Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court started the hearing of the claim laid by Sverdlovenergosbyt against Gora Volchikha Ski Resort on November 12, 2009. The electricity supplier wants Gora Volchikha to pay it 897,890 RUR for the electricity consumed in February-May 2009; the sum also covers the interest charged for using the money that was legally Sverdlovenergosbyt’s. No representatives of the defendant turned up in court on the day of the preliminary hearing. As a matter of fact, this isn’t the first time the ski resort has been involved in a lawsuit as a defendant. Just a few days earlier,

Yekaterinburg’s Ordzhonikidzevskiy district court pronounced its sentence upon Dmitriy Egorov, 23, who had been charged with copyright infringement and illegal access to digital information. The young man was sentenced to thirty months in prison, Non-Commercial Partnership of Software Suppliers reports. Dmitriy Egorov was found guilty of large-scale copyright abuse that damaged the copyright holders, namely, Microsoft Corporation, ZAO 1S, Autodesk, and Adobe Systems Incorporated. The man had advertised ‘Computer Service’ through the local media; on September 9, 2009, some law-enforcement

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court keeps looking into the claim laid by Sberbank of Russia against Pnevmostroymashina and PSM-Gidravlika. Sberbank insists that the defendants should pay it 179,663,452.81 RUR on loan agreements; the sum in question is made up of the main debt, the interest, and the fines. The plaintiff also wants to have the two companies’ mortgaged property arrested. The mortgaged assets comprise five buildings and five land allotments belonging to Pnevmostroymashina. Pnevmostroymashina, in its turn, isn’t trying to dispute the main debt or the interest. As for the fines,