RU-CENTER turned down the request of Talisman, the Urals-based language school chain, for a Russian language-based domain despite the fact that Talisman is a registered trademark belonging to the applicant. The domain center claims the language school’s application can’t be accepted because the registered domain name must reproduce the trademark in Cyrillic alphabet very precisely, symbol for symbol. ‘The fact that we haven’ been allowed to register a Cyrillic domain was not a real blow to the company’s management. We only wanted to use the domain талисман.рф as a second web address mirroring

A meeting of Rostourism Hotel Certification Committee took place in Moscow on Thursday. The committee members considered the applications of hotels wishing to get into two-, three-, four-, and five-star categories. For one, Tymen-based Eurasia Business Hotel and Yekaterinburg-based Angelo Airport Hotel were given the four-star status and Yekaterinburg-based Green Park Hotel and Sverdlovsk Congress Hotel got 3 stars each.

All the issues related to upgrading Sverdlovsk Region-based Reftinskaya power station (Enel OGK-5) and introducing the new ways of storing and recycling production waste were dealt with at a recent meeting chaired by the deputy of region’s Legislative Assembly’s House of Representatives Nikolai Krupin. The meeting was attended by mayors of Asbest, Berezovskiy, Malyshev, Reftinskiy, and Sukhoi Log, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Energy and Communal Housing Services reports. ‘The power station is currently transferring all the pulp into its second ash disposal area, but

NOMOS-BANK recently confirmed the fact that they co-invested some money in Vladimir Frolov’s new banking project – a settlement bank. According to NOMOS-BANK, the settlement bank will be based on the existing URAN Commercial Bank; the Central Bank of Russia has already agreed to the acquisition of the latter by the investors. NOMOS-BANK is going to buy a majority shareholding in URAN, while Vladimir Frolov is buying a blocking shareholding,’ the bank reports. According to Kommersant, NOMOS-BANK now owns 75% of URAN Commercial Bank. Actually, the bank will probably be renamed, so its services

MMK AtakaşMetalurjiSanayi, TicaretveLimanIsletmeciligi A.S (MMK Atakaş, the asset of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works) signed a long-term financing agreement with a number of crediting organizations recently. The financing is needed to put up an integrated metallurgical works in Turkey and the accompanying infrastructure. The construction began in October 2007 and will probably have been completed by the end of 2010. The project’s estimated capacity comes to 2.3 million tons of flat rolled stock a year; the produce will be delivered onto both the domestic and the export markets.