The employees of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) offered to donate blood for the victims of a major fire accident in Perm-based Lame Horse Club. The municipal health authorities and MMK also declared that they were ready to send their combustion experts to Perm if this should be necessary. The fire broke out in Lame Horse Club in Kuibyshev St at about 1 AM last Saturday when the club was holding its 8th-year anniversary party. Out of the 500-square-meter building, 400 sq m burned down to ashes. According to the preliminarily available data, some fireworks exploded during a

‘Giving Enel OGK-5 a new head would be the right thing to do. I’d say the company might have considered dismissing Anatoly Kopsov at least partly because of his plans to introduce a dry ash handling system at Reftinskaya state district power plant,’ says Chairman of the International Socio-Environmental Union’s Sverdlovsk Region division Vladimir Terekhov. In the meantime, RBC Daily reports the current head of Enel OGK-5 Anatoly Kopsov might really resign soon. ‘Following all the environmentalists’ protests and the scandal around the introduction of the dry ash handling system, the power

Expert-Ural’s analysts came up with their monthly rating of Yekaterinburg-based banks. The rating is based on the local banks’ performance as of November 1, 2009. According to this rating, Koltso Urala Commercial Bank was given the 8th position rather than the 9th position it was given on October 1, 2009. The bank’s improved development indicators also helped the company improve its position in the national bank rating, the spokesperson for Koltso Urala says. ‘Koltso Urala intends to develop and grow rapidly. Our main challenge for the coming year is to be at the top of Sverdlovsk Region’s

Evgeniy Chudnovskiy was appointed General Director of Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg. The decision to this extent was made in the course of an extraordinary general meeting on December 4, 2009. Chudnovskiy won 52% of votes among all of those who attended the meeting to settle this issue. According to the shareholders’ decision, the newly appointed GD is going to remain in office for three years. The airport’s former General Director Kirill Shubin resigned in November 2009 to become the Director of Sverdlovsk Region State Order Department. Evgeniy Chudnovskiy was born in Moscow on May 25,

The General Director of Enel OGK-5 Anatoly Kopsov might soon resign and be succeeded by RAO UES of Russia’s former Strategic Director and former head of Rosenergo Dmitriy Akhanov, RBC Daily reports. The company explained to the newspaper that Kopsov’s contract was valid through April 30, 2010. This was the only comment provided by Enel on this issue. Among its various assets, Enel OGK-5 comprises Reftinskaya and Sredneuralskaya state district power plants, both of which are based in Sverdlovsk Region. ‘The former head of Mosenergo Anatoly Kopsov was on good terms with Eduard Rossel,

‘The opening of KomsoMALL Trade & Entertainment Center has been scheduled for the last quarter of 2010. The dates have been set several times, so the final one had to provide a substation time reserve just in case,’ Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg Viktor Konteev’s press officer Ilona Starodubtseva said to UrBC. PRIZMA Trade & Entertainment Center will also get opened in the fourth quarter of 2010. Both malls were in fact supposed to have been opened in 2009, but their investors’ financial troubles made the timely implementation of the project very difficult.