‘As far as the building at 3 Vysotskiy St. in Yekaterinburg is concerned, UKS-Invest was the customer for the project and Avtofrans was the investor. The construction was completed in the middle of 2008, but a few problems were revealed during the commissioning process. These problems still haven’t been eliminated,’ Avtofrans court representative Valeria Chicherina said to UrBC. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court conducted a hearing of the claim laid by UKS-Invest against Avtofrans and Avtoprodiks on December 14, 2009. The plaintiff demands that their deal be declared invalid and that the

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin met the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary to Russia Georg Gilian. The Ambassador’s visit to the Urals had to do with the opening of the Hungarian Office in Yekaterinburg. This is a cultural and information agency designed to gradually become one of the major contributors to the two nations’ international cooperation and co-adaptation. Alexander Misharin suggested looking into a number of possible joint projects, particularly the ones that would benefit the social field. These projects are related to road construction (for

‘We are not going to stop renewing our aircraft. In 2010, we’ll keep replacing our TU154B airplanes with A320 and A321 ones,’ General Director of Ural Airlines Sergey Skuratov said in the course of a solemn opening ceremony of the company’s new office in Yekaterinburg. The ceremony that took place on December 12, 2009 was actually attended by the Russian Federation Transport Minister Igor Levitin and Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin. Ural Airlines’ GD spoke about the latest data available as to the company’s passenger turnover in 2009 (the figure went up by 2% against the year

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court began the hearing of the claim laid by the Bank of Russia’s Main Division in Sverdlovsk Region (on behalf of the Central Bank of Russia as a whole) against Ural Innovational Commercial Bank (UIC Bank) and Alexei Bagaryakov, Galina Devonina, and Nadezhda Zykova. The claim is related to how the defendants applied the consequences stemming from the invalidity of some legal transactions. According to the bank’s official website, Galina Devonina owns a 19.9% shareholding in the bank’s authorized capital and Nadezhda Zykova owns a 5.1% shareholding. Alexei

‘When the management company of Alatyr mall failed the midnight opening of Media Markt’s new store in Yekaterinburg it made it clear to everyone that the company does not care about the customers at all. The management company’s negligence and lack of professionalism are quite obvious to me. I feel if anything like this is about to happen, the organizers must do their best to inform the public about the cancellation and to try and minimize their dissatisfaction by compensating the potential customers somehow,’ President of Territoria (Association of Regional Medical Insurers) Maxim