The representatives of Sverdlovsk Region division and Revdinskiy and Nizhneserginskiy departments of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) carried out a scheduled field check of Nizhneserginskiy metal goods plant (NLMK Group’s member). The inspection detected a number of grave health legislation offenses, all of which were related to sanitary arrangements aimed at making the working conditions better and safer. The plant’s recent reconstruction that brought about some new production technologies was assumed to have improved the employees’ labor conditions. However, the

‘We are currently looking into a case involving the local taxi companies; the offense consists in violating the existing advertising laws. In this case, the companies have been declared guilty. We are also considering the question of whether Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport legally carried out a tender and selected Taxi-Gorod as ‘the airport’s exclusive hauler’,’ Head of Sverdlovsk Region division of the Russian Federation Federal Antimonopoly Service Tatiana Kolotova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘Following the tender, Taxi-Gorod was given a special parking lot on the

It was discovered that VUZ-Bank (Life Financial Group) violated the regulations related to informational transparency on the stock market. This is why Ural Federal District’s division of the Federal Financial Market Service of the Russian Federation ruled that VUZ-Bank would have to face administrative liability and pay a fine. The fine comes to 700,000 RUR.

ERGO Rus (an insurance company and member of the German ERGO Group) decided to stop signing new voluntary medical insurance contracts for the time being. ‘The current risks on the Russian medical services market and the state of the Russian laws won’t give an insurer a chance to work efficiently and offer the customers high quality service comparable with the European insurance standards,’ the company explains. ERGO Rus declared, however, that it could guarantee full compliance with all the obligations resulting from the already existing agreements. The company operates its subsidiaries in

A verdict of ‘guilty’ was pronounced upon the head of TOO AstanaEnergoPromStroy & Co Adkham Mirsogatov, who is believed to allow the completion of the building and assembly jobs at the fourth power-generating unit of Beloyarskaya nuclear plant in Sverdlovsk Region without a license, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities reports. Zarechniy district court considered the evidence provided by the public prosecutor from Beloyarskiy district’s prosecution department and decided that Adkham Mirsogatov, who was the General Director of AstanaEnergoPromStroy &