Evraz Group is now looking into the reasons for a recent emergency at West Siberian Iron & Steel Plant that left three people injured. A small explosion with a splash of hot iron occurred at the plant’s oxygen converter shop 1 at 10:24 AM on February 8, 2010. Three workers were injured as a result. The rescue teams and the company’s management arrived at the scene at once and took all the measures necessary to cope with the problem. ‘According to our preliminary data, all the operations involving the converter in question (that is, the warm-up, the charge of the furnace with scrap metal,

Ural Airlines announced recently that the company’s fuel fees for international flights would be reduced by 50%. The discount covers the summer destinations most popular with Yekaterinburg dwellers. Thus the fuel fee for Yekaterinburg-Varna and Yekaterinburg-Burgas flights will only come to ?40 and that for Iraklion and Saloniki will come to ?45. The fees for flights to Pula, Tivat, and Tel Aviv will amount to ?45, ?45, and ?60, respectively. The tickets are available at the company’s booking offices between February 15, 2010 and March 15, 2010. The airline started selling tickets for the

Toyota’s Russian representation reported recently that the concern was going to call about 160,000 automobiles off the Russian market because of the possible accelerator pedal defects. The cars in question are the IQ, Yaris, Auris, Corolla, Verso, Avensis, and RAV4 makes produced in 2005-2010. The car owners will soon be requested to take their vehicles to the dealers’ offices for examination and possibly for repairs. ‘I am truly sorry about this worrying situation. Toyota has always placed its customers first, whatever the circumstances,’ says head of Toyota’s Russian representation Takeshi

The Bank of Russia came up with a list of the Russian Federation constituencies and municipalities whose rating comes to at least B-/B3. According to the bank’s official website, the list comprises thirty-eight Russian regions, including Sverdlovsk Region.

Rus, the nongovernmental retirement fund, won the court case against OAO AlfaStrakhovaniye, the insurance company. The plaintiff wanted to be paid the insurance money resulting from the company’s financial risk insurance agreement, the spokesperson for the retirement fund reports. Rus signed this financial risk insurance agreement with AlfaStrakhovaniye on April 1, 2008. An insurance event occurred, but the insurer failed to meet its contractual obligations, so Rus took the case to Moscow Arbitration Court, demanding that the indemnity be paid. Having looked into the case, the court ruled