Deputy Head of the Russian Federation Government Igor Sechin is going to chair a governmental meeting dedicated to the country’s metallurgical business development in Yekaterinburg on February 19, 2010, Head of Pipe Industry Development Fund Alexander Deyneko announced at a briefing on Wednesday. Deyneko said the meeting would be devoted to the industrial branch’s post-recession development and the measures that could help upgrade the business, RIA Novosti reports.

Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities and Ural State Assay Surveillance Inspection detected some violations in the way OOO Brilliant and ZAO Supermarket Kirovskiy dealt in precious metals and stones, the spokesperson for the prosecution authorities reports. The inspection of Brilliant revealed that, despite the existing legal norms, the company did not inform Rosfinmonitoring (the state watchdog responsible for counteracting laundering proceeds from criminal activity and terrorist financing) of its transactions. The public prosecution authorities found out that Brilliant failed

A twenty-five-year-old woman was detained by the police in Fan Fan shopping mall in Yekaterinburg on Thursday. The woman, who is a Russian subject, had fifty grams of heroin on her, says Head of Sverdlovsk Region Administration of the Federal Drug Turnover Control Service’s Information and PR Group Elena Issayeva. The detainee claimed that a thirty-year-old woman had sold the drugs to her. This person was also detained in the mall.

‘The management of Bank VTB decided to lay off about 10% of actual employees and cut down on vacancies in both the head office and the subsidiaries. The decision regarding the redundancies was made within the framework of the bank’s expense-cutting program adopted by the Board in November 2008. Under this program, a ban on taking in any more staff has already been introduced,’ the bank’s Yekaterinburg subsidiary reported. ‘The economic recession made it necessary to work more effectively, so some of our processes were improved thanks to the new operational and business methods and launch of

The top executive of MEGA Yekaterinburg Michael Nilsson has recently left office. The spokesperson for the shopping mall reports Nilsson was appointed the company’s Regional Director. Lilia Nenasheva, former Deputy CEO and Marketing Director, is going to become the new head of MEGA Yekaterinburg. MEGA opened its first store in Yekaterinburg in October 2006.