The trade union of UC RUSAL’s Severouralsk bauxite mine (SUBR) is to carry out a protest picket in front of the municipal prosecution authorities’ office on April 30, 2010. The protesters’ main demand is that the prosecutor Dmitriy Famutdinov leave office after he failed to respond to the violation of workers’ rights, the Independent Trade Union of Russian Miners reports. The protesters are planning to hold banners with slogans like, ‘RUSAL! Do respect workers’ rights and interests!’, ‘Let’s protect trade union activists! United Russia! Do vote FOR changes in Labor Code’s Article 374!’,

MTS, one of Russia’s Big Three mobile operators, is going to lay off workers in its Ural branch. UrBC found out that about forty local employees have already received letters notifying them of the redundancies. MTS announced early in March 2010 that the Ural branch’s call center would be relocated from Yekaterinburg to Samara in order to reduce the company’s outgoings. The workers were informed about the changes two months before these changes came into full effect. MTS’s Ural branch currently employs about 600 people.

On May 15, 2010, the StartupPoint forum will be held in Yekaterinburg for the first time in order to provide a communication platform for the local investors and startup companies. The event is supported by SKB Kontur (the federal IT company), AKSIT Association, and IT-eburg website. The forum is to take place in the Moskovskaya Gorka Hotel at 131 Moskovskaya St at 2:00 PM. StartupPoint is open to all the startups willing to interest the potential investors in their projects, and it’s absolutely free. The only thing a company has to do is apply for the forum in advance and be willing to

The annual general meeting of LSR Group’s OAO Betfor concrete goods plant’s shareholders resulted in the decision not to pay the dividend for the year 2009 on the plant’s type A ordinary registered shares or preference registered shares. In addition, the stockholders decided that the BOD members were not getting any end-of-year bonuses.

The Kinofox cinema’s equipment was confiscated after the company had demonstrated Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, and The Book of Eli motion pictures to its audience without paying anything to the soundtrack composers, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities reports. OOO Kinofox is based in Kamensk-Uralskiy, Sverdlovsk Region. It was revealed that the movie theater had not been paying to the composers of music for Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, Alvin & The Chipmunks-2, Black Lightning and The Book of Eli since December 2009. The films were demonstrated to the viewers on