ZAO AMUR, a car manufacturer, was recently included in the list of companies that owe more than 1 million RUR to the Russian Federation budget; the data used were valid as of June 15, 2010. The news is now available via the official website of Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Russian Federation Federal Tax Service. The car factory deals in manufacturing of trucks, road cleaning machinery, and multi-purpose vehicles.

ZAO Lando Auto Center was recently included in the list of companies that owe more than 1 million RUR to the Russian Federation budget; the data used were valid as of June 15, 2010. The news is now available via the official website of Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Russian Federation Federal Tax Service. Lando is currently the official dealer of FAW, Foton, and BAW trucks as well as a representative of VAZ, IzhAvto, and VIZ automobiles in the Urals.

On July 1, 2010, Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service is going to look in the case involving ZAO BNP Paribas Bank and OOO IncorMedia. The two companies are suspected of violating Article 18 of the Advertising Act, as they allegedly practiced sending out text messages with advertisements to mobile phone users without the subscribers’ consent, the FAS’s press officer told UrBC. In fact, the FAS earlier found L’Etoile cosmetics chain store, Limerence shopping center, and OAO Bank24.ru guilty of the same offense.

The Moscow (Vnukovo Airport)-Yekaterinburg flight 303 that was to have been operated by ZAO Nebesniy Express Sky Express at 8:30 PM today was cancelled, the airport’s interactive announcement board said.

The Justice of Peace looked into the evidence provided by Nizhniy Tagil’s Tagilstroyevskiy district public prosecutor and returned the verdict of guilty upon a twenty-four-year-old administrator of a local entertainment center. The accused was originally charged with copyright infringement that affected Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Systems. It was detected by the court that Alexander Botanov had illegitimately bought, stored, and transported pirated copies of Windows XP Professional SP3 Russian Version, Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Russian Version, and other kinds of software products on

‘The idea behind Innoprom was to make this an annual event. Budget money has been invested in this project, so we need this investment to pay off. Any kind of cooperation and attracting serious investors would be very much welcomed. The exhibition’s budget is very impressive, which is why neither a single company nor the regional budget can fully finance the project on its own. We need to consolidate our efforts,’ Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Industry and Science Alexander Petrov announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. Innoprom 2010, the Ural International Industry &

MRSK Urala, the Urals’ interregional electricity distribution network supervisor, had its top managers rotated recently. It was decided at the annual general meeting that the company’s BOD Chairman and General Director of MRSK Holding Nikolai Shvets should leave; the same was true of I.D.M Electricity Distribution Management (Cyprus) Limited Moscow representation’s director Konstantin Shevchenko, OAO FSK EES First Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board Sergey Ivanov, head of I.D.M Electricity Distribution Management (Cyprus) Limited Moscow representation’s Corporate Department Svetlana

The unhappy customers keep placing their complaints against a number of travel agents like OOO Alfa-Travel, OOO Zheltiy Chemodan, OOO Fond Mira Group, OOO TBK Inturline, and OOO Severnaya Palmira with Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Rospotrebnadzor’s Central Yekaterinburg Department. The customers believe their rights have been violated in that the agents failed to provide them with some essential information. Also, they appear to inflict upon the customers the terms of contract that infringe on their legal rights, the spokesperson for Rospotrebnadzor reports. Following an administrative

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevitch encouraged the local inventors to cooperate with the region’s technological park and promised to help them get their innovations patented, the Governor’s press officer reports. Meanwhile, a group of Chelyabinsk Region delegates, headed by Minister for Industry and Natural Resources Valeriy Prudskiy, visited Israel last week and therefore had a chance to look into the country’s rich experience in making scientific advances commercially viable. Upon their return, the delegates presented their report to Mikhail Yurevitch, who said Chelyabinsk

Following Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevitch’s request, the Ministry for Economic Development prepared a list of land allotments that could serve as new industrial sites, the Governor told the reporters after a cabinet meeting. The list is created in order to make sure the regional authorities can always present their available territories to the potential investors. It also contains information on all the infrastructure items like roads, oil and gas pipelines, and power resources. The catalogue-style register is now available in Russian and English and will later be translated

OAO SKB-Bank paid the 12th coupon profit and fully retired its first bond issue. SKB-Bank first went through with its 1-billion-ruble bond issue at MICEX on June 21, 2007. The bank then set a record of sorts among the other regional banks, as the first coupon’s interest rate was determined at the record-breaking, lowest-ever level of 9.75% a year. The bank’s bonds were placed on quotation list A1 and included in the Bank of Russia’s Lombard List. To date, SKB-Bank has completely fulfilled all of its obligations concerning its 01 bond issue. In addition, the bank also went through with another

Mikhail Fedorov was re-elected Rector of Ural State University of Economics (USUE) by 112 votes out of 119. The voting by secret ballot took place among the university conference delegates. Six people voted against the candidate, and one voting paper was declared invalid. Fedorov was chosen over the other running candidate, Dean of the Global Economics & Finance Department Nadezhda Surnina. ‘Prior to the voting, Nadezhda Surnina gave a short speech, the basic meaning of which was that Mikhail Fedorov should remain Rector because he has a lot of experience in the field as well as great

Viktor Maslakov was appointed CEO Skolkovo Fund for Area Development. The decision was taken by President of New Technologies Design & Commercialization Center’s Development Fund Viktor Vekselberg, says ZAO Renova-StroyGroup’s press officer. Viktor Maslakov, who has an MBA and a PhD in Economics, is currently employed in the capacity of Renova-StroyGroup Management Company’s BOD Chairman. He used to hold posts in Sverdlovsk Region’s governmental bodies and Yekaterinburg city council and also ran a number of private companies. Besides, Maslakov was a scientific advisor at the Institute of

The net profit of OAO Gazprombank plunged by 81% in the year 2009 compared with the year 2008, that is, from 17.56 billion RUR down to 3.34 billion RUR. The bank explains these losses had to do with increased profit tax payments and greater foreign currency transaction expenses. In the latter case, the expenses partially grew because the bank’s foreign currency assets depreciated due to the growing ruble exchange rate. Finally, the bank made a smaller one-time dividend profit on daughter enterprises investments.

A bankruptcy application has been placed with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court by ZAO AO Avto Land recently, the spokesperson for the court informed UrBC. It has been reported that the company’s liquidation committee made the decision to declare the business insolvent. At the moment, Avtoland deals in sales of Ford, Mazda, Volvo, and Mitsubishi Motors automobiles. The company runs show rooms in Yekaterinburg, Ufa, and Magnitogorsk.

The agreement on manufacturing French trucks in Novouralsk-based AMUR car factory that Sverdlovsk Region signed with Renault Trucks management have led to some unexpected consequences. The region’s Minister for International and Foreign Economic Relations Alexander Kharlov announced today that Renault’s workers, supported by the trade union, started protesting against the French company’s decision. ‘The news on the recent agreement reached France, and the trade unions resented: they cannot understand why Russian enterprises are getting orders when France is struggling with overwhelming

The electronic interline agreement signed by Ural Airlines (U6) and ALITALIA (AZ) now came in full effect. According to Ural Airlines’ press officer, a passenger can now get a single e-ticket for any connecting flights operated by both airlines. The itinerary receipt is printed on Ural Airlines’ official form. The new offer means that the ticket-getting procedure grew much easier for the transit passengers; also, they can now check in their luggage only once. Under the interline agreement, customers can get tickets from Yekaterinburg to scores of European cities, including the Italian ones,

The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development had its QUIK-Broker Internet trading system upgraded recently. The innovations made the system’s server and customer interaction performance much better, which will considerably speed up the transfer of data from the server onto the users’ computers. The bank also provided its customers with a new version of QUIK 5.17 used for online transactions. The changes mainly consist in the additional options of customizing a user’s virtual workplace. These additions are expected to make UBRD’s QUIK customers work even more efficient. To sign up for

Lufthansa Airlines cancelled its Yekaterinburg-Frankfurt flight that was supposed to have taken off in Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport at 7:10 AM on June 24, 2010. The carrier’s Yekaterinburg representation did not give the reporters any reason for calling the flight off but did admit the decision had been taken in advance. The airline also claims all the passengers were notified in advance.

Evraz Group might stop the steel production process at its Czech plant Vitkovice Steel on July 1, 2010. Evraz cannot seem to reach an agreement with ArcelorMittal Ostrava on crude iron prices, and crude iron is the primary raw material for steel production, Evraz representative explained to Kommersant. In case the parties fail to come to a compromise before July, the Vitkovice-based plant will stop buying iron and manufacturing steel. At the same time, Vitkovice Steel will keep up with its rolled goods production. Evraz Group bought Evraz Vitkovice Steel in 2005. The plant currently produces