It was reported at VSMPO-Avisma’s annual general meeting that the company’s net profit decreased by 15.3 times in the year 2009 compared with the year 2008, that is, down to 175 million RUR. Besides, the corporation’s production output dropped by 26.5%. The company’s stockholders decided that the dividend for the year 2009 should amount to 1.5 RUR per share, whereas a year earlier, the per-share dividend came to 23.14 RUR.

OAO Ural Instrument-Making Plant was included in the list of companies whose debt to the Russian Federation budget reached more than 1 million RUR by June 15, 2010. This news is available via the official website of Russia’s Federal Tax Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division.

Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport is going to pay 35.7% less tax to Sverdlovsk Region’s budget this year. This drop covers for a 100% decrease in profit tax payments, Koltsovo Airport’s General Director Evgeniy Chudnovskiy announced at a regional recession-fighting committee’s meeting. Chudnovskiy explained the lack of profit tax resulted from the fact that Aviaprad Airlines’ debt to the airport had been written off at the time.

OAO The Polar Urals-The Industrial Urals Corporation is not going to declare any share dividend for the year 2009. The decision was taken by the corporation’s stockholders at the AGM on June 26, 2010. In fact, no dividend was paid to the shareholders for the year 2008 either.

The public prosecution authorities of Sverdlovsk Region detected and prevented some illegal gambling activity in Yekaterinburg’s Park House and Greenwich shopping malls this June. 123 pieces of gaming and gambling equipment were confiscated from the two malls, and the gambling activity coordinators are now involved in the administrative offense lawsuits, with charges based on Article 14.1 (part 2) of the Russian Federation Administrative Offense Code (unlicensed entrepreneurial activity). The public prosecution authorities report about ninety illegal gambling clubs have so far been found in