Enel completed the regional stage of its PlayEnergy project in May 2010. ENEL Group’s international education/entertainment initiative has been implemented in Sverdlovsk Region for the second time this year through the involvement of Reftinskaya state district power plant (Enel OGK-5) and the schools of Reftinskiy and of some neighboring settlements. All in all, over 1,500 children and young people (school-goers aged 11-17 and students of Asbest polytechnic vocational school) could join the world of energy with ENEL. PlayEnergy provides students and teachers with free materials for organizing

Sberbank of Russia’s Ural branch voiced its suspicions regarding Omega Group Holding: the bank claims the company is trying to avoid paying off the loans Sberbank gave to OOO Omega Spirits Group, OOO Noviye Restorany, Magnum strong drinks chain store, OOO Omega Opt Trading, and OOO Zolotoy Reserve, Sberbank’s recent release states. Omega Group enterprises have been using Sberbank’s loans since 2004. So far, six loan agreements have been signed with the bank. The first overdue debt issues popped up in April 2010, with the sum of such debts reaching 1.26 billion RUR by June 28, 2010. Sberbank

OAO Severstal and OAO Uralvagonzavod reached a compromise on the rolled metal goods delivery in the third quarter of 2010. ‘Under this agreement, the two parties reached an understanding and agreed on the same prices that were set for the second quarter of the year. The monthly deliveries volume was fixed at up to 2,000 tons of metal,’ Severstal reports. The deliveries in question will comprise some metal boiler sheets for Uralvagonzavod. In fact, Severstal only made one shipment to Uralvagonzavod in the second quarter, the company’s press officer explained. The two parties then signed a