Today the 10th Russian-German St. Petersburg Dialogue Forum finished up with a session where Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented their speeches to the audience. The spokesperson for Governor of Sverdlovsk Region says some reports on the results of the forum were also made by Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov and the forum’s German co-Chairman, retired Prime Minister Lothar de Messier. The day before, Zubkov encouraged the forum attendees to draw up a list of proposals that could really improve life in both countries. For one, the

The 6th Russian Defence Expo — 2010 exhibition opens in Nizhniy Tagil on July 14-17, 2010.The event is supported by SKB-Bank as usual. This year, over 250 Russian enterprises from twenty-nine Russian regions are expected to take part in the event, and over 200 foreign experts are expected to visit the exhibition. In addition, 250 companies from thirty-five different countries will probably pay a visit – this is 30% more than a year earlier. The exhibition is to be held at the firing ground located by Staratel settlement which belongs to Nizhniy Tagil Metal Testing Institute. Apart from this

Under the recently signed septilateral agreement, Sverdlovsk Region is going to get more than 14 billion RUR worth of investments, the region’s Governor Alexander Misharin announced at the close of the Russian-German Energy Forum on July 15, 2010. In the course of the forum itself, the top executives of UMMC Holding and Siemens AG made detailed reports on their companies’ current and future projects. UMMC Holding’s General Director Andrei Kositsin said, for instance, that his company was planning to put up two coal stations. One of them, Demidovskaya thermal power plant, will be located in

InnoProm 2010 exhibition and forum starts in Yekaterinburg on July 15, 2010. Over 500 enterprises and organizations from twenty-five different countries are expected to participate; the exhibition will be opened by Russian Vice-Premier Igor Sechin. The agenda of the forum provides for a number of official ceremonies, some debates and presentation sessions, business meetings and coaching workshops. Some round table discussions and plenary sessions are also expected; they will be attended by heads of large Russian and foreign companies and will be dedicated to ways of launching innovations in

Rosselkhoznadzor (the Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service) imposes a temporary ban on the import of animal products from fourteen Finnish companies on July 23, 2010. This ban touches upon six plants of Russia’s largest dairy foods supplier Valio, RBC reports. Apart from Valio, the ban also applies to Ingman Ice Cream, a well-known ice cream manufacturer. The limits were imposed because the Russian inspectors found a number of violations at the Finnish enterprises when they examined them. No more details about the problems are given by the Service. The Finnish media say

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevitch presented a report at the governmental committee on regional development’s meeting in Volgograd. The meeting was chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin; the Deputy Prime Ministers Igor Shuvalov, Dmitriy Kozak, Alexei Kudrin, and Sergey Sobyanin were also present, as were the Minister for Regional Development Viktor Basargin and Minister for Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina. The discussion largely dwelt upon the construction industry’s desperate need to cut on the administrative barriers. Mikhail Yurevitch spoke about the state