OAO Svyaznoy Ural has promised to compensate the damage done to the company’s customers by a dishonest employee. ‘The employees’ unlawful actions get tracked by our security service and the control departments of our partner companies. Our customers will receive their compensation,’ Svyaznoy Ural informed UrBC. Meanwhile, Yekaterinburg’s Leninskiy district court’s ruling regarding the corporate fraud within Svyaznoy came into effect. The lawsuit involved charges of fraud related to loan-giving practices of one of the mobile service chain store’s employees. The court determined that the

Yekaterinburg’s Oktyabrskiy district court made OAO Koltsovo Airport stop violating the rights of the disabled. Sverdlovsk Region’s prosecution authorities checked the airport’s compliance with the law for the protection of the disabled and detected a number of problems there. It was determined that despite the federal legislation requirements and construction norms, the staircase leading to the airport’s VIP terminal does not have any protective rails, so the motion impaired passengers cannot enter the business class terminal safely. What is more, the bathrooms of the VIP terminal and of the

The head of Ural Federal District’s division of the Federal Strong Drinks Market Regulating Service Dmitriy Lebedev declared OOO Omega Spirits Group had committed numerous offenses in the past. ‘The company now owes millions and cannot pay its creditors back. It’s easy to say that the cause of its insolvency is the ban our Service imposed on the group’s license. This ban is, in fact, quite a story. All of this company’s problems are rooted in its way of doing business,’ Lebedev announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘OOO Omega Spirits Group turned to be a multiple offender, and now

Yekaterinburg customs drew up a performance report for the first half of 2010. 1,400 local legal entities got involved in foreign trade in January to June 2010, which was 15.6% more than in the first half of 2009. These companies filled in 26,700 cargo manifests (against 20,500 manifests a year earlier). The trade turnover amounted to $3.4bn, which was 28% more than in the first half of 2009. Ordzhonikidzevskiy district’s customs had the greatest increase in foreign trade turnover over the given period, that is, 29%. The total trade turnover within the Yekaterinburg customs area rose by 22.3%

Ural Airlines came up with a performance report for the first half of 2010. The company rendered its services to 34% more passengers and operated 35% more flights than in the first half of 2009: all in all, 753,420 people used the airline in January-June 2010 and 7,020 flights were operated, of which 3,680 flights were domestic ones, 2,050 flights were international ones, and 1,280 flights were operated within the CIS. As for the passenger turnover, 366,880 passengers used the carrier’s domestic flights in the first half of 2010, which was 36% more than a year earlier. 270,620 people took