Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevitch informed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about the current situation on the region’s labor market. ‘The unemployment is not as bad now as it used to be, but things still don’t look as good as we’d like. We had 69,000 jobless at the peak of the recession; now the figure comes to 48,000. It’s an impressive drop. The economy keeps getting better, so the unemployment rate keeps going down,’ the Governor said. Mikhail Yurevitch’s only concern is the machine-building industry. ‘We do not have very impressive growth figures here, even though the

The arrears of wages at some of Chelyabinsk Region’s enterprises are only a temporary phenomenon, the region’s Governor Mikhail Yurevitch said at today’s meeting with the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Chelyabinsk. ‘We do have some arrears of wages in a few cases. The thing is, the arrears are very small and only come to about 15 million RUR; what is more, all these problem enterprises are now under my personal supervision. Our plenipotentiary representative of the Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District is also personally monitoring the situation. So we keep communicating

The number of complaints placed by the local citizens against various banks has soared over the years 2006-2009, says Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Rospotrebnadzor (the federal human wellbeing and consumer rights protection service). For one, the service received 90 written pleas in 2009 compared with only 2 three years earlier. According to Rospotrebnadzor, customers are unhappy with OOO Home Credit & Finance Bank, ZAO Bank Russian Standard, OAO Alfa-Bank, OAO AKB Rosbank, OOO Renaissance Capital Commercial Bank, OAO Bank 24.ru, OOO Rusfinance Bank, and a number of other money-lending

The share dividend determined by OAO Concern Kalina for the company’s stockholders for the first half of 2010 may actually be the same as the one paid in the second half of 2009. The company’s BOD suggested at an EGM on July 22, 2010 that the stockholders set the ordinary share dividend at 10.66 RUR. The same amount of money was paid per share in the second half of 2009. All in all, 103.55 million RUR was directed to dividend payments then.

OOO IKEA Mos, the company that runs MEGA family-style shopping and entertainment centers in Russia, came up with the annual report for the year 2009. It turns out the organization finished the year off with 2.22 billion RUR worth of losses against 3.4 billion RUR worth of losses in 2008, Interfax says. As of June 30, 2010, OOO IKEA Mos ran thirteen MEGA stores in Russia, of which three are based in Moscow and two are located in Saint Petersburg; also, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhniy Novgorod, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Ufa have one store each.

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court ruled on June 30, 2010 that ZAO AMUR car factory based in Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, must undergo bankruptcy proceedings for eighteen months. The ruling was made within the hearing of case А60-12994/2009-С11. Evgeniy Fedotovskikh, a member of Ural Self-Regulatory Organization of Bankruptcy Commissioners, was appointed the company’s trustee in bankruptcy.

A group of German diplomats and architects presented their design of the building which will house Germany’s Consulate-General in Yekaterinburg to the city’s Mayor Arkadiy Chernetskiy, the city council’s press service reports. ‘In the future, a whole consulate block will be put up next to our building, to host the diplomatic representations of many other foreign states. The German consulate is going to be the ‘first robin’ here, which is why we pay so much attention to the design,’ the city council reports. However, Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy found the design that was proposed