Following the request of Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District, Deputy Representative Sergey Smetanyuk coordinated an extended work team session on the organization of Russian-Ukrainian Interregional Forum in Ural Federal District. The meeting was dedicated to rounding up the preparations for the forum and to defining the tasks for the remaining time period. The forum is to be held on September 28-30, 2010 in the Plenipotentiary Representative’s residence in Yekaterinburg. The most important events will take place on September 29, 2010. The

The former director of SV-Barrisol has been shot in Yekaterinburg, Alexander Shulga, the official representative of the Investigative Committee’s Investigative Division under Sverdlovsk Region’s department of the Russian Federation public prosecutions office, confirmed today. It is rumored that the victim in question is a man named Andrei Sokolovskiy. The businessman’s body was found by his mother in Technicheskaya St. SV-Barrisol is the official dealer of Normalu S.A. in Yekaterinburg and the Urals and Siberia Region; the company offers its customers Barrisol stretched ceilings (made in

OOO Space Company, a computer store, was faced with an administrative lawsuit after running an ad banner that featured the images of cannabis leaves and the caption that read, ‘… A legal trip to Amsterdam’. The legal action was taken by the officers from Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, with charges based on Article 6.13 of the Russian Federation Administrative Offense Code, the spokesperson for the Service reports. The Article in question presumes offenders should be prosecuted for propagating drugs, mind-altering substances, or their precursor. The

Despite the 38% revenue growth in the first half of 2010 (the figures reached $6.38bn), Evraz Group did not resume making profit. The enterprise’s net loss amounted to $270m in January-June 2010 due to assets re-evaluation and their resulting depreciation, RBC daily reports. The company’s affairs don’t look as good as they could since Evraz failed to leave its losses in the past: even though these losses shrank by 3.7 times in the first half of the year, they still come to the impressive $270m.

Moscow Federal Arbitration Court supported the rulings pronounced in courts of lower instances and thus stated that the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s decision to stop the case involving Danone Industry had been both legal and well-grounded. The news was reported by the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s press officer. Danone’s advertisements promoting Actimel (a milk-based drink) as well as the company’s website, featured images of underage children and their parents who used the product on a daily basis. Now OAO Wimm Bill Dann felt that Actimel advertisements created an impression that these