A fatal accident at Evraz Group’s Yestyuninskaya mine left one person dead this morning, head of Sverdlovsk Region Department of Internal Affairs’ press service Valeriy Gorelykh informed UrBC. The news was reported to Nizhniy Tagil’s Leninskiy Department of Internal Affairs at 7:45 AM; A fact-finding police work team and a representative of the public prosecutions department’s Investigative Committee arrived at the scene at once. It was detected that the victim of the accident was a forty-two-year-old overman named Sergey Sidorov. The man’s body was found in the crushing section area;

The Titanic Cinema, a movie theater located in Greenwich Trade & Entertainment Center in Yekaterinburg, now has a new owner. OAO VUZ-Bank sold the movie theater to ZAO Profit Cinema. The shopping mall’s management expects positive changes only, since the business was never a core one for the bank, whereas Profit Cinema runs a movie theater network throughout the entire country. ‘No changes for the worse are likely to occur. We hope for better things, because this movie theater is going to be the investor’s core asset. VUZ-Bank treated this business as a secondary one. We also hope that

OOO Koltso Urala Commercial Bank came up with some much improved consumer loan offers: the interest rates on all the loans for private individuals have been decreased to 12% a year. The bank used to offer its loans for 19.9% a year, now it’s only 12%. The bank’s Retail Director Konstantin Bogatyrev explains the unprecedented drop in the interest rats is seen as a special offer for customers who need the money for a short time period. Most other banks usually offer such borrowers the so-called express loans: expensive loans for a short period of time. Koltso Urala came up with an alternative:

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service ruled that OOO Tagil Beer should pay a 19.2-million-ruble fine for unfair competition. The Service stated in March 2010 that the company’s actions were classed as unfair competition in accordance with Article 14 (part 1, paragraph 4) of the Federal Competition Protection Act. The offense consisted in the fact that the labels on the bottles of GOLD beer, sold by OOO Tagil Beer, looked too much like the trademark registered under No. 370605. The trademark in question belongs to OOO Krasniy Vostok-Solodovpivo Brewery and is used by the trademark owner to

Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecutions department instituted criminal proceedings against a fraudster who is suspected of doing damage to OAO Uralelectrotyazhmash Scientific Research, Design, and Technological Institute (OAO NII UETM). The prosecutions department claims the company had its legal papers containing data on the company’s General Director and its address edited by a third party in May 2010. It is alleged that the suspect, who bears no relation to the institute whatsoever, applied to a tax department asking to make some changes in the company’s data and provided a full set of