President of MMK Management Company Viktor Rashnikov signed an order for pay rises at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (ММК). The increase in wages and salaries will go along the wage-growth program adopted by the company. For one, the pay of workers, managers, white-collar experts, and clerks will go up 10%. This is the second time the enterprise’s employees have got a pay rise this year, as the wages and salaries went up 10% in March 2010. All in all, MMK is expected to spend about 1 billion RUR on wage increases in the year 2010. ‘Even now, when times are still a bid hard, we manage to

OAO Uralgipromez raised its shareholding in OOO Upravlyayuschaya Proyektnaya Kompaniya up to 36.74%. Prior to this stock expansion, Uralgipromez used to own 15.44% of the company’s stock. The shares were sold to the enterprise by OOO Forpost Company. The transaction is estimated to be worth 95.37 million RUR.

899 instances of car theft and 1,025 hijackings were registered in Sverdlovsk Region in eight months of 2010. As for the month of August, fifty-two foreign automobiles were stolen, with Toyota proving the most frequently stolen car make: twenty Toyotas went missing in the region altogether. VAZ 2106-2165 and VAZ 2101-2103 car makes were the second most ‘popular’ models: all in all, seventy-eight such automobiles were stolen this August.

‘Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service is going to place the report on the investigation involving OAO Yekaterinburg Oil Plant’s pricing policies with our Service’s Moscow headquarters,’ the spokeswoman for Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Marina Yusupova said to UrBC. The Service’s regional division came up with a report on the weekly price monitoring research regarding basic food items recently. ‘The price of vegetable oil produced by OAO Yekaterinburg Oil Plant went up the most: in fact, it soared by 28.42%. The oil plant reports

OAO Severstal insists that OAO Uralvagonzavod starts making a 100% prepayment on its rolled metal products orders starting the last quarter of 2010, Kommersant reports. A letter explaining this demand was sent to Uralvagonzavod the day before. The change in the terms of contract was brought about by the ‘serious payment deadline problems on the part of the plant without any explanations as to the reasons for such practices’. The metallurgical enterprise’s representative refused to quote the exact amount of debt but did say that the deadline had been missed by eight days as of September 9,

OAO Ural Airlines has recently been declared Russia’s leading air carrier. The winners of the 6th Golden Chariot National Transport Prize were awarded in the course of a solemn ceremony in Moscow. The prize was introduced by the State Duma’s Energy, Transport & Communications Committee and Russia’s Transportation Ministry. A board of experts picked out the best companies among several hundred transportation enterprises and awarded prizes in several categories related to the country’s various transportation branches. Ural Airlines won the prize in the Russia’s Leading Air Carrier category.