Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service took legal action against the Russian Federation Social Security Fund as the latter is suspected of violating the existing antimonopoly legislation, the spokesperson for the Service reports. The fund’s charges are based on Article 17 (part 2) of the Competition Protection law (denying access to taking part in a tender). ‘It is believed that the fund insists that all the bidders, who are supposed to deliver computer appliances to the company, make sure all the computers run on Intel microprocessors,’ the spokesperson explains.

Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Environment and Nature Management Committee looked into the conservation program of Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works (NTMK). It was reported at the committee’s meeting that the enterprise was still one of Sverdlovsk Region’s top twenty air polluters. ‘Up to 60% of the air in Nizhniy Tagil consists of pollutants emitted by NTMK, and the quality of this air has not improved a bit over the last few years, according to the data available from the automatic air monitoring tests,’ the committee members stated.

‘Preliminarily, we can say the cause of the fire at Ganina Yama monastery was stove heating mismanagement,’ the representatives of Russia’s Department of Emergencies announced at a press briefing dedicated to the accident in the temple on the premises of the monastery at Ganina Yama site. The DoE officials said that, in principle, the temple could be restored, since the foundation and the east entrance had remained intact. However, the valuables reportedly situated in the temple were lost forever. The valuables in question might comprise the icon of Saint Nicholas the Miracle Worker that used

It has been detected that recently that OAO Uralmashzavod/Ural Heavy Machine-Building Plant is not storing its documents in the way prescribed by the law, so Ural Federal District’s division of the Federal Financial Markets Service imposed a 200,000-ruble fine on the company.

The Cyprian authorities, who proposed introducing a Consulate-General in Yekaterinburg, intend the establishment to serve as the regional visa application center that will render its services to the dwellers of Ural Federal District, The Republic of Cyprus’s Minister for Trade, Industry, and Tourism Antonis Pashalidis said at his meeting with acting Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Anatoly Gredin. The meeting was mainly dedicated to issues related to the introduction of the consulate in Yekaterinburg and to the prospects of Cyprus and Sverdlovsk Region’s trade and economic relations. Now