UrBC, Moscow, September 24, 2010. The Russian Federation Finance Ministry carried a report on the debts accounted for in the public debt books of Russia’s federal constituencies and the municipal debt books by August 1, 2010. According to this report, Ural Federal District’s state debt rose to 25.8 billion RUR against 25.7 billion RUR on July 1, 2010. The district’s greatest debtor is Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region, with its 11.3 billion RUR worth of debts; the region is followed by Sverdlovsk Region, with its 8.3 billion RUR (8.5 billion RUR). Chelyabinsk Region’s debts come to 3.7

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2010. ‘We can now see that the development strategy we’ve chosen for Yekaterinburg is the right one. Our main challenge is to promote the city as a brand. This ProEstate contest is an important part of the city’s image. Investors hear that Yekaterinburg wins, and this shapes their idea of the place. Nine years ago, Yekaterinburg was generally referred to as the city of smoke-filled chimney-stocks; these days, a large-scale re-branding campaign is being launched on a grand scale,’ says Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg Viktor Konteev. Now Yekaterinburg’s newest

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2010. Yekaterinburg’s Chkalovskiy district court sustained eighteen claims laid by the district prosecutor against a number of employers who failed to create or provide special workplaces for the disabled within the required quotas. The public prosecution authorities checked the companies’ compliance with the legal requirements for the protection of the disabled and detected that eighteen enterprises based in Chkalovskiy district of Yekaterinburg (including OOO Spetsremstroy, OOO Ural Tire Plant, OOO Oil Plant, OOO Ceramics Plant, and others) do not set up

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2010. ‘We are very glad to see that Renova-StroyGroup has won this FIABCI contest. This only makes sense, since Academic is an important object for the entire country. Even though the place is officially considered a district, it is, in fact, a real city, and Russia’s only city built from scratch. Both the master plan and the project of the area were evaluated very highly,’ the plenipotentiary representative of Managers & Developers Guild in Yekaterinburg Andrei Bril announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. Now the city’s newest Academic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2010. Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Sergey Smetanyuk coordinated the final meeting of a work team responsible for the organization of the Ural Forum on Russian-Ukrainian Cooperation. The meeting was attended by the representative of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Yekaterinburg Sergey Khvan, the Consul-General of Ukraine in Tyumen Mikhail Kolyadin, the chief federal inspectors, official from Ural Federal District’s constituencies, and representatives of the Russian Union

OAO Uralfinprombank got a brand new set of stockholders recently. The bank’s new proprietors are Natalya Pronina (17.08%), Vitaliy Kunitsin (16.47%), Rustem Kadyrov (15.62%), Alexander Dankov (17%), Svetlana Belova (14.91%), and Andrei Belov (18.92%), the company’s official report states. At the same time, members of the Supervisory Board Stanislav Shanaurin and Tamara Udelnova, who used to have 4.72% and 0.33% of shares, respectively, no longer have a share in the bank’s authorized capital. The same is true of BOD members Sergey Udelniy and Valeriy Metelskiy, whose shareholdings used to come