The court officers from Oktyabrskiy district division of Russia’s Federal Service of Court Officers in Sverdlovsk Region detected in the course of their enforcement proceedings that OOO Temp Management Company has a number of additional accounts at OAO Bank24.ru. The division’s press service reports the debtor company in question, which is based in Yekaterinburg’s Oktyabrskiy district, was re-registered with Kirovskiy district’s tax inspectorate and had a few accounts opened at OAO Bank24.ru. These accounts were arrested alongside with nine more accounts in some other banks; over 4.96 million

The trade union of OAO Evrazruda (Evraz Group’s ore mining division) managed to persuade the company’s management to launch a pay rise recently. Evrazruda’s Managing Director Alexander Salkov and the trade union’s chairwoman Svetlana Boyeva signed a joint decree that provides for a 5% increase in average pay (including base wages and salaries) starting September 1, 2010, which will expand the salaries fund correspondingly. In addition, the enterprise promised to transfer 7.5 million RUR onto the trade unions’ accounts by November 1, 2010 in order to meet its obligations for the year 2009. As

A recent audit check at Khanty-Mansiyskiy Non-State Retirement Fund conducted upon the regional authorities’ request revealed numerous legal offenses in the way the fund’s finances were managed, the fund’s President Alexei Okhlopkov said at a press conference the other day, Kommersant reports. Okhlopkov was quoted as saying that the fund’s asset management system had been built upon a network of management companies that were associated with the retirement fund’s previous administrators. ‘This meant these companies were focusing not only on investment but on some other tasks as well. The

A group of officials from Ural Federal District will visit Qatar on October 3-8, 2010. The delegation, chaired by the Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Nikolai Vinnichenko, will consist of about fifty people, including the representatives of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry and heads of Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, and Tyumen Regions and other federal constituencies within Ural Federal District as well as directors of major Urals-based industrial enterprises and holdings, the spokesperson for Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Enterprise

Following a downfall in its investment projects, the German wholesale hypermarket chain is planning to go back to the pre-recession expansion rates in Russia next year, Interfax refers to Jeroen de Groot, Managing Director Metro C&C Russia at Metro Cash and Carry as announcing. Now the chain’s investment program shrank considerably in 2009 and 2010: for one, Metro Cash & Carry set up nine new shopping centers in Russia in the year 2008 but only four in the year 2009, so the total number of Metro’s Russian stores reached fifty-two. According to Metro representatives, the company