The customs points of Ural Customs Administration transferred 36.12 billion RUR worth of customs duties and payments to the federal budget in nine months of 2010, says the spokesperson for the Administration. This figure actually exceeds that for January-September 2009 by 2.42 billion RUR. Last year, the economic recession caused a 27% drop in the budget payments on the part of the Ural enterprises, especially the metallurgical, machine-building, and the energy-sector ones. The export-related payments plunged by 3.9 billion RUR in 2009 compared with 2008; the import-related payments went down

Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the management of ZAO YugraInvestStroyProyekt recently; the company’s top executives are suspected of abusing their authority. It has been detected that, regardless of failing to meet its contractual obligations (putting up an apartment block in Uray, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region, with the future apartment owners’ money), the developer in question violated the Russian Federation Urban Planning Code requirements and got an illegitimate permission to have the building commissioned. As a result, the private investors, who had directed a lot

The Plenipotentiary Representation of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District is going to watch over the reorganization of OAO Uralsvyazinform, a telecommunications provider, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Sergey Smetanyuk announced at a meeting with Uralsvyazinform’s General Director Sergey Lukash. The meeting was dedicated to the latest changes in the company’s organization and personnel policy. In fact, Uralsvyazinform intends to lay off 1,740 employees at the end of 2010 and during the first half of 2011. The

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court ruled on September 23, 2010 that OOO Glavsreduralstroy Management Company based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Region, must undergo bankruptcy proceedings, thus closing case А60-3933/2010-С11. Tatiana Shulyakova, a member of Delo Self-Regulatory Organization of Independent Trustees in Bankruptcy Non-Commercial Partnership was chosen as the company’s trustee in bankruptcy. Creditors can place their claims until November 9, 2010.

‘The Ural tour operators no longer view Egypt as one of the most affordable and popular tourist destinations. Not a lot of tours will be offered in the winter of 2010/2011, since all the major airlines will be operating fewer flights to this place. It has been announced that about fourteen flights a week will be available altogether, but no cheap trips are to be expected,’ says Director of Zima-Leto Group Olga Gulyar. ‘Egypt and Turkey have been extremely popular over the last two years because of the recession: these are the most affordable vacations abroad. Now things are different: plenty

‘Natural risks call for a reconsideration of our priorities: we now have to make a stake at livestock farming, so next year, we’ll double the state subsidies for this kind of farmers. They will receive 1 billion RUR,’ Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevitch said in his report at an inter-regional agro-industrial fair in Kurgan, Kurgan Region. The Governor explained 85 million RUR would be directed to stock development, 567 million RUR would be used to subsidize the milk and meat production, and 300 million RUR will compensate the expenses related to farm construction and upgrades and