‘We’ve come back to the Parliament by now. Roman Kadyrov arrived at the scene to apologize for the incident; so did the Minister of Internal Affairs, too,’ Sverdlovsk Region Duma deputy Igor Danilov told UrBC. An act of terror was committed in the Parliament building in Chechnya this morning. A suicide bomber killed himself, while three more terrorists managed to enter the building. The special police forces locked down the site where Sverdlovsk Duma deputies Igor Danilov, Anatoly Sukhov, and Askhat Masayev were present at that moment. The officials arrived in Chechnya on a visit; they were

‘Nizhneserginskiy metal goods plant is Sverdlovsk Region’s primary consumer of scrap metal, so about 30,000 carriages of the product get delivered here every year. The plant’s highly efficient radiation control system makes it possible to detect each and every instance of possibly radioactive materials arriving on its premises. We have 100% control over the scrap metal,’ the plant’s press service reports. As recently as last year, numerous batches of scrap metal with alarming radiation background were registered at the enterprise. According to the Ministry for Natural Resources, these

A branch of the Italian Russian Association, an association of Italian entrepreneurs in Russia, will soon be introduced in Yekaterinburg, the Association’s President Vittorio Torrembini announced at the opening ceremony of a business forum on Russia and Italy’s interregional cooperation. ‘This branch will contribute to the development of Italy and Sverdlovsk Region’s relations. We’ll coordinate meetings of Italian and Sverdlovsk businesspeople and are also planning to support the entrepreneurs in many ways,’ Torrembini said. In fact, the two parties’ trade turnover reached $315m in the first

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service imposed a 100,000-ruble fine on ZAO P.R. Rus for launching an inappropriate Martell advertisement, the spokesperson for the Service reports. The FAS declared earlier that advertising the cognac under the slogan, ‘Pleasure born in 1715’ contradicted Article 5 (part 5, paragraph 3) and Article 21 (part 1, paragraph 1) of the Federal Advertising Act. ‘Our committee came to the conclusion that this Martell advertisement displayed an act of consuming a strong drink and created an impression that drinking cognac makes you feel better. According to Article 38

‘Excessive red tape on both sides is the factor preventing the efficient cooperation between Italy and Russia on the whole and Italy and Sverdlovsk Region in particular. We really need to cut down on the bureaucracy, and customs is one important place to start. This certainly isn’t a kind of problem that can be solved quickly, but it keeps dragging on for twenty years now. Every time we are told that the issue is just about to be settled, but when a new piece of legislation comes into effect, things only turn out to get even worse,’ President of the Italian Russian Association, an association

Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and Atakas Group announced that a cold rolling department is to be launched at MMK-Atakas production facility in Iskenderun, Turkey. This $250m cold rolling department includes a continuous pickling line capable of producing 1.2 million tons of metal goods a year, a reversing mill with the capacity of 750,000 tons of goods a year, a continuous hot-dip galvanizing unit with the capacity of 450,000 tons of goods a year, and a polymeric coating line with the annual capacity of 200,000 tons of goods a year. By the end of 2011, the department is expected