UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, February 11, 2011. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) delivered 2,376,600 tons of rolled metal goods to the pipe industries last year, which was 48% better than a year earlier (1,603,000 tons). In fact, the share of metal goods meant for pipe manufacturing and delivered onto the home market came to 34% in 2010 compared with 33% in 2009. MMK’s main customers among pipe plants are Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant, Volzhsky Tube Rolling Plant, and Seversky Pipe Plant that are all members of Pipe Metallurgical Company; Vyksunsky Metallurgical Plant and

The loss sustained by ZAO AKB Absolut Bank in the year 2010 amounted (in accordance with the IAS) to ?5m, which was 22.4 times less than a year earlier, KBC Group report for the fourth quarter of 2010 says, Prime TASS reports. The bank’s NPL came to 16.8% in the last quarter of 2010 against 18.3% in the third quarter. At the beginning of the year, the NPL came to 14%. KBC Group is currently Absolut Bank’s principal shareholder with a 95% holding in the business. 5% of shares belongs to IFC. It was earlier announced that KBC Group intended to leave the bank’s capital.

The preliminary findings of the census were announced in the course of a round table discussion on Novosibirsk’s socioeconomic development in 2010. Novosibirsk city council reports a little over 1.47 million questionnaires were filled in during the census, which was 4.6% more than the current population figures state. This means Novosibirsk is still Russia’s third biggest city in terms of population. Yekaterinburg numbers 80,000 fewer people.

The detention process itself is a purely formal procedure, this is why no procedural claims can be made in this respect. That we disagree with the grounds for arrest is another matter. The reason given in the detention warrant is that Nikolai Maksimov is hiding from the law-enforcement authorities even though it’s obvious he never thought of hiding,’ businessman Nikolai Maksimov’s lawyer Leonid Matveev told UrBC. OAO Maxi Group’s minority shareholder Nikolai Maksimov was detained in Moscow the other day by the officers of Sverdlovsk Region’s Internal Affairs Department. ‘Nikolai Maksimov was

Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the claim E.S. Alamov Ural Mechano-optical Plant wanted to place against Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service. The plaintiff demanded that the FAS’s ruling be declared invalid. According to the files of the case, the plant applied for a tender that would give the best bidder a state contract for the delivery of equipment used to stock, process, store, and secure donated blood and its components. However, the plant’s application was rejected as the bidder failed to state the specific delivery date. As a result the tender was given to the only participant:

Regular monitoring checks of telecommunications operators that use IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi)-based wireless broad band connection radio devices revealed that Mobifon 2000 and Prestige Internet actually used unlicensed access points on the premises of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Region division of Roskomnadzor (the federal communications watchdog) reported today. The offenders were ordered to deal with the violations, with administrative offense orders issued.