Experts from Ural Federal District’s division of Rosprirodnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) took part in the inspection of Russian Chrome 1915 undertaken by Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities for the environment. The inspections revealed that Russian Chrome 1915 polluted the River Chusovaya with toxic substances and has been dumping insufficiently purified waste water from its neutralizing station into the River Pakhotka. The enterprise thus crossly violated the existing water use regulations, exceeding the maximum permissible discharge limits; moreover, its water

The Central Bank of Russia appointed its authorized representatives in twenty-one Russian banks, its press service reports. The bank’s representatives are still operating at Bank24.ru, Bank Severnaya Kazna, and such major banks as Bank VTB, Alfa-Bank, Sberbank of Russia, Bank of Moscow, and some others.

Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service Ural Federal District’s division ruled on February 3, 2011 (decree 62-11-102/pz-i) that the emission of Sverdlovsk Region-based AVS Group’s ordinary registered paperless shares should be halted.

The international rating agency demoted the long-term credit rating of X5 Retail Group N.V. – the proprietor of a major retail grocery chain – and its daughter enterprises from BB- down to B+. the rating outlook is Stable. The rating of the company’s priority unsecured ruble bonds (issued by the daughter enterprise X5 Finance) was reduced from BB- to B+ and placed on CreditWatch with Negative outlook. What’s more, the ratings of X5 Finance and Agrotorg were called off altogether.

Moscow Region Arbitration court declared Technosila, the company managing Technosila electronic goods and household appliances chain store, bankrupt, Russian Agency for Legal & Court Information reports. The court made the company undergo bankruptcy proceedings for six months and appointed the company’s acting CEO Sergey Petrov the trustee in bankruptcy. The trustee announced in the course of the hearing that no evidence of the company going deliberately bankrupt was found. Technosila now has eleven creditors, whose claims total to 11.25bn RUR.