Kempinski hotel chain signed an agreement with the investment & construction holding Ruzog-Invest for the management of three five-star hotels in Yekaterinburg, Yerevan, and Marienbad, frontdesk.ru reports. Although the construction of the building has not started yet, it has been reported that the Yekaterinburg hotel, complete with 200 rooms, will be opened in 2013. This is expected to be a four-storey building occupying 1,468 sq m in Gogol St. The hotel will offer its guests four restaurants and bars. According to the online portal, the hotel will also host Russia’s first 1,000 sq m big

Yet another court hearing on the case involving copyright infringement on the Net will start in Perm on February 16, 2011. The defendant is the Yekaterinburg-based web portal Weburg that specializes in offering culture and entertainment content. OOO Eurasia Cinema Production filed a claim of over a million roubles against OOO Weburg for using six poster shots on their webpage that were designed exclusively as DVD skins. The posters promote the following films: The Grifters, True Crime, The Colt, The Governor's Wife / Deadly suspicion, Nightmare at the End of the Hall, and Der

Omega Opt Trading, the asset of Omega Group strong drinks chain, was recently declared bankrupt. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court ruled on February 3, 2011 that the company should undergo bankruptcy proceedings. Pavel Klementiev of Razvitiye, a self-regulatory organization of trustees in bankruptcy, was appointed the company’s trustee in bankruptcy. Now Omega Group’s representatives announced in December that their leaving the market results from court trials on claims laid against them by Sberbank of Russia. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court and Yekaterinburg Oktyabrsky district court

Yekaterinburg Chkalovsky District court rejected the prosecution’s demand that founder of Maxi Group Nikolai Maksimov be detained. The entrepreneur was released on a 50-million-rouble bail. Maksimov will now have to stay in Yekaterinburg to help complete the investigation by law-enforcement authorities. This done, he’ll take off for Moscow, where his official residence is. The businessman promised to come to Yekaterinburg any time the court or the investigative authorities ask him to do so. Maksimov explained why he came to Russia from abroad where he had been staying. ‘I came for justice,’