The daughter enterprise of TNK-BP TNK-Nyagan was made by the court to pay a fine of 3.3m RUR for damage to and extermination of soil on the area of 1 hectare. Rosprirodnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) carried an inspection of the company in 2009 and detected that in 2004 a strip of forest on the licensed land allotment that TNK-Nyagan had been using was contaminated with mineral oil. The agency estimated that, under the existing Forestry Code, the company was to have provided for the technological and biological reclamation of soil, but none of this ever happened. This is why

he travel agents based in the Urals keep waiting for the compensation payments from Capital Tours; the payments are to be made for the tourists whose travel expenses were covered by the agents themselves. According to the insurer Innogarant, the payments were supposed to have started in February 2011, but for the time being the company is just busy returning the applicants’ papers back for improvement. ‘Our application package was placed with Capital Tours as early as December 2010. Some of the papers have been given back to us because of some filling-in slips. What’s more, we still cannot

Starting February 15, 2011, Hungarian Consulate General in Yekaterinburg will be offering travelers Schengen Visas on behalf of the Kingdom of Denmark. ‘The terms of getting a Danish visa are no different from the general Schengen visa requirements. The visas are issued in accordance with the rules of the Schengen agreement given that all the documents required by the signers are provided. Hungarian Consulate General is allowed to issue short-term visas to Denmark if the visitors intend to stay for no longer than ninety days there,’ the consulate reports. Hungarian Consulate General in

Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service decided that the issue of Mid-Urals Development Corporation’s ordinary registered paperless shares should be resumed and the report on the additional share issue results should be registered with the Service. The shares were available via a private offering. The issue amounts to two million shares, with face value of 1,000 RUR apiece. This means the issue is worth 2bn RUR altogether.

Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service annulled the license of Tyumen-based OOO Forum Holding Plus allowing it to deal in brokerage operations and the license of Tyumen-based OAO Zapsibcombank allowing it to deal in securities management. The decisions were made on the basis of the two companies’ applications as well as proofs of the organizations having no unmet liabilities as regards their professional activity, the Service reports.