The Economic News Agency prepared a rating of Russia’s best lobbyists in April 2011 for Nezavisimaya Gazeta. BOD Chairman of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Viktor Rashnikov was given the 21st position in the First People Lobbyists category (Strong Efficiency subgroup), which means he retained the position he got in the previous rating. This is actually one of the best results among the VIPs of Russia’s ferrous metallurgy business. The research, which Nezavisimaya Gazeta carries on a monthly basis, determines just how effective the performance of private and state organizations’

Some changes were introduced to UralTransBank BOD recently: President of Ural Federal University Stanislav Naboichenko, who is no longer an independent director after being on the Board for over seven years, has been replaced by UFU Provost for Economics & Strategic Development Daniil Sandler. The decision to this extent was taken by the bank’s stockholders in the course of the annual general meeting on May 27, 2011.

In accordance with Order 62-11-601/pz-i of Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service Ural Federal District division as of May 27, 2011, the issue of Sverdlovsk Region-based Ural University Campus ordinary registered paperless shares was halted.

Nissan Company’s Saint Petersburg-based plant had to put up with a five-day stoppage, that is, until June 3, 2011, inclusively, ITAR-TASS reports. Now it is this particular enterprise that is currently the key supplier of Nissan automobiles to Yekaterinburg. According to the company’s press service, this idle time will allow them to synchronize the plant’s production processes with the schedule for delivering the car parts from Japan. The decision to change the Saint Petersburg’s plant’s working hours was made because the production in Japan stopped at the end of March and early in April

Forbes came up with its rating of Russia’s 30 most business-friendly regions. Tatarstan was declared No.1, while Sverdlovsk Region was given the second place, followed by Krasnodar Territory. Areas like Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Moscow Region, and Leningrad Region did not compete in the rating because of their unique status, whereas the republics of the North Caucasus were not featured in the rating due to security problems.

UTair Airlines plane traveling from Tyumen to Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport had to perform an emergency landing due to engine failure, Rosaviation’s official representative Sergey Izvolsky told RIA Novosti. The plane departed from Tyumen at 7:40 PM local time (5:40 PM Moscow time) and had to get back to the airport as soon as twenty minutes after the take-off. The crew announced that the aircraft would have to perform an emergency landing in Tyumen. There were sixty-five passengers aboard the plane; no one was hurt. Later on, these passengers flew to Moscow via another airplane.