Experts from Sverdlovsk Region division of Rosselkhoznadzor (the state agricultural safety watchdog) inspected the milk-processing plant UMMC Agro in Verkhnyaya Pyshma and detected that on May 1-8, 2011 the company bought 429,120 kg of raw milk without any accompanying veterinary certificates that could prove that the produce was safe in veterinary respect. It was also revealed that the milk was delivered in tank containers without the obligatory sealing, which means that this milk could get infected while in transit from the suppliers’ premises to the destination point. Now it is only

On July 4, 2011, an Innovations Day will be held at Ludinovsky Locomotive Plant based in Ludinovo, Kaluga Region. The agenda of the event covers the launch of Russia’s first gathering locomotive with a hybrid power unit called TEM9N SinaraHybrid. This locomotive has been developed by the engineering company Sinara Transport Vehicles with the support of Skolkovo Foundation and the President’s Committee for Modernization and Russia’s Technological Development. Governor of Kaluga Region A. Artamonov, director of Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry’s Basic Industrial Branches Department V.

Dmitri Pumpyansky was elected the BOD Chairman of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK); besides, the BOD Secretary and the members and chairs of the appointments and remunerations committees as well as the members of the BOD audit and strategic development committees were elected. The authority of TMK Director-General was confirmed and the following members of the Supervisory Board were appointed: A. G. Shiryayev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, A. Yu. Kaplunov, A. A. Klachkov. A. G. Lyalkov, B.V. Oborsky, T. I. Petrosyan, K. A. Semerikov, and V. V. Shmatovitch. In addition, the budget for BOD

Delegations from thirty-three different countries are going to visit Yekaterinburg in mid-July, at the time when the international exhibition and forum on industrial innovations INNOPROM 2011 will be held here, Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for International and Foreign Economic Relations Alexander Kharlov announced at a meeting with the representatives of the Mid-Urals Corps diplomatique. The capital of the Urals will receive guests from Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,

Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) reports an annual general meeting was held in Moscow on June 28, 2011. The shareholders voted for declaring the dividend of 0.85 RUR per one ordinary share with face value of 10 RUR for the year 2010; the dividends thus total to 796,948,179.90 RUR. In addition, the following BOD members were elected by the stockholders: Mikhail Alekseyev, Mukhadin Eskindarov, Andrei Kaplunov, Igor Khmelevsky, Sergey Papin, Thomas Pickering, Dmitri Pumpyansky, Geoffrey Townsend, Alexander Shiryayev, and Alexander Shokhin. Five out of ten BOD members are independent directors.

RENOVA Group intends to get involved in the construction of electric power-generating facilities. For one, the company plans to launch Novobogoslovskaya power station in Krasnoturinsk, Sverdlovsk Region, in 2014, to launch another power station in Nizhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk Region, in 2015, and to launch yet another station in Yekaterinburg’s Academic district in 2017. The implementation of the project will require about 43bn RUR, the company’s BOD Chairman Viktor Vekselberg announced during a business trip to Yekaterinburg. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin and Viktor

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant’s Vysota 239 department has been certified in accordance with the international standard DNV recently. The certification procedures were first started by Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant in the fall of 2010 and were completed in less than a year. In fact, no other Russian company has managed to get the DNV certificate over such a short period before. The representatives of Det Norske Veritas certified the pipe production at Vysota 239, that is, the production of pipes with the diameter of 1,020 mm and wall thickness of 21.3 mm (strength 485 FD). The certificate

Magnum 8, a strong drinks supermarket based in Yekaterinbrug, was placed on the list of companies which owe over 1 million RUR to the Russian Federation budget. These data are available via Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service. The list of debtors is valid as of June 15, 2011.

The stockholders of Kyshtym Ore Mining & Processing Plant decided not to declare any dividends for the year 2010. This decision was taken at the annual general meeting in Kyshtym, Sverdlovsk Region. Last year’s profits, which amounted to 214,000 RUR, will be directed to increasing the joint stock company’s own funds.

Ural Airlines keeps renovating its fleet of vehicles. An Airbus A320 fit for 156 passengers arrived in Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg last Saturday and set off for its first Yekaterinburg-Moscow flight at once. The plane will from now on be used for the summer flights. Now that one more A320 was added to the air carrier’s fleet, the company runs eighteen Airbus planes altogether (thirteen A320 makes and five A321 models). The new aircraft is the fourth one Ural Airlines has bought in the year 2011, the carrier’s press service reports.

Tyumen Region Arbitration Court ruled that Tyumenenergobank’s bankruptcy proceedings should be prolonged through November 22, 2011, the court reports. As a matter of fact, this is the second time the bank has been undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. The first proceedings started in November 2011 and lasted through June 23, 2011.

METCOMBANK Board of Directors considered and approved of the idea to launch a Series 01 and 02 bond issues worth a total of 5 billion RUR, the bank’s press service reports. The first bond issue amounts to 2 billion RUR, the second one to 3 billion RUR, with each bond coming at face value of 1,000 RUR apiece. The bonds will remain in circulation for three years (1,098 days) from the day of the launch. These securities will be distributed via a public subscription, with the coupon yield for every coupon period reaching a certain percentage of the bonds’ face value; it is to be paid on the day

Ural Foil was recently placed on the list of enterprises which owe over 1 million RUR to the Russian Federation budget. These data are available from Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service. The list is valid as of June 15, 2011.

A preliminary hearing was held in Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court today regarding the claim laid by the region’s public prosecution authorities on the legitimacy of purchasing a Mercedes for the needs of Sverdlovsk Region Government’s car park. The defendants in the case are OOO Stern, Sverdlovsk Region Government Car Park, and the regional State Orders Department. Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service was involved in the case as a third party. The case was considered by Justice Marina Toropova. The claims have remained essentially the same and boil down to

Some of the tour operators are prepared to cancel their agreements with the air carriers and call off their deposits. These are the airline owners who must deal with the problem, what we are getting is the last year’s scenario. If the proprietors don’t do anything about the issue, they might have to face some most serious consequences,’ the Association of Russian Tour Operators’ official website quotes Head of the Association’s Transport Committee Dmitri Gorin as saying. Now Rosaviation announced last week that because Sky Express had been delaying flights for a long time more and more often

Bogoslovsky Ore Mining, Sverdlovsk Region, was placed on the list of enterprises which owe over 1m RUR to the Russian Federation budget. These data are available via Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service. The data provided are valid as of June 15, 2011.

Ural Instrument-Making Plant was placed on the list of enterprises which owe over 1m RUR to the Russian Federation budget. These data are available via Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service. The data provided are valid as of June 15, 2011.

VTB Capital is now a stockholders of Concern Kalina, a large Russian cosmetics manufacturer. VTB Capital bought a 13.5% shareholding in the company. At the same time the shareholding owned by Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited dropped from 15.51% до 6.79%.

Ural Airlines recently launched scheduled flights from Yekaterinburg to Uzbekistan’s second largest city Samarkand. The company’s press service reports that the flights will be operated on a weekly basis, namely, every Friday. The plane is to leave Yekaterinburg at 2:00 AM and to arrive in Samarkand at 3:55 AM; then the plane takes off in Samarkand at 5:25 AM and lands in Yekaterinburg at 9:25 AM. The flights will be operated using an Airbus A320.

Israel is planning to introduce a consulate general in Yekaterinburg, Interfax refers to the Israeli Ambassador to Moscow Dorit Golender as saying. Our goal is to set up another consulate in Yekaterinburg, we are currently working on this and we hope everything comes through,’ she said at a press conference in Moscow. The ambassador also pointed out that an Israeli consulate general had already been opened in Saint Petersburg.