Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court is not processing the claim placed by the region’s prosecution authorities; the authorities insist that the agreement on Sverdlovsk Region Government car park buying a Mercedes Benz S500 for the Governor be declared invalid, the court’s website states. The thing is, the claim, filled by the deputy prosecutor, does not meet all the requirments of Articles of 125 and 126 of Russia’s Arbitration Procedural Code. Now Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities want Sverdlovsk Region State Order Department, Sverdlovsk Region Government car park, and Stern

Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport is going to become one of the airports that will be offered a 50% discount on the transfer of passengers from the Far East. The proposal was considered at a meeting devoted to the Mid-Urals transportation infrastructure development; Russia’s Transport Minister Igor Levitin took part in the meeting, in fact. We agreed that this measure should be introduced next year. We feel this will make passenger travel much cheaper and will facilitate the development of an aviation hub in Yekaterinburg,’ Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin said.

Former deputy of Sverdlovsk Region Duma Dmitri Vershinin was appointed the new head of the Russian Red Cross Sverdlovsk Region division. He succeeded Olga Kharitonova, whose powers expired on May 25, 2011. I have been aware of the Red Cross activities for a long time now; we used to work on a number of projects together when I was a Duma deputy. It was Olga Kharitonova who recommended that I should become the new chairman of the regional division. We are now busy handing over the authority, revising the documents, and making decisions on the development of the division,’ Mr. Vershinin told

The deputies of Russia’s State Duma agreed on the wording of an inquiry to head of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service Igor Artemiev. The MPs are worried about the lack of transparency within the payment systems that are currently operating in Russia; the systems do not disclose the particulars of their rate policies or the terms of their partnership with the banks. It has been suggested that the Federal Antimonopoly Service should look into the activity of the payment systems in question, RBC daily reports. According to the enquiry, there is now a number of payment systems in Russia that

Yekaterinburg Municipal Bank is not going to pay any dividends for the year 2010; this was decided upon at the annual general meeting that took place in Yekaterinburg recently. The bank reports the decision was made because the bank’s losses amounted to 194.36m RUR last year.