Tyumen Region Property Fund is going to put up to auction 118 natural gas pipelines belonging to the region; the auction will take place on September 15, 2011, the Fund reports. The opening bid has been set at 545.8m RUR, and every next bid has to be at least 5.46m RUR bigger, MFD-InfoCenter says. Bidders can submit their applications until September 9.

A solemn opening ceremony will take place at Yekaterinburg Central Stadium at 6 o’clock today; this event is part of the City Day celebrations. The agenda of the celebrations covers an official ceremony, Ural-Khimki football match, some track-and-field competitions with Central Stadium trophies as prizes (male and female relay races, an 800-meter race, and a Generation Relay Race with Olympic prize winners participating), and an entertainment program with games and surprises, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. For the first time in history, the FIFA anthem will be performed on the arena of the

The power supplier TGK-9 announced its Yekaterinburg subsidiary would go into liquidation. This decision was made by the company’s Board of Directors. The company will still run its Sverdlovsk subsidiary, a Yekaterinburg-based subsidiary responsible for priority investment projects, and Academic subsidiary for priority investment projects in Sverdlovsk Region. Sverdlovsk Heat-Supplying Company informed UrBC that the liquidated subsidiary had actually been a non-functioning, deadweight structure for a while before it closed.

Sverdlovsk Region Railways (the subsidiary of Russian Railways) claims that Gazpromneft-Ural has been unloading oil at its oil storage facilities in an unsatisfactory way, the portal RZhD-Partner reports. Now some shortage of AI-92 gasoline was observed at Yekaterinburg filling stations run by Gazpromneft-Ural and Lukoil-Permnefteprodukt this summer. Sverdlovsk Region Railways announced then that the problem was the poor logistics of the oil supplying companies. As the organization of the unloading process at the storage depots is unsatisfactory, cisterns are sitting there unloaded for hours

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court keeps looking into the claim laid by Microsoft against Introtest; the plaintiff insists that the defendant pay 4.64m RUR, the court proceedings state. The plaintiff’s claim is mainly based on the alleged violation of the plaintiff’s author’s rights by Introtest. In fact, companies such as Autodesk Inc, Corel Corporation, Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc, and Dasso Systems SolidWorks are involved as co-defendants in the case. The defendant reports they are sure to win the case. Microsoft’s position is very weak. I believe the court will not