Experts from Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state-run consumer rights watchdog) have examined 1,705,400 tons of meat products since the beginning of the year, and 6.6 tons, or 0.4% had to be discarded, the agency’s press service reports. The situation looked particularly unsatisfactory as far as poultry was concerned. Thirty-one samples of chicken meat (whole chickens and their parts) have been examined, and nine of these samples (29%) were declared not to meet the GOST Р52702-2006 standards for technical conditions of chicken meat (chickens, hens, broilers, and their

The net loss of Ufaleynickel (based in Chelyabinsk Region), calculated in accordance with the Russian accounting standards, reached 199.2m RUR in the first half of 2011 compared with 84.2m RUR in the first half of 2010, the company’s report states. The company’s gross profit decreased by 4.55 times and came to 65.86m RUR, its pre-tax loss came to 64.49m RUR. The enterprise explains its performance indicators stem from the dropping disposal price of nickel and growing prime cost.

Standard & Poor's Corporate Governance Rating Service reports that GAMMA (Governance, Accountability, Management, Metrics, and Analysis) rating of Enel OGK-5 was promoted from GAMMA-6 to GAMMA-6+ and called off at the same time. The company runs Sredneuralskaya and Reftinskaya heat and power stations in Sverdlovsk Region. Standard & Poor's says the company’s strong points in corporate governance are the vast international experience of the controlling shareholder Enel S.p.A. in the field of managing energy resources, and its support of Enel OGK-5 investment program. At the

Ural Airlines announces the start of domestic flights sale. Between August 15, 2011 and September 15, 2011, all the passengers can buy tickets for a whole range of destinations at the cheapest prices imaginable, the company’s press service reports. Special rates are offered on the following flights: Moscow-Irkutsk (6,700 RUR one way) Moscow-Krasnodar (2,700 RUR one way) Moscow-Sochi (2,500 RUR one way) Moscow-Simferopol (? RUR one way) Moscow-Novokuznetsk (6,800 RUR one way) Moscow-Novosibirsk (4,300 RUR one way) Moscow-Saint Petersburg (2,000 RUR one way) Moscow-Chita (8,000 RUR one way)

VSMPO-Avisma Corporation might give up on its plans to build a plant for the mechanical processing of stampings for the aviation industry in Titanium Valley, a special economic zone, in case the infrastructure in the area fails to appear quickly enough. The corporation’s Director-General Mikhail Voyevodin said in an interview to company newspaper Novator that so far, the company had only got the Titanium Valley Supervisory Board’s approval of a business plan for setting up a daughter enterprise (VSMPO-New Technologies) there. The enterprise would have a resident status. Given that the