A meeting of Sverdlovsk Region Labor Protection Committee took place in Yekaterinburg recently. The number of work injuries at Foratek EnergoTransStroy’s Yekaterinburg subsidiary went up by 3.1 times in 2010 compared with 2009. Every year, the enterprise gets some fatal accidents, with one person killed in 2009, two people killed in 2010, and one person killed in the first half of 2011. The committee considered the problem and decided to bring the subsidiary director A. A. Koltonyuk’s attention to the fact that the enterprise has not been meeting the norms of the Russian Federation Labor Code

According to Kommersant, the profitability of supermarket chain Magnit (which has been the most revenue-successful business in the industry for the last two years) has been going down for two quarters in a row: the company’s EBITDA margin amounted to 6.15% in April-June 2011 against 7% in the second quarter of 2010 and to 8.12% in the entire year 2010. In the first half of 2011, Magnit’s EBITDA margin came to 6.56% compared with 7.3% in the first six months of 2010. Analysts had expected the margin to amount to 6.57%.

Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities completed their check of whether the credit instruments of Ural Exhibition Center had been secured in a legitimate way; now the Center is the investor in the construction of Yekaterinburg EXPO, an international exhibition center, at the expense of Sverdlovskaya poultry factory, a state-run enterprise. It has been determined that the finances for the international exhibition center Yekaterinburg EXPO came from both Ural Exhibition Center’s own funds and the borrowed ones (provided through a loan from Sberbank). The loan payoff was backed up by a

The guests of the 8th international arms and munitions exhibition called Nizhniy Tagil Russian Defence Expo 2011 will be able to see the battlefield and maintenance potential of the foreign states’ military equipment for the first time this year. France and Italy will exhibit their vehicles at the event for the first time ever. Remarkably, these participants are planning to show some combat action moves,’ says Sverdlovsk Region Minister for Industry & Science. For one, the coordinators of the exhibition have already signed contracts with the Italian Iveco, Thales, Nexter, and Renault

Greenpeace claims the produce of fourteen international clothing manufacturers contains some toxic components. The list features such companies as Adidas, H&M, Calvin Klein, Abercombie&Fitch, Kappa, Lacoste, Nike, and Puma, the online portal Molly.Ru reports. The organization’s report states that their research indicated some hydroxy-ethyl alkylphenol content in the clothes and footwear produced by these companies. These compounds are know to be able to convert into nonylphenol during washing, and this chemical can have a detrimental effect on a human’s hormonal balance; it can also