Federal Antimonopoly Service’s division in Perm Territory instituted two lawsuits regarding the instances of colluding in the field of consumer lending insurance. Alfa-Bank and AlfaStrakhovaniye-Zhizn as well as ROSBANK and Sozhekap Strakhovaniye Zhizn are suspected of violating Article 11 (part 1, paragraphs 4, 5, 8) of the Competition Protection Act. The FAS division reports the banks made private individuals who applied for loans sign life and health insurance agreements with certain insurers; the insurance agreement would be valid for the entire loan term, the payment was to be made in

The Ural Federal District division of Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service (FSFR) completed an in-office audit of Ural-Minolta aimed at checking the company’s compliance with the Russian securities legislation; the Service was particularly interested in whether the company complied with the requirements of Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service’s Order 09-33/pz-n as of August 13, 2009. Following the inspection, an order was issued to the company: Ural-Minolta now must eliminate the revealed violations of the Russian Federation law. The order was directed to the company on August 25,

ChTPZ and Daewoo International Corporation Textile Division signed a contract for the delivery of several tens of thousands of sets of modern, comfortable, and nice-looking workwear for the workers of its ‘white metallurgy’ divisionsVysota 239, the finishing center, Iron Ozone 32, and other departments of Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant. The delivery is to be made by December 2011, ChTPZ press service reports. The Korean experts visited the two plants the other day; they said they were impressed by the clean and smart-looking premises and got quite a few extra

Those opposed to the construction of a retail park in Verkh-Isetsky district of Yekaterinburg (to be developed by Forum Group) keep protesting, says Yabloko coordinator for Sverdlovsk Region Irina Skachkova. The construction site was blocked for four hours on Saturday. Activists claimed their went for a walk in the park and presented the authorities the ruling of the Statutory Court that said the area around was considered to be a TOP 1 kind of territory (a park); as they were not allowed to enter the park for some unclear reasons, they decided to have a picnic on the roadside. Incidentally,

The 8th international arms, military vehicles, and ammunition exhibition called Russian Expo Arms Nizhniy Tagil 2011 will take place in the Mid-Urals on September 8-11, 2011 and will present visitors to the fair the hi tech achievements not only of the defense industry but also those of the industrial sector on the whole; this makes the event a logical sequel to Innoprom 2011, the recent innovations exhibition, Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for International and Foreign Economic Relations Alexander Kharlov says. Representatives of nearly forty countries, including delegations from twelve