The Expert magazine carried a rating of Russia’s 400 largest enterprises recently. The rating is mainly aimed at identifying the largest businesses in the Russian economy and at using their performance indicators to analyze the part big business plays in the country’s economic development as well as its structure and main development trends. This is actually the oldest big business rating in Russia, compiled for the 17th time this year, and it does not have any limitations as to the nature of business. As a result, the rating comprised enterprises involved in all the major economic fields.

Bayer is going to share its new pharmaceutical technologies with Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises. The agreement to this extent was signed by the pharmaceutical concern and the region recently, member of Russia’s Soviet of the Federation and Chairman of Ural Pharmaceutical Cluster Non-Profit Partnership Supervisory Board Eduard Rossel announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. We have long been on the lookout for a strong partner to develop our pharmaceutical industry, since our problems are hard to solve on our own. Bayer was also interested in finding a business partner that would

Ural Airlines is launching a new Chelyabinsk-Vienna flight. This is actually the first scheduled international flight the air carrier is to operate from Chelyabinsk Airport. The presentation of this event will begin on the airport premises at 9 o’clock on October 5, 2011. Passengers on the very first such flight will be offered some memorable gifts. The solemn presentation ceremony will probably be attended by First Vice Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Sergey Komyakov, Chelyabinsk Airport management team, and Ural Airlines top executives.

Ural Airlines is now the official air carrier at Expotravel-2011, an international tourist fair that will take place in Yekaterinburg World Trade Center on October 7-8, 2011. The airline prepared a surprise for the participants of and the visitors to the fair: Ural Airlines will be offering special prices on flight certificates for flights from Yekaterinburg to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Beijing during the fair. The latter offer should quite interest the tourists, as the certificate for Yekaterinburg-Beijing and Beijing-Yekaterinburg flights will only come to 8,000 RUR for one-way ticket,

Sverdlovsk Region Government held a meeting of the committee responsible for assisting the local businesses. The meeting was coordinated by Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Anatoly Gredin. The attendees considered the prospective tax payments to be made by a number of the Mid-Urals’ large enterprises next year. It was announced that the revenues of VIZ-Stal, one of Russia and the world’s major cold-rolled electric transformer steel manufacturers, rose considerably in the first half of the year, but the company neither paid its income tax nor intends to do so. Things look the same at