Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and Minister for Industry & Science Alexander Petrov spoke about the potential investors of AMUR car factory during his business visit to Novouralsk. Among the criteria that matter to the government as far as the potential investors are concerned is their willingness to set up a full automobile production cycle on the premises of Novouralsk plant, to launch a separate facility for the manufacturing of car parts, and to create a scientific and technological center for advanced car-making technologies. ‘The priority will be given to those car

Rosaviation first issued a permission for Transaero to operate chartered flights to three Italian cities and then called it off, the air carrier claims. The airline has already signed agreements with tour operators and is now threatening to take the case to court. Rosaviation announced last night that the agency had never sent a permission to operate chartered flights to Italy to the air carrier, RBC daily reports. According to the airline, Rosaviation committee approved of their application for the operation of chartered flights from Moscow to Rome on October 28. However, as soon as November

Nomos-Bank still intends to buy the state-owned 44% shareholding in Khanty-Mansiysky Bank, the bank’s Executive Director for International Business Yuri Lekarev said at a banking forum in London, RIA Novosti reports. The bank announced earlier than its share in Khanty-Mansiysky Bank would go down from 31.31% to 7.79% as part of the banking group’s internal restructuring program; the shares were handed over to Nomos-Bank’s two daughter enterprises. The group controls 51.29% of Khanty-Mansiysky Bank’s shares altogether. Now the privatization of the state-owned 44.2% shareholding in the bank

Tyumen Region division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service declared that the fuel filling station Roschino-GSM, the daughter enterprise of LUKOIL Aero, violated the antimonopoly legislation, Interfax reports. According to the FAS’s press service, the enterprise violated the price-setting proceedings related to the service of filling airplanes with jet fuel. The Service says the filling station operating in Tyumen’s Roschino Airport included the expenses related to filling the planes in the price of the jet fuel, although there is a special rate for this service and it should be counted

Experts from Central Yekaterinburg Department of Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights agency) completed its inspection of Yekaterinburg-based IKEA-DOM located at 87 Metallurgov St, namely, of the Swedish food store, of non-grocery merchandise IKEA Yekaterinburg store, of Bistro café, of a speed-service store, and of an employee cafeteria. Some violations were detected in the course of the inspection. Following the inspection, seven people had to face administrative liability and pay thirteen fines altogether, with charges based on Articles 6.3., 6.6.,