The stockholders of Uktus Airport intend to increase the company’s authorized capital. This is going to be one of the issues on the agenda of the annual general meeting scheduled for January 23, 2011. Now under Sverdlovsk Region’s public property management program for 2012 and the plan for 2013-2014, Sverdlovsk Region Government is planning to buy 200m RUR worth of Uktus Airport’s shares.

Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government’s press officer Evgeny Kharlamov explained the facts behind First Deputy Head of Government Mikhail Maximov signing a governmental decree. ‘Mikhail Maximov is going to sign the regional government’s decrees while Anatoly Gredin is absent. This was the case on December 17, for example, when Maximov signed the decree regarding the state guarantees offered by Sverdlovsk Region to OAO Ural Exhibition Center in 2011. Anatoly Gredin was away on business in Moscow at that moment,’ Kharlamov said. In fact, Sverdlovsk Region provided Ural Exhibition Center with

160 Russian railway stations will be fitted with the wireless Internet connection in 2012, Russian Railways’ press service reports. At the moment, twenty Russian railway stations can boast a Wi-Fi connection: the ones in Moscow, Moskovsky and Finlyandsky ones in Saint Petersburg, and the ones in Vologda, Nizhniy Novgorod, Vladimir, Cherepovets, Arkhangelsk, Yaroslavl, Pyatigorsk, Rostov, and Sochi, RZhD Partner reports. It is also reported that, in order to improve customer service for passengers and visitors to the railway stations, the baggage rooms have been converted to automated mode

The shareholdings of Khanty-Mansiysky Bank and of the insurance company Yugoria that currently belong to Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region will be placed on the list of assets to be privatized in 2012, the region’s State Property Management Department informed Interfax. ‘The date of the auction aimed at selling the shares of Khanty-Mansiysky Bank will be announced in the first quarter of 2012; the auction aimed at selling Yugoria’s shares will take place approximately in April or May 2012,’ the Department said. The state-owned shareholdings of Khanty-Mansiysky Bank and Yugoria were initially

This year, the representatives of Titanium Valley Management Company coordinated over three hundred meetings with companies and enterprises based in Western and Northern Europe, Southeast Asia, the United States, and Canada which could become potential residents of the special economic zone. Among the most important events of this kind were taking part in such exhibitions as Hannover Messe in Germany, MIPIM in France, Titanium in the U.S., and Innoprom, Russian Expo Arms, and MAKS in Russia. Most of the promotion activities are expected to take place in 2012, when infrastructure work begins