Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service ruled that UC RUSAL Trading House violated Article 10 (part 1, paragraph 8) of the Federal Competition Protection Act. The offense consisted in UC RUSAL Trading House refusing to supply KR-1 silicon to Permtsvetmet in August-November 2010, even though the two companies had signed a shipment agreement, the supplier received the applications for the supply of goods at determined prices, and there was every possibility of delivering the goods in question. The FAS committee thus came to the conclusion that UC RUSAL Trading House’s systematic failure to

First Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg Sergey Shvindt coordinated a meeting to check on the progress of Yekaterinburg’s application portfolio for the world football championship in 2018. Shvindt observed that the portfolio was quite an extensive file whose preparation involved nearly all the divisions of the city council. This is actually a sort of an investment program that gives the reader an idea of what and how much should be invested in the development of the city’s infrastructure to prepare the place for the championship. This means that the portfolio includes sections on the sports and

RosTransAvto was selected as the official dealer of the large Turkish holding SANKO MAKINA San. ve Tic. A.S., the company reports. RosTransAvto delivers SANKO MAKINA’s MST-branded machinery. The supplier’s excavator loaders are fitted with the same high quality joints and units as the ones found in the equipment made by the world’s leading manufacturers. For one, this includes Perkins engines made in Great Britain, the Italian-made Power Shift-type Carraro automated gearing system with an electronic control unit, Casappa hydraulic pumps made in Italy, and the U.S.-made Husko hydraulic

Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and the region’s Minister for Industry & Science Alexander Petrov offered some comments on receiving a punitive reprimand for combining state service with being the Managing Director of Reltec International s.r.o. based in the Czech Republic. The information to this extent was earlier checked on by the regional public prosecution authorities. It was revealed that in 2005-2011, Petrov was the Managing Director of a profit-making company ReltecInternationals.r.o, whereas under the existing legislation, a member of Sverdlovsk Region Government

The designers of Sinara Group’s Ural Locomotives and their Siemens AG counterparts are now developing a DC electric train, the ES2G Series Siemens Sinara City Express. The technical design specification was provided by the Russian Rail, while Desiro RUS (Lastochka) electric train that is now being developed for the Sochi Olympics will be used as the model for the new make. The Ural variety of the train will have a number of new technical characteristics, which is why a lot of additional designers’ work and implementation of new engineering solutions will be necessary. The Russian and the