OGK-5’s subsidiary Reftinskaya Power Station dumped 387,800 tons of pollutants in the air in 2010. This discharge figure was the largest among all of Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises in 2010. These data are available from the public report on the state of and protection of the environment in the Russian Federation in 2010. The public report on the state of and protection of the environment in the Russian Federation in 2010 was prepared by Russia’s Ministry for Natural Resources & the Environment in cooperation with the NGO International Projects Center, the interested ministries,

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court is to consider the claim laid by Rosprirodnadzor’s division in Ural Federal District against Serov Ferrous Alloys Works on February 17, 2012. The plaintiff wants the defendant to pay 18.32m RUR. According to the files of the case, Rosprirodnadzor’s division insists on the compensation of the damage done to the local soils (an environmentally protected asset) through chemical contamination, unauthorized waste dumping, and cover-up of the soil surface without a permit. Serov Ferrous Alloys Works reports that the environmental agency inspected the plant for

United Company RUSAL reports they are testing out the new technology aimed at recycling alumina production waste, that is, red mud. Once the testing has been completed, a pilot production unit will be designed and built at Ural smelter. The capacity of the unit will come to up to 200,000 tons of red mud a year; the launch has been scheduled for October 2014. Apart from UC RUSAL’s Ural smelter, Bogoslovsky smelter, Nikolayevsky alumina works, and UC RUSAL’s foreign alumina plants in Ireland, Guinea, Australia, and Jamaica will also be able to use the innovational machinery and alumina waste

The stockholder of cosmetics manufacturer Concern Kalina Igor Platonov insists that 2,844 shares of the company were written off his personal bank account illegally. Platonov took the case to Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court, placing the claim against VTB Registrator and demanding that the entry made in the register of registered shares owners that stated that 2,844 ordinary registered shares of Concern Kalina (5th share issue, serial number 1-05-30-306-D, face value 70 RUR apiece) had been written off his personal account No. 6838, registered in the name of Igor Ivanovitch Platonov, be

The German railway enterprise Deutsche Bahn’s daughter enterprise DB International GmbH is getting ready to purchase the shares of The Industrial Urals-The Polar Urals Corporation, DB International GmbH’s letter to the corporation’s management makes clear. The letter states, for example, that DB International GmbH pays particularly close attention to the flawless reputation of companies it is about to buy, and the corporation and question and its daughter enterprise UST were the object of unflattering rumors in the past. ‘We presume that the corporation has learned from its past mistakes and