Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works dumped 66,100 tons of pollutants in the air in 2010. This discharge figure was the one of 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,

Under the existing tenant agreements, H&M is supposed to open its outlets in MEGA Ufa and MEGA Samara in the second quarter of 2012, while outlets in MEGA Parnas, MEGA Yekaterinburg, and MEGA Nizhniy Novgorod will be opened in the third quarter of the year. This means the Swedish brand’s stores will be found in eight MEGA malls in a number of Russian regions. As for Yekaterinburg, H&M stores already operate in Greenwich and ComsoMall shopping malls.

F Event (Formica Company) placed a claim against Innoprom and an NGO called Regional Politics Institute with the arbitration court, Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court’s website states. The company, which used to do business with the defendants in the course of Innoprom 2011 exhibition, insists that the deal effected by loan agreement 2/IRP-311 dated July 19, 2011 be declared invalid; the plaintiff also asks for the consequent procedures for an invalid transaction to be enacted as Innoprom, in the course of going through with the deal, violated the requirements set by the law for large-scale

Russian Direct Investment Fund and Strategic Initiatives Agency are to coordinate a visit of the major international funds’ representatives to Yekaterinburg and their meeting with the regional authorities and the local business community on February 15, 2012, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s PR Department reports. The visit is part of a regional tour organized by the two organizations in order to attract long-term foreign investments in Russia’s economy and to improve the country’s investment image one the federal and regional scale. A number of Sverdlovsk Region-based companies will be able

The passenger traffic at Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo International Airport rose by 19.3% in January 2012 in comparison with the first month of 2011. In fact, the number of passengers went up as far as flights in all directions were concerned: the number of travelers on domestic flights increased by 25% (against January 2011), that on international flights increased by 0.9%, and that on flights around the CIS increased by 80.5%. ‘The rise in passenger traffic has to do with the increased demand for air travel and, consequently, the emergence of new air carriers and the introduction of more