Yekaterinburg Municipal Bank placed Yekaterinburg Duma Deputy Raphael Shikhov on the list of people who fail to meet their obligations. The founder of a household appliances and electronic goods chain is now featured under Antipartners heading on the bank’s official website. ‘This page offers some limited data on our customers, or, rather, on our ‘anti-partners’, both legal entities and private individuals. They vanished out of our sight without having met their obligations. No damage was done to the bank through these unscrupulous customers’ actions, but they could actually do some tangible

The 64th international industrial exhibition/fair Hannover Messe 2012 will be held in Hanover, Germany on April 23-27, 2012. The first fair was held as early as 1947 and it has always been a meeting point for manufacturers and suppliers of industrial produce as well as a place for sharing experience and for cooperating, for finding investment and for creating new partnerships. The fair offers abundant opportunities for both displaying and buying products and services for any segment of the production chain. Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Employers reports the region’s

United Company RUSAL’s Bogoslovsky smelter (BAZ) remains a loss-making business, the enterprise’s Director-General Vladislav Kazachkov said in his interview to Kommersant-Ural. ‘The plant’s losses came to about 180m RUR in 2011. BAZ is unable to compensate its aluminum production losses through the profits the alumina production brings. Sverdlovsk Region is faced with nonsense: BAZ has to pay the electric power price that is twice as high as that in Siberia and one and half times as high as in that in Sweden, where the electric power has always, in fact, been more expensive. In the production

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service allowed OOO Nezavisimost Management to acquire the rights to act as the sole executive body in regard of Ford and Mazda centers in Yekaterinburg. The motor shows in question are located in Bazovy Lane (OOO NEF) and Metallurgov St. (OOO NEP).

Yekaterinburg-based IT companies presented their products at a united Russian stand called Information Technologies in Science, Education, & Business in the course of the international exhibition CeBIT-2012 in Hanover, Sverdlovsk Region IT & Communications Ministry’s press service reports. This major international IT and telecommunication technologies fair was held on March 6-10, 2012. The exhibition is held every year starting from 1986 and is, in fact, one of the most important global events in the field. The united Russian exposition by Russia’s Education & Science Ministry