Salekhard Airport’s net profit decreased by 26.6 times in 2011 compared with 2010 and came to 818,000 RUR, the airport’s report says. At the same time, the company’s revenues rose by 13.66% last year against the year before and amounted to 655.42m RUR, Interfax-Ural reports. The company’s report explains that the drop in net profit was caused by the fact that Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District’s Economics Department issued an order that set jet fuel storage and aircraft filling charges at a level below the prime cost of these services.

EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Plant (KGOK) increased its atmospheric emissions by 13.9% in 2011 compared with 2010 due to greater production output and the use of worse quality coke. The emissions of Bogoslovskays power station at TGK-9’s Sverdlovsky subsidiary rose by 23.8% because of increased share of coal in the total volume of burnt-up fuel; Svyatogor’s atmospheric emissions went up by 6.6% because the company started producing more crude copper. launched its Shimursky and Novo-Shimursky mines, and put up the second extension to its Severo-Zapadny mine; EVRAZ Vysokogorsky

Not a single Russian university was presented in The Times’ World Reputation Rankings. The rating is completed by the newspaper’s influential supplement Times Higher Education with support from the information group Thomson Reuters and the public opinion research service Ipsos Media. For the last eight years, the three parties have been coming up with an annual rating of the world’s higher educational establishments called World University Rankings. The ranking is based on the level of educational and research programs, citation indices of articles published, the number of international

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service considered the petition placed by Luxembourg-based holding company ITW Participations Sarl regarding the acquisition of a 99.9% stake in Penta-Ural, the Yekaterinburg-based artificial resin, primary plastics, industrial chemicals, synthetic rubber and resin, and polymeric materials trader, and decided to approve of the transaction.

Secretary-General of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) Vicente G. Loscertales will take a look at the site of Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum Innoprom in the course of his visit to Yekaterinburg, the city council reports. The official is to arrive in Yekaterinburg this Saturday. In the course of his visit, Loscertales is to meet the top officials of Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region and representatives of the national application committee; the meeting will be dedicated to Yekaterinburg’s prospects of hosting the world universal fair and to

In 2011, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) delivered 461,000 tons of metal goods to Russia-based car manufacturers, which was 13.5% more than a year earlier (406,000 tons). All in all, the share of goods the company ships to the automobile industry enterprises rose from 6.4% in 2010 to 7% in 2011, MMK reports. The company’s key car-making customers are AvtoVAZ, KamAZ, and GAZ Group. One of MMK’s current strategic goals is turning the company into the leading metal goods supplier for the Russian automobile industry. To achieve this, the enterprise is about to launch the modern