The claim laid by Sverdlovsk Heat Supply Company (STK) against Enel OGK-5 will be heard in Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court on April 13, 2012. The claim is related to forcing the defendant to sign a heat energy supply agreement. The hearing of the claim began in December 2011 when STK went to court with a claim on forcing the defendant to sign a heat energy supply agreement with them on the plaintiff’s terms. The defendant provided a written renouncement of the claim, referring to the fact that the draft agreement on the energy and feed water supply No. 3215 they had received had actually

OAO TransContainer launched a freightliner between Saint Petersburg and Sverdlovsk Region, the railway operator’s press service reports. The first 57-carriage train took off from Saint Petersburg-Finlyandsky Station; the carriages were loaded with multi-tonnage containers belonging to other proprietors. Starting from April 2012, the freightliner is expected to be available two times a month.

The inquiry team is now busy confiscating the documentation of UTair Airlines following the airplane crash in the vicinity of Tyumen, Russia’s Investigative Committee reports. ‘The company’s technical and pre-flight documentation is now being confiscated,’ the message states. UTair’s pssenger plane ATR 72 flying from Tyumen to Surgut crashed during take-off. There were forty-three people on board, of whom thirty-two (according to the latest updates) were killed.

Ural Insturment-Making Plant has been placed on the list of companies that owe over 1m RUR to the Russian Federation budget. These data (as of March 15, 2012) were provided by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

A joint working team comprising the representatives of Seversky Pipe Plant and NL Agency under the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation will be working on an energy-saving project that will be implemented at the plant, the Governor’s PR Department reports. The Dutch energy-saving experts arrived in Sverdlovsk Region on March 29. Their two-day visit comprised a trip to the plant, where the plant’s management presented them the company’s production technologies and had a look at the Dutch party’s presentation on improvements in the field of energy-saving for