Ural Civil Aviation Plant is now on the list of companies whose debt to the Russian Federation budget exceeds 1m RUR. These data (good as of March 15, 2012) were presented by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

Rostourism took 301 companies off its Unified Register of Tour Operators recently. For one, Yekaterinburg International Tourism Bureau Sputnik was among the excluded operators, the Association of Russian Tour Operators reports. According to what Deputy Head of Rostourism’s Legal Department Gennady Chutkin said at the Public Chamber meeting on changes in the tourist legislation, normally only about ten to fifteen companies get excluded from the register. ‘301 businesses is an impressive figure. They might steel be able to renew their financial guarantees and make it back to the register.

Ural Transport Machine-Building Plant is now on the list of companies whose debt to the Russian Federation budget exceeds 1m RUR. These data (good as of March 15, 2012) were presented by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

An investment committee chaired by Governor Alexander Misharin has been set up in Sverdlovsk Region. The Governor’s decree states that the committee’s key tasks are to improve the region’s investment climate, to promote a unified policy aimed at rational distribution of production forces throughout the area, to come up with proposals for the Governor concerning the local investment climate improvements, and to develop state-private partnership. Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Anatoly Gredin and the region’s Investments & Development Minister Mikhail Maksimov were appointed Deputy

Russian Railways Public Company is considering hiring foreign companies as consultants for the reconstruction of some railway stations in Russia, the company’s Railway Stations Directorate reports. The carrier’s experts are now elaborating the idea and are discussing it with the interested foreign companies. The task is to convert Russia’s railway stations into transportation and connecting hubs, RIA Novosti reports. For one, experts from AREP (Sociйtй Nationale des Chemins de fer Franсais/SNCF’s daughter enterprise) might be involved in the reconstruction of Krasnodar Territory-based railway