UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, April 6, 2012. Under the Russian Federation President Dmitri Medvedev’s decree the Director-General of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Boris Dubrovsky was awarded the Order of Honor. MMK executive was given the award for his ‘work achievements and many years of conscientious performance’. Boris Dubrovsky was born in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region on November 22, 1958. He graduated with honors from Magnitogorsk Mining & Metallurgical Academy in 1990 with a major in metal forming and from the Russian Presidential Academy of National

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. 3.9% of workplaces in Yekaterinburg’s Ordzhonikidzevsky district do not meet the sanitary and hygienic requirements in terms of air pollutants concentration; 6% of workplaces have excessive noise levels, and 3.8% of workplaces have excessive vibration, Rospotrebnadzor reports. In 2011, 26 instances of professional chronic illnesses were diagnosed in Ordzhonikidzevsky district; the greatest proportion of those was diagnosed at Uralmashzavod. In 2011, fifteen instances were diagnosed at the plant (compared with ten cases a year earlier). This came to 57% of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court looked into the clash between Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Consumer Rights Protection Surveillance Agency (Rospotrebnadzor) and Koltsovo Airport. Rospotrebnadzor’s regional division’s claims were considered to be well-grounded, legitimate, and accomplishable, the division’s press service reports. In 2011, the agency inspected Koltsovo Airport for compliance with the sanitary legislation, consumer rights legislation, and licensing requirements. The inspection revealed numerous violations of the sanitary and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. Beloyarskaya nuclear power station’s US BAES, the daughter company of Uralenergostroy that was set up specifically to supervise the construction and assembly jobs at the power station’s power generating unit BN 800, was featured in a bankruptcy claim submitted to Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court on April 2, 2012. The plaintiff’s representative Finishing Jobs Directorate 1 told the reporters that US BAES owed them over 7m RUR. For the time being, the court took no action regarding the claim. In fact, the court is also considering another claim laid by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. Koltsovo Airport’s spring- and summer-timetable came into effect at the end of March. The timetable offers flights to all the 98 available destinations, of which 58 destinations are international ones (of which 34 destinations are holiday ones, including those around the CIS), and 40 are domestic ones. Among the new destinations expected to be available are Harbin, Shardzha, Urumchi, Lenkoran, Gyumri, Kulyab, Noyabrsk, Vorkuta, and Makhachkala. More flights are now being operated to nearly all the popular summer holiday destinations. The number of flights

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. AstanaEnergoPromStroy & Co increased the sum of the claim against Beloyarskaya nuclear power station’s US BAES to 76.67m RUR. The sum comprises 61.53m RUR worth of unpaid work completed in accordance with the contractor’s agreement and 15.23m RUR worth of interest charged for using another party’s funds. In fact, the original sum of the claim placed with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court came to 73.98m RUR. US BAES tried to get the court to declare that the plaintiff had missed the action limitation period, but the court rejected the station’s