UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 27, 2012. It appears that Sverdlovsk Region Traffic Administration and TransSibUral’s partnership violates the existing law in some respects, the response of Ural Public Prosecution Authorities for Transpiration to Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly’s Duma deputy Andrei Alshevskikh states. ‘An investigation was carried out regarding your query on Sverdlovsk Region Traffic Administration allegedly lobbying the interests of TransSibUral, the structural division of Central Traffic Administration and a subsidiary of Russian Railways, in what regards freight

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 27, 2012. Bank Yekaterinburg intends to place itself on the list of the newly insolvent Cardinal TechnoPlus’s creditors. It was reported to UrBC that the application for determining the scale of the creditors’ claims has already been submitted to Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court judge in charge of the bankruptcy case. The application for declaring Cardinal TechnoPlus insolvent was placed with the court by the company’s liquidator E. Tsyganova. The reason for placing the application was that the amount of creditors’ claims which the debtor did not contest exceeded

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 27, 2012. France, Iran, and Byelorussia are going to present their country stands at the international industry and innovations forum/exhibition Innoprom that will be held in July for the third time this year. This year’s forum is expected to feature over 400 businesses from Russia, the United States, Germany, Denmark, France, the Czech Republic, Iran, and Turkey. Many enterprises decided to present their stands on a larger scale this year compared to last time. For one, Siempelkamp, the wood processing, nuclear, and casting machinery manufacturer, will expand its

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 27, 2012. EXPO 2020 Yekaterinburg Application Committee launched its EXPO 2020 Ambassador project recently. This means domestically and internationally recognized representatives of the artistic, cultural, political, business, and educational communities will be supporting Yekaterinburg’s campaign for hosting EXPO in 2020. The ‘Application Ambassador’ is a voluntary and non-profit status. The ambassadors will mainly have to spread the ideas and the values of the universal fairs in general and of EXPO 2020 Yekaterinburg Project in particular. This year, over thirty

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2012. According to Tyumen Customs’s statistics, the foreign trade turnover in the customs area exceeded $504m in the first quarter of 2012. 94.4% of all the transactions involved the countries of the far abroad, and 5.6% involved the CIS member states. Imports reached 18.8% of total foreign trade turnover, while exports came to 81.2%, Ural Customs Administration’s press service reports. Tyumen Customs area’s top foreign trader partners were Turkey (its share in the total foreign trade volume came to 23.2%), Poland (16.2%), Finland (16.2%), the Netherlands