Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court stopped the proceedings relating to the claim laid by the Ural Region’s strong drinks supplier ZAO SECOM against Kostya Tszyu Boxing Academy; the plaintiff originally insisted on being paid 50,000 RUR in accordance with the loan agreement. The claim was placed with the court by the plaintiff on March 23, 2012. SECOM’s Legal Department told UrBC earlier that the fund was lent 1m RUR, but the remaining portion of the debt, 50,000 RUR, had to be claimed in court, despite all the existing arrangements and the Academy’s promise to pay the money back. According

Uralmashzavod’s BOD meeting resulted in the decision to recommend that the stockholders vote for passing last year’s dividend in the course of the AGM. ‘We recommend that the AGM should pass and not pay any ordinary or preference share dividend for 2011 because of the losses incurred in the financial year 2011,’ the company’s report states.

The premise of an ex-retailer Technosila in Park House Shopping Center will now be used by H&M’s third Yekaterinburg store: the brand already runs outlets in Greenwich and Comsomall shopping malls. H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) is a Swedish business and Europe’s largest clothes-selling retail chain selling clothes.

Norway’s visa center will start operating in Yekaterinburg on May 10, 2012, the online portal TourBusiness reports. Norway’s Embassy in Russia signed an agreement with VFS Services LLC Russia that entitles the latter to accepting and processing applications for all visa types. ‘The Embassy has seen a record-setting number of applications over the last few years. Last year, our visa section issued 30,236 visas, which was the largest figure among all of Norway’s foreign representations in terms of applications submitted and visas issued. The agreement will result in considerable expansion of

Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights agency) offered some comment on the lethal whisky poisoning caused by a bottle of Hankey Bannister purchased at Krasnoye & Beloye store at 9 Manevrovaya St. in Yekaterinburg. ‘Central Yekaterinburg Department of Rospotrebnadzor’s Sverdlovsk Region division informs Yekaterinburg dwellers that a nineteen-year-old woman died from alcohol poisoning at a sauna located in the city’s Zheleznodorozhny District. She had some Hankey Bannister whisky,’ the agency reports. ‘A bottle of Hankey Bannister was bought at Krasnoye