Yekaterinburg Municipal Council announced the terms on which the municipal property located at 48A Lenin Ave can be privatized. The premises in question are the basement (Rooms 127-138, 142, 153-156, 190-199) and the semi-basement (Rooms 9, 1-49, 58, 63-67) with the total area of 1,147.7 sq m. These are non-residential premises subject to the terms of a rental agreement with OOO Polimettsentr that has recently been renewed for an indefinite period of time. OOO Polimettsentr is a legal entity in the possession of the restaurant Љvejk and a coffee place called Tchaikovsky. The proposed method

Sverdlovsk Region imported $36.8bn worth of goods and exported $8.51bn worth of goods in 2011, the region’s Minister for International & Foreign Economic Relations Alexander Kharlov said at the meeting of Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly’s Regional Policies & Local Government Development Committee. ‘The export of machine-building industry-related products amounted to $1.5bn in 2010 and shrank by nearly two times a year later. This was the case because we stopped shipping goods to Iran, formerly our key customer. Our enterprises buy $2bn worth of machine-building products

The American State Street Bank and Trust Company, one of the world’s largest financial institutions and one of the key players in the field, now co-owns Chelindbank: the bank bought a 6.64% stake in the business (53,500 shares), Marker reports. State Street Bank is part of the corporation by the same name, one of the United States’ leading providers of financial services to institutional investors. As of December 31, 2011, State Street was in control of $1.9 trillion, while its net profit dropped by 9% in the first quarter of 2012 and came to $427m. The bank’s quarterly revenues reached

Sverdlovsk Region Natural Resources Ministry rejected Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs’ request to replace the gross emissions reduction indicator with the carbon intensity per ton reduction one. In March 2012, the Union suggested to head of region’s government Anatoly Gredin that the carbon intensity limits recommended to a certain enterprise should be based on those employed for the world’s best mining and chemical & metallurgical enterprises. ‘In order to promote further production development, improve on the quality of machinery and technologies, create