The court hearing regarding the eviction of Eye Microsurgery Yekaterinburg Center has been set for June 18, 2012. The claim to this extent was placed with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court by Russia’s Ministry for Healthcare & Social Development. The ministry demands that a number of premises, namely, detached buildings A (total area 13,401.6 sq m), B (total area 347.4 sq m), and D (total area 322.5 sq m) at 4A Bardin St in Yekaterinburg (the land allotment has the total area of 3.29 hectares) be handed over to the eye microsurgery clinic run by the Ministry.

The construction of a new building for Ural State University of Economics has to be postponed indefinitely, the university’s First Pro-Rector Maxim Maramygin told the portal E1. ‘the construction of this building is a difficult and time-consuming task that requires not only the rector’s office’s special attention but also a considerable contribution of money made by the faculty; at the same time, no budget subsidies are provided for this projects, while the Education Ministry forbade us to look for sponsors. The issue of resuming the construction process is now being considered, the

The first meeting of Uralmashzavod’s newly elected BOD took place recently. BOD Chairman of United Machine-Building Works Vadim Makhov was elected this Board’s Chairman. Uralmashzavod BOD appointed Andrei V. Saltanov the plant’s Director-General. Prior to his latest appointment, Saltanov was employed at United Machine-Building Works (OMZ) group in the capacity of the plant’s Deputy DG for Production and launched a number of successful development projects there.

A Finnair plane operating a flight from Yekaterinburg to Helsinki today had to go back to its airport of departure due to some technical problems, an Interfax reporter who happened to be on board the plane reports. The captain apologized to the passengers for the need to fly back to Koltsovo Airport but did not explain what exactly the problem consisted in. The plane landed at the airport thirty-five minutes after the take-off. No one was hurt.

OOO KESKO-Ural (now known as Kesko-Yekaterinburg-Center) lost the sixth out of sixth lawsuits against ZOOM ZOOM Photographers, a photo agency. In July 2011, Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court rejected KESKO-Ural’s claims against ZOOM ZOOM Photographers; the defendant insisted on being paid 223,000 RUR. The clash started when KESKO-Ural refused to pay the photo agency the money due for a photo shoot of the Yekaterinburg-based Novotel Hotel’s interior. ZOOM ZOOM Photographers placed a claim with the arbitration court. What is more, KESKO-Ural also placed a claim with the arbitration court,