‘Deputy Chairman of Russian Federation Government Arkady Dvorkovitch will be in charge of EXPO 2020. He is to hold an Innoprom coordination committee meeting on June 25, 2012,’ says Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev.

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) fulfilled its obligations relating to the 01 Series exchange-traded debentures by redeeming 1.4bn RUR worth of bonds with the help of its own funds and by paying the coupon interest due in full, the company’s press service reports. 62.33 RUR, or a 12.5% annual interest rate, was paid per each 1,000-ruble inconvertible bearer bond. ‘The company always has met and keeps on meeting its creditor obligations. So redeeming the bonds within the offer is a routine event for us,’ says the plant’s Director-General Yaroslav Zhdan.

In March 2012, Sverdlovsk Interregional Public Prosecution Authorities for the Environment checked the compliance of some local companies with the legislation on safe operation of hazardous production facilities. The inspection involved VIZ, located at 28 Kirov St in Yekaterinburg. The inspection revealed that under its hazardous facilities registration certificate, VIZ has been operating one hazardous production facility (a steel enamelware production site), yet the enterprise had no license allowing it to operate explosion-prone production facilities at the time of the inspection. The

The Russian Federation Government is willing to sell nearly 1,500 joint stock companies by 2016, including such giants as Rosneft and VTB. However, the selling schedule does not have any fixed dates yet: the White House will have to take the worsening financial markets conditions into account, RBC daily writes. About 200 small and medium joint stock companies will be put up to auction by the fall of 2012; the sales are expected to yield about 300bn RUR to the budget, the Economic Development Minister Andrei Belousov said at a government meeting recently. The 2012-2016 privatization plan

Ural Airlines won in the city contest called Best Taxpayer. The contest was coordinated by Yekaterinburg Council and targeted at singling out the bona fide taxpayers who contribute to the city’s development. Our of fourteen candidates selected by the board of experts for the final voting, six best companies were picked out, including Ural Airlines, the air carrier’s press service reports. In 2011, Ural Airlines paid 617m RUR to the budgets and non-budgetary funds at all levels. The better part of this sum (192m RUR) was made in the form of obligatory retirement insurance; 173m RUR was made in