Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court’s hearing on Yekaterinburg Micro Eye Surgery Center’s eviction case will take place in July 2012. Russia’s Healthcare & Social Development Ministry insists on the center moving out of a number of buildings: A (13,401.6 sq m), B (347.4 sq m), and D (322.5 sq m) at 4a Bardin St in Yekaterinburg and on handing these buildings over to the ministry’s S.N. Fedorov Micro Eye Surgery Scientific Technical Center.

Itera O & G Company keeps negotiating with Viktor Vekselberg’s IES Holding regarding the acquisition of some natural gas-distributing assets in Sverdlovsk Region, Kommersant refers to Itera Chairman Vladimir Makeyev as saying. When asked about the progress of the negotiations at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, Makeyev said that ‘nothing has been paid yet’. He pointed out that eight natural gas-distributing organizations were operating in Sverdlovsk Region at the moment and said that both the authorities and the branch players were of the same opinion on the issue and that

Uralvagonzavod’s Foundry Shop 8 completed the installation of the Italian vacuum system Sibilia; the system is meant to make the cleanup of sand mixture spillage automatic. All the jobs amounted to over 14m RUR. Sibilia is a large industrial vacuum cleaner with the capacity of 37 kW. The dirt used to be blown off the production sites, but the new device will, on the contrary, suck the dirt inside a dust collector with the capacity of 4 cubic meters. The dirt will then be transferred onto waste disposal systems. This is actually not the first such facility Uralvagonzavod has installed. Some

Austria-based VTB Bank AG bought a 10% shareholding in Serov Ferrous Alloys Plant (a member of Kazakhstan-based raw stuffs holding Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC)), the plant reports. The bank did not use to have any stake in the plant before. ‘We believe it was ENRC who sold the shares to the bank, as about a month ago the holding informed us that they had sold a 10% shareholding in the plant,’ Interfax quotes a representative of the company as saying. It was reported that ENRC used to have a 78.5% stake in the plant, while OOO Industrial Metals held a 19.73% stake in the

Ural Airlines is going to act as the official air carrier of the international forum ROUTES CIS 2012; the forum will be held in Yekaterinburg on June 24-26, 2012. Ural Airlines is one of Russia’s largest carriers that keeps on expanding its network of destinations around the CIS, so it’s only logical that that the airline supports such a large-scale, important event in the aviation industry, the airline’s press service reports. The aviation forum Routes CIS will be held on the Russian territory for the first time this year. The event is usually attended by representatives of the major