OOO ComsoMall Management Company is now involved in the case Megalomania Advertising Agency vs. Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service on a third party basis. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court’s preliminary hearing has been set for July 17, 2012. The FAS’s Sverdlovsk Region division found Megalomania guilty of an administrative offense. On March 11, 2012, the division declared that ComsoMall Shopping Center’s ad that read, ‘Siniye Kamni has people living there, too’ and ‘ZhBI is no ghetto’ was improper. The ad was distributed by Megalomania via billboards around

Sverdlovsk Region Government approved of the declaration of intent regarding the construction of a new generating unit in Beloyarskaya nuclear power plant. First Vice Premier Vladimir Vlasov pointed out this decision was expected to make a crucial contribution to the region’s stable socioeconomic development, the spokesperson for the Governor reports. The region’s acting Energy & Communal Housing Services Minister Nikolai Smirnov said the construction of a new power unit would also secure Russia’s technological leadership in the field of closed nuclear fuel cycle development. ‘The

UTair Airlines ATR 42 had to stop the take-off due to technical problems at Roschino Airport, Interfax-Ural reports. Ural Investigative Department for Transportation of Russia’s Investigative Committee’s press service reported on Tuesday that the incident occurred at 6:25 AM (local time) the day before. The plane did not fly to Nizhnevartovsk because of an engine failure. ‘According to the preliminary data available, the reason for the incident was that the left engine did not switch into the takeoff mode,’ the message states.

The International Airport Association (MAA) has been set up in Yekaterinburg. An agreement to this effect was signed during the aviation forum Routes CIS 2012 that was held in the Urals’ capital. The association was founded by the representatives of Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport, Moscow-based Vnukovo Airport, and Novosibirsk-based Tolmachevo Airport, Kommersant reports. The documentation needed to set up the association took about two years to prepare. The association founders announced that the association would later be converted into a self-regulatory organization. This means some

Rusal made its aluminum price forecast for 2012 more moderate: the figure dropped from $2,200 to 2,400 per ton to $2,100 to 2,200, says the company’s First Deputy Director-General Vladislav Solovyev. ‘The market situation is quite complicated at the moment; not only the aluminum but all commodities, in fact, including oil, are enjoying less demand. Things are unstable in Europe, and investors are backing out of risk-prone assets. We feel it is time to prepare for a prolonged recession,’ Kommersant quotes Solovyev as saying. A ton of aluminum cost $1,800 at LME yesterday; the average price