Yekaterinburg Electrical Network Company is going to present its new intellectual Smart Grid system at Innoprom 2012 exhibition on July 11-15, 2012, the company’s press service reports. The company’s stand will mainly be dedicated to presenting the potential and the stages of launching Smart Grid, a technology for building the smart distribution networks of the future, in Yekaterinburg electric mains system. The stand will provide information on the basics of building and operating Smart Grid, on the changing role of the consumer once the system has been launched, on the benefits the new

A Yekaterinburg dweller appealed to Sverdlovsk Region Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology, asking for legal advice on a clash she had with Rusfinance Bank, Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor reports. Her loan agreement provided for a monthly fee for the servicing of the loan account (1.7% of the total sum, or 15,000 RUR, or 2,550 RUR a month). Given that the loan period came to 36 months, the fees would total to 91,800 RUR altogether. Experts from the center helped the woman prepare a complaint to the bank that demanded that terms infringing on the consumer’s rights be eliminated

It has been detected that Perm Airlines violated aviation safety regulations, the spokesperson for Ural Public Prosecution Authorities for Transportation reports. The inspection by Perm Public Prosecutor for Transportation of how well the company complied with the aviation safety requirements revealed that the company violated them in some instances. For one, sometimes people accompanying passengers were allowed into the limited access zone during the preflight inspection, even though only passengers with tickets can be present there. The inspection also revealed that the premises used for

Uralvagonzavod and the French company Sagem Defense Securite (a member of Safran Group) signed an agreement of intentions. The document was signed by Uralvagonzavod Director-General Oleg Sienko and Sagem Defense Securite PDG Philippe Petitcolin, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. The ceremony took place on the first day of the 2nd International Forum on Machine-Building Technologies 2012 (TVM 2012) that was held in Moscow Region-based Zhukovsky on the premises of Rossiya Exhibition Center in Ramenskoye Airfield. Safran Group has been cooperating with the Russian industry in the field of

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on handing some of the state-owned assets over to Uralvagonzavod, Lenta.ru refers to the Kremlin website as stating. The shares of some companies currently owned by the state will become part of Uralvagonzavod’s authorized capital ‘in order to improve the structure’ of the company and ‘to develop its scientific, technological, and production potential’. Among the assets the state is handing over to the plant are a 42.5% shareholding in Tver Carriage-Making Plant (TVZ), 100% minus one share of Tomsk Electro-technical Plant, a 21.82% shareholding