Over 40 administrative lawsuits have been instituted in Sverdlovsk Region in relation to legal offenses at gas- and fuel-filling stations, the public prosecution authorities of Sverdlovsk Region report. Following an explosion that occurred at a filling station in Yekaterinburg on August 16, 2012 and a request placed by Russia’s Deputy General Prosecutor Yuri Ponomarev, the region’s prosecution authorities and experts from the monitoring agencies looked into the local filling stations’ compliance with the existing legislation in terms of location and maintenance. These inspecting procedures

Since the beginning of the year, court bailiffs have had 133 illegal immigrants deported from the country; 17 more people are now awaiting the court’s decision. Plane tickets for the deported cost 495,000 RUR to the region’s budget, with rates varying from 6,000 RUR for a flight to Kyrgyzstan to 32,000 RUR for a flight to Iran, Head of Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Court Bailiffs Service Sergey Schebekin announced at a press conference today. Out of these 133 illegal immigrants, 72 arrived from Tajikistan, 42 from Uzbekistan, 21 from Kyrgyzstan, 5 from China, 4 from Armenia,

The Association of Russian Managers and Kommersant Publishing House came up with their 13th annual rating of Russia’s leading managers. This year, the traditional list of Top1000 Russian Managers (the overwhelming majority of whom are businesspeople residing in the two capitals) was complemented by the Top1000 Regional Company Heads list featuring the most efficient heads of companies located in different parts of the country. Heads of 81 federal constituencies and heads of regional business organizations were invited to join as experts and to evaluate the performance of top managers in their

Deputy Director-General of Uralvagonzavod Corporation for Road-Building and Agricultural Vehicles Semyen Mlodik was featured in the 13th annual rating of Russia’s Best Managers, the corporation’s press service reports. Top List 2012 was compiled by the Association of Russian Managers and Kommersant Publishing House. The rating was based on the principle of ‘the best selecting the best’: Russian business leaders themselves acted as experts. The factors that mattered were the candidates’ compliance with the international standards and ethical norms in what they did, the extent to which this

On September17, 2012, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service declared Russian Railways and RoszheldorProject guilty of violating Article 10 (part 1) of the Competition Protection Act, the agency’s press service reports. Legal action was taken on November 24, 2011 following an appeal by SNT Parus regarding Russian Railways and RoszheldorProject violating the Competition Protection Act. Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service detected that on November 10, 2011 RoszheldorProject, acting on behalf of Russian Railways, and SNT Parus signed