February 11, 2013. Renowned sports players and Russian State Duma deputies — the Olympics free callisthenics champion Alina Kabayeva and the former world boxing champion in the super heavyweight category Nikolai Valuyev attended the closing ceremony of Ural Federal District’s Female Boxing Championship coordinated in Nizhniy Tagil by Natalia Ragozina. These honorary guests took part in the awarding ceremony and paid a visit to Uralvagonzavod’s famous armored vehicles museum, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press officer reports. The world professional female boxing

February 11, 2013. MMK Metalurji, a member of MMK Group, produced 68% more steel in 2012 than in 2011. All in all, 790,000 tons of steel were made at MMK’s Turkish production site last year. MMK Metalurji raised its sales both on the home market and outside Turkey. For one, 25% more galvanized rolled stock was exported from Turkey in 2012 than a year earlier. ‘Given the current economic situation in Europe, this is great success,’ MMK Metalurji Sales Director Mehmet Cakmur said in his interview to the Turkish specialized magazine Steel Orbis. Last year, MMK Metalurji managed to attract more

February 11, 2013. As of January 1, 2013, all the municipal enterprises and organizations based in Sverdlovsk Region owed 160m RUR to SverdlovEnergoSbyt (against 120m RUR a year earlier), the energy supplier’s press service reports. The company’s analysts say that the town of Ivdel turned out to have the greatest debt at the start of 2013 (16.5m RUR, which is 114 times more than at the beginning of 2012); this town is followed by Talitsa, with its 8.1m RUR worth of unpaid electricity bills (this is 1.35m RUR more than a year earlier), Bogdanovitch, with its 7.1m RUR worth of debts, Tugulym,

February 11, 2013. A number of employees from the German company DMG Russland (a member of Gildemeister AG) are going to take part in the Innorpom exhibition once again this year; they will give some master classes using their machinery. The 60-sq-m pavilion will house a live demonstration of spare parts treatment, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. Gildemeister is a major manufacturer of innovational hi tech machines and one of the global leaders. Its wide product range also covers software and energy solutions. According to Sverdlovsk Region Minister

February 11, 2013. Ural Airlines took a very visible part in the special events dedicated to the 90th anniversary of civil aviation in Russia, the airline’s press office reports. For one thing, the company prepared something special for its long-service employees, coordinated a solemn reception Sverdlovsk Region government officials and business community representatives, and is planning to take part in the All-Russian RosAviaExpo exhibition on Moscow as well as in the awarding ceremony for the aviation industry’s best employees in the State Kremlin Palace. To celebrate the anniversary, Ural