May 7, 2013. Rosneft bought a dozenB-10M2 marsh bulldozers from Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ), Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The oil company ordered the vehicles with hydraulic-mechanical gear that makes the bulldozer easy to operate and a planetary final drive that enhances the reliability of the machine; all of the customer’s specifications were taken into account. The customer, one of Rosneft’s daughter companies, also demanded that the vehicle should be no more than 7 meters long, to make sure that these could be transported via a regular trawl. The blade is

May 7, 2013. The net loss of the state-run Yugoria Insurance Company rose by over 9 times in 2012 and amounted to 2,803bn RUR, the insurer’s accounting report (drawn up in accordance with the Russian Accounting Standards) states. The total amount of accumulated insurance premiums shrank by 5% down to 8.685m RUR, while insurance payments increased by 7% and exceeded 5.8bn RUR, Insurance, a web portal, says. Thus the negative result from the insurance transactions amounted to 1.805bn RUR in 2012 against +979bn RUR a year earlier. In 2012, the Government of Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous District,

May 7, 2013. ‘Such high-profile events are typically held in Moscow, but Moscow is a rather developed city as it is. This is why Yekaterinburg was chosen. An initiative like this can result in two things: firstly, this is the event per se, and secondly, this is the area’s development,’ Russian Vice Premier and Head of EXPO 2020 Coordination Committee Arkady Dvorkovitch said in an interview to the Italian media. ‘We decided on Yekaterinburg for a number of reasons. This is a city with a rich history, even from the industrial point of view; this city is related to the Revolution of 1917 events

May 7, 2013. A new five-euro bill was put into circulation on May 2. The bill retained the old design with the antique arch, but it grew brighter and was given additional forging-prevention features. For example, the digit 5 that indicates the value of the banknote turned from grey to emerald green; besides, a protective thread and a relief print were added, SKB-Bank reports. Yet the main difference is that you can see the water mark and a hologram with a portrait of the mythical princess Europe on it on the bill. The entire series of the new banknotes was named after the princess: larger and

May 7, 2013. The property income tax imposed on private individuals living in Sverdlovsk Region increased by 9% on average in 2012, Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Tax Service states. The scaling factor was determined by the regional government’s decree 9-PP dated January 11, 2012 and amounted to 51.9 and 53.6. This means the taxation base rose by 9% in 2012 on the previous year. As far as private individuals’ income tax is concerned, the taxation base stems from the total inventory cost of the assets subject to taxation that belong to a taxpayer and are located within a single