May 15, 2013. 33 graduates are going to work as interns at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant this year. The one-year internship’s primary goal is professional and social and psychological adjustment of former students and their getting practical and organizational skills as well as understanding their jobs’ specific nature and looking at their departments and the company’s scientific and production performance, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The interns get employed at the technological institute, the large nodes division, the mechanization & automation design

May 15, 2013. MegaFon announces some changes in the Ural branch management. Anna Belosheikina, the former head of MegaFon Ural IT Department, was appointed Director of MegaFon Ural’s Sverdlovsk Region division, the mobile carrier’s press service reports. In her new position, Ms Belosheikina is going to keep on implementing the company’s strategy aimed at technological leadership and building up on the Mid-Urals market share. Ms Belosheikina’s top priority as a director is to reinforce MegaFon’s status in Sverdlovsk Region as that of a reliable telecommunications provider who offers good

May 15, 2013. ‘Sverdlovsk Region’s trade market is still one of the largest ones in Russia. Every year, our output keeps on growing, and in 2013 the region’s retail trade turnover is expected to reach about 1 trillion RUR,’ says the region’s Deputy Agriculture & Foods Minister Tatiana Popova. Sverdlovsk Region’s retail trade turnover came to 858.8bn RUR last year, which was 12.3% and 6.4% more than a year earlier in actual and comparable prices, respectively, Sverdlovsk Region Government Press Service & Information Department reports. The region’s retail trade network currently comes

May 15, 2013. Yekaterinburg Leninsky District Court declared the person who masterminded a number of pyramid schemes, Alexei Kalinichenko, guilty of large-scale fraud (Article 159 (part 4) of the Russian Federation Criminal Code). The trader, who is accused of having stolen over 1bn RUR, got 7.5 years in prison, a UrBC observer reports from the court room. According to the investigative team, in 2003 Kalinichenko set up Livingston Investment, OOO Global Gaming Expo, and OOO UTG to borrow money from the unsuspecting customers, allegedly to use it for Forex interbank market trading. He promised

May 15, 2013. Slightly over 138,000 residents of Sverdlovsk Region registered with the state services web portal, which makes the region Russia’s No.4 among all the federal constituencies in terms of the number of registered state services portal users, Sverdlovsk Region Government Press Service & Information Department reports. The local residents are actually growing more active in their use of the portal that tries to react to their queries on the basis of ‘only one clerk principle. At the moment, 63 different e-services are available in the region, and by the end of the year, locals