July 8, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) inspected TGK-9 in order to check its compliance with the sanitary-epidemiological requirements. The division’s press service reports that the inspection revealed a number of violations in the way the company processed production and consumption waste and other hazardous materials. For one, Novo-Sverdlovskaya Heat & Power Station did not comply with the waste accumulation limits and did not have the contracts and the reports of completion for the waste disposal jobs. So an administrative

July 8, 2013. Sinara Group changed the organizational structure of its daughter enterprise, Sinara-Transport Machines (OOO STM). According to the company’s press service, STM has grand plans on the implementation of transport machine-building projects ahead of it; besides, the market situation is quite favorable for the holding’s development, so on July 1, 2013, two new companies were added to it: OOO STM Management Company (OO UC STM) and OOO STM Trading House (OOO TD STM). The companies were set up by Sinara Group and Sinara-Transport Machines. Sinara-Transport Machines BOD appointed

July 8, 2013. A cooperation agreement will be signed by the Ministry for Industry & Innovational Policies of the Republic of Bashkortostan and Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Industry & Science; this will be done during the 4th Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum Innoprom 2013. Sverdlovsk Region Government Press Service & Information Administration reports that both parties are interested in expanding their bilateral cooperation, and the agreement will set out the directions of working together in trade, economics, production, and scientific and

July 8, 2013. Yekaterinburg will once again become a venue for international symposiums this year. On July 10-12, 2013, the Global Mind Symposium and a Ural-Africa Russian-African Economic Forum will be held in the Urals’ capital, the press officer of Yekaterinburg Administration reports. The forum will be attended by the representatives of some Black Continent republics: Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Djibouti, Congo, Togo, and Uganda. About 80 voting delegates of the BIE have so far confirmed their coming to the Global Mind Symposium as well; these are ambassador and high-profile diplomats from the

July 8, 2013. As Sinara-Transport Machines has large-scale plans to implement a number of transport machine-building projects and the market situation is quite favorable for the holding’s development, two new companies were added to it on July 1, 2013: OOO STM Management Company (OO UC STM) and OOO STM Trading House (OOO TD STM). The companies were set up by Sinara Group and Sinara-Transport Machines, STM press service reports. Sinara-Transport Machines BOD appointed Evgeniy Gritsenko the holding’s Director-General. Gritsenko used to be First Deputy DG and Sinara Group Executive Director. The