January 17, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation was commended for 'taking part in charity events, impressive corporate social responsibility, and direct help to those in need in 2013'. The corporation spent over 240m RUR on charity last year, the company's press service reports. 'A thank-you letter was addressed to the corporation's Director-General Oleg Sienko and the entire worker team and signed by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Sverdlovsk Region Prime Minister Denis Pasler, Chair of Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly

January 17, 2014. Rostechnologii State Corporation no longer controls Yekaterinburg-based Start, the joint stoc company's official message states. The corporation used to control over 50% of votes within the issuer's supreme governing body. This is no longer the case since Rostechnologii do not have a share in the business any more. Start deals in the production of multiple artillery rocket systems and air defense systems for the ground forces, production of missile munitions for the Navy and the aviation sector, and in the production of civil goods such as Bladder Bags and fire

January 17, 2014. Sinara Development (a member of Sinara Group) put up the first section of an apartment building called Kometa in Bebel St in Yekaterimburg. The section was commissioned three months ahead of schedule, the commissioning permit was obtained in late December 2013, the company's press service reports. 'The 14-storey section with an office for the condominium staff is the first part of this three-section, multi-storey building called Kometa. In January, the developers handed over the apartments to 80 families. The first (and the highest) section was supposed to be

January 17, 2014. In 2013, power generating unit 3 (operating via BN 600 reactor) at Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station produced more than 4,120,294,000 kilowatt-hours of electric power, the station's Information & PR Department reports. Speeding up all the jobs realting to the consturction of power generating unit 4 with BN 800 reactor was the station's other important achievement last year. These jobs included filling the primary and secondary storage tanks with sodium, installing electric current supply at Kurchatovskaya power substation, providing electricity supply for the

January 17, 2014. Birzhevoy Leader carried a rating of Russian banks' popularity on the Internet based on the data provided by Yandex and on the number of followers within social network groups. In terms of Yandex search queries, VUZ-Bank is one of the top twenty banks that customers look for most often, the bank's press service reports. 21,988 queries were made relating to VUZ-Bank over the last month alone. In terms of the number of registered users in VKontakte, VUZ-Bank is also one of Russia's top twenty banks: VUZ-Bank's group currently has over 2,000 subscribers. All

January 17, 2014. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was No.1 in the rating carried by Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt magazine (in the category denoted as Flat Stock Supplies); it was also given the second position in the Deep-Level Processing Goods category and the fourth position in the Rolled Section Steel Supplies category. MMK METIZ was given the third position among Russia’s metal goods producers. MMK Trading House was also among the best in the Trading Firms category. The rating was based on the votes submitted by visitors to a portal called Metalinfo.ru, who commented on which