March 28, 2014. Ural Federal District’s foreign trade turnover amounted to $2.5bn in January-February 2014, Ural Customs Administration’s press service reports. ‘Most of this (82.9% of the total turnover) stems from trade deals with the countries of the far abroad, and only 17.1% stem from doing business with the CIS member states ($428.3m) Imports to the area amounted to 30.8% of our foreign trade turnover ($769.5m), while exports were twice as much and reached 69.2% of the total foreign trade turnover figures ($1.7bn), the press service says. The freight turnover came to 2,1m tons in

March 28, 2014. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) held a meeting on progress with fulfilling the state defense order for 2014. According to the corporation’s press service, the meeting was attended by representatives of the company itself as well as officials from spare parts supplier companies from different parts of Russia and the Defense Ministry. ‘The meeting was devoted to the essential aspects of fulfilling the state defense order for 2014, changes in the financing and pricing policies, and technical problems related to making special-purpose products as

March 28, 2014. Karabashmed’s upgrades and re-equipment program covers for a series of steps aimed at replacing machinery with the newer counterparts and putting up filtering facilities, Russian Copper Company Group’s PR & Social Policies Administration reports. The upgrades plan provides for both replacement of old equipment with the new one that is more productive and environmentally friendly and putting up of new production facilities. The construction of another vitriolic shop is the key project within the process of the company’s chemical and metallurgical unit reconstruction. The

March 28, 2014. 69 instances of money (and other types of assets) laundering were uncovered in Ural Federal District in 2013, Russia’s Deputy General Public Prosecutor in Ural Federal District Yuri Ponomarev said at an interdepartmental committee meeting in Yekaterinburg. ’32 criminal lawsuits were instituted directly on the basis of dossiers supplied by Rosfinmonitoring; the charges are based on Articles 174 and 174.1 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code. Following decrees issued by public prosecutors, Rosfinmonitoring took legal action against 133 people, with charges based on Article

March 28, 2014. Bank Koltso Urala’s self-service terminals (which started appearing in the city at the end of last year) are going to get foreign-language interfaces throughout 2014. Their interfaces are expected to be translated into at least 5 different languages, including English, Chinese, and Tajik, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Any cardholder (including those who use cards issued by other banks) can use Bank Koltso Urala’s self-service terminals. The money order option and foreign language settings for non-speakers of Russian will be the next step on the way to improvement,’ says