April 23, 2015. Over 250 residents of Sverdlovsk Region were deceived by a company that promised to pay off their bank loans, Sverdlovsk Region division of the Internal Affairs Ministry’s press service reports. The police say the swindlers operated in Yekaterinburg, Verkhnyaya Salda, Nizhniy Tagil, Nizhnyaya Tura, Kachkanar, Krasnouralsk, Serov, Severouralsk, Kushva, Kamensk Uralsky, and Krasnoturyinsk. ‘Victims signed an agreement with the company to provide 50% of the original loan sum, while the firm promised to pay the bank in full,’ the press service says. The company offices closed down

April 23, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation is taking part in TranRussia, a major international transportation and logistics services and technologies exhibition at Krokus Expo in Moscow. The exhibition opened on April 21. This is the second time the corporation and its daughter enterprise UVZ Logistic have joined the exhibition. UVZ Logistic has managed to become a major railway shipments market player and one of Russia’s top five freight forwarders with 42,000 freight cars since the day it was founded four years ago. Uralvagonzavod Corporation presents its

April 23, 2015. Yekaterinburg Radio Equipment Plant might decide not to pay any dividends for the year 2014; this is what the Board of Directors suggested that the shareholders vote for at the annual general meeting. ‘Our recommendation is to support the proposed profit distribution scheme and not pay any dividends for the year 2014,’ the plant reports.

April 23, 2015. Refinskaya Power Station (a member enterprise of Enel Group) is responsible for one-third of the overall environmental pollution caused by Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises, Interregional Environmental Prosecutor Larissa Larina said in her interview to UrBC. ‘Companies in the energy sector are the primary pollution agents in our area, and Reftinskaya Power Station is the biggest problem. The station still produces 33% of all the harmful emissions in Sverdlovsk Region. A scheduled inspection was carried out there last year, with Rospotrebnadzor checking its compliance with

April 23, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant hosted an off-site meeting of Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly. Members of Social Policy and Infrastructure Development & Housing Policy Committees talked about ways in which large industrial companies and government authorities could cooperate to promote social partnership and improve the city infrastructure, the corporation’s press service reports. Uralvagonzavod HR Director and Nizhniy Tagil Duma deputy Sergey Saranchuk said the plant was implementing its Social Development Program, with focus on physical education and