Bad roads in Sverdlvosk Region keep hindering vehicles, says Governor Eduard Rossel

‘Sverdlovsk Region has been trying to contribute to making Yekaterinburg a better place. We have already allotted 1 billion RUR for building road junctions this year, with another billion to be invested in 2008,’ says Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel. ‘The city is going to get environmental police responsible for a number of issues, including the state of the roads. The police will comprise 500 officers who will monitor the performance of local housing and maintenance companies. In case their cleanup efforts have little or no efficiency, these companies will be fined,’ the Governor

Yekaterinburg needs 14 road interchanges worth 20bn RUR, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel announced in the course of the meeting conducted by First Deputy Head of the Russian Federation Government Dmitriy Medvedev. Mr Rossel also dwelled upon the hurdles hindering the fulfillment of national Available Housing program such as the need for a lot of negotiation and lack of money needed to build roads and flyovers and renovate the streets. 750,000 square meters of housing will have been produced in Yekaterinburg by the end of 2006, with even greater amount of housing to be put up in

A group of delegates from Sverdlovsk Region, headed by Governor Eduard Rossel, is to take part in an economic forum in Baden-Baden, Germany, on April 16-19, 2008, the spokesperson for the Governor reports. The 9th Baden-Baden Economic Forum is one of the major international forums that the Governor normally takes part in every year. Eduard Rossel is going to make a report on Sverdlvosk Region in the course of the forum’s second section devoted to regions as the driving force behind the foreign economic cooperation and presentations of their foreign economic potentials. In addition, the

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel had a meeting with Minister for Employment and Economic Development Mauri Pekkarinen during his visit to Finland. In the course of the meeting, the Governor suggested that FinnAir might be interested in operating a number of transit flights bound for Korea, Japan, and other countries of Asia-Pacific Region through Yekaterinburg

'I am very dissatisfied with both Sverdlovsk Region Railways’ investment plan and its current condition,’ Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel said at a press conference on October 31, 2007. The Governor feels the problem needs to be solved in the nearest possible future, as poor railways are hindering the region’s economic development. 'We have to be dealing with the railway issues faster than with the economic ones,’ he observed.