Sverdlovsk Region Health Minister Mikhail Sklyar resigns

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel announced at a press conference that he had accepted the resignation of the region’s Minister for Natural Resources Alexander Yastrebkov ‘Russian law prevents anyone over 65 from keeping this position, and this is the main reason why Mr. Yastrebkov has had to resign. I have, however, made a nice proposal regarding preparations for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit that might interest him,’ the Governor said.

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel accepted the resignation of First Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and region’s Minister for Industry and Science Vladimir Molchanov. Mr. Molchanov decided to leave office of his own will in order to become a retiree, the spokesperson for the Government reports.

The 2007 Ural-Yugra exhibition is going to be held in Surgut, Khanty-Mansiyskiy Autonomous Region. About 100 enterprises from Sverdlovsk Region as well as from the other regions of Ural Federal District (including Kalinin Machine Building Works, Uralvagonzavod, Uraltransmash, Uralelectrotyazhmash-Uralgidromash, Chelyabinsk-based Uraltrac, N.A. Semikhatov Scientific Production Association (Automatica), Ural Electro-mechanical Works, Pipe Metallurgical Company, and many others) are going to exhibit their produce. The regional delegation will be headed by Governor Eduard Rossel; among the other

Sverdlovsk Region Government considered a set of measures meant for improving the medical supervision of the region’s workers in 2004-2015. According to Health Minister Mikhail Sklyar, 311,316 people who operate in harmful and dangerous working conditions were examined last year; 2,044 people were diagnosed with professional illnesses. 8,844 people with different kinds of illnesses (including nearly 3,000 women) had to undergo regular checkups in health centers, with the patients being about 53 years old on average. At the end of the session, Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Viktor

Head of the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Administration Alexander Levin and First Deputy Head of Government for Economic Policies and Prospective Development, Minister of Economics and Labor Mikhail Maksimov took part in the recession-fighting team meeting under the Plenipotentiary Representation of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative Vladimir Krupkin. Mikhail Maksimov reported the unemployment rate remained virtually the same last week, with about 87,300 jobless registered in the region by August 26, 2009.