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13 September 200709:58

Rostechnadzor says Russian Chrome 1915 greatly exceeds waste water dumping limits

‘Russian Chrome 1915 did have a permission to dump a certain amount of manufacturing water in the local pond, but this permission actually imposed some very strict limits upon the company. However, the enterprise exceeded these limits considerably, which is why its top executives are to undergo a criminal trial now. Besides, we intend to go on doing our scheduled inspections,’ the spokesperson for the regional division of Rostechnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) Artem Kagarodov said to UrBC. Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities inspected the area near the village of
12 September 200711:22

SKB-Bank’s new ATMs introduced in Volgograd and Rostov Regions

SKB-Bank set up some new ATMs in the south of Russia, namely, in Volgograd and Rostov Regions. The 24/7 automatic teller machines can be found at 11 Turgenevskiy Lane in the town of Volzhskiy and at 74b Druzhby St. in Taganrog. This was Taganrog’s eleventh ATM belonging to SKB-Bank; as for Volzhskiy, the bank now owns six ATMs there. All in all, SKB-Bank’s ATM network covers nine Russian regions, with over 200 machines operating in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Tyumen Regions as well as in Perm Territory and Moscow.
12 September 200711:20

22 employees of Bogoslovskiy Aluminum Plant get project management expert certificates

Twenty-two employees of Bogoslovskiy Aluminum Plant (part of United Company RUSAL) have successfully undergone all the testing procedures and got international certificates that prove their expertise in the field of project management, UC RUSAL’s local press officer Roman Lukichev said to UrBC. ‘Today, project management is one of the most important mechanisms at play in a market economy. All the experts of Bogoslovskiy Aluminum Plant, including our chief alumina and electrolysis production engineers, economists, and developers felt they really needed some additional training to be able to
12 September 200711:16

Byelorussian authorities renew ChTPZ Group’s operating permit

The permit entitling one of Magnitogorsk-based plants belonging to ChTPZ Group to produce steam and hot water manifolds for heat supply facilities was renewed by Byelorussia’s Promatomnadzor (the state industrial and nuclear safety watchdog). The spokesperson for the company says trying to meet their customers’ increasing demand for power engineering equipment is one of their top developmental priorities at the moment. Russia and the CIS’ nuclear-power engineering giants are known to place orders with the plant on regular basis. According to Byelorussian law, all the equipment that is
12 September 200711:12

Uralmashzavod to supply CC machine equipment to Severstal

Uralmashzavod signed an agreement with Uralmash Metallurgical Equipment regarding the delivery of four segments and three other pieces of equipment for continuous casting machine to Severstal in April 2008. Uralmashzavod’s press officer reports the equipment is to be made using Uralmash Metallurgical Equipment’s engineering and lay-outs. The future products are meant for CC machine No. 2 made by Uralmashzavod in 2005 and installed in Severstal’s LD plant. The CC machine meets all the modern requirements and is capable of performing automated continuous casting operations on the level that
12 September 200711:08

Elita Travel says most people still choose to go to Egypt, India, and Thailand this fall

‘Most people still prefer to spend their vacations in countries like Egypt, India, and Thailand this fall. Our customers mainly choose to go to Egypt in September, India is normally the most frequently visited country in early and mid-October, whereas the end of October and the beginning of November are usually the days when travelers go to Thailand,’ one of Elita Travel’s leading experts Olga Voronova said to UrBC. ‘Most of our customers book stays at four-star hotels, with the average cost of a seven-day all-inclusive tour coming to about $700,’ she noted.
11 September 200713:04

Sverdlovsk Region’s budget revenues come to 68,355,300,000 RUR in January-July 2007

The regional Ministry of Finance reports Sverdlovsk Region’s consolidated budget revenues came to 68,355,300,000 RUR in January-July 2007, which makes up 62.6% of the annual plan. The region has already received 59.3% of individual income tax revenues for 2007, 54.3% of profit tax revenues, 76.1% of property tax revenues, 61% of excise duty payments, 89.8% of aggregate income tax revenues, 87.5% of fees for the use of natural resources, and 132.6% of non-tax revenues that had been planned for the year 2007. The budget expenses amounted to 58,947,300,000 million RUR, which comes to 52.3% of
11 September 200713:00

Public prosecution bodies to investigate calls for boycotting BALTMAN

Yekaterinburg’s public prosecution and surveillance authorities are going to investigate the origin of billboards placed in the city streets that call for boycotting BALTMAN chain store. The statements used in the ads are outright nationalist and xenophobic (some examples include phrases like ‘Shop in BALTMAN and help our enemies,’ or ‘BALTMAN go back to the Baltic States’). Moreover, the ads bear images of Adolph Hitler as well as swastikas and other nationalist symbols. In addition, Sverdlovsk Region’s media received a letter from The Bronze Soldier, a non-existent NGO. In it, the
11 September 200712:56

SKB-Bank gets on Russia’s Top 100 largest banks list in January-June 2007

The Kommersant newspaper came up with a list of Russia’s Top 100 largest banks; SKB-Bank can take pride in being one of them. According to Interfax-CEA, seven banks from the list (compiled on the basis of cumulated net assets) are based in the Urals, with three of them operating in Tyumen Region, another three operating in Sverdlovsk Region, and one bank operating in Chelyabinsk Region. SKB-Bank was rated 81st in January-June 2007, which is the best growth result among the Urals-based banks that were included in the rating. The bank’s net asset growth rate reached 28.6% in the first half of
11 September 200712:54

Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development rated 25th among 1,000 Russian banks

According to RBC.Rating, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was one of the most successful organizations among Russia and the Urals’ largest banks in January-June 2007. The bank was Sverdlovsk Region’s largest bank in terms of net asset volume (these grew by 13.72% compared to the beginning of the year) and in terms of deposit and loan portfolios (whose volumes went up by 13.14% and 33.01%, respectively, in January-June 2007). The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was also rated 25th among 1,000 Russian banks in terms of increasing volume of natural person deposits