Mercedes Benz RUS is looking for regional investors with experience in the automobile business to set up Mercedes Benz dealership centers. The company explains that what they have in mind is the sales and after-sales services centers for passenger and low-tonnage vehicles in Bryansk, Kurgan, Kursk, Murmansk, Novokuznetsk, Orel, Petrozavodsk, Pskov, Smolensk, Tambov, Ulyanovsk, Veliky Novgorod, Vologda, and Yekaterinburg. They also need maintenance centers for passenger and low-tonnage vehicles in Kazan and sales and after-sales services centers for passenger and low-tonnage vehicles in

Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities for transportation and the state inspector from the interregional electricity- and energy-generating equipment surveillance department checked Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg for compliance with the legislation that regulates issues relating to operation, maintenance and repairs of electricity-generating units at the airport. The inspection had to do with the short circuit failure in Terminal A security check lounge on January 12, 2011. It was detected that the circuit failure had been caused by a violation of the rules set for technical

RosTransAvto became the official dealer of a major Turkish holding SANKO MAKINA San. ve Tic. A.S. The company now supplies SANKO MAKINA’s excavator-loaders and telehandlers under MST brand. Over the last few years, SANKO MAKINA has been gaining more and more popularity in the ’middle-class’ market segment thanks to the best value for the money it offers. All the machinery acquired from the official dealer RosTransAvto is protected by warranty.

Russian Railways Public Company suggested treating every deficiency in large-scale car casting as a potential breaking-off point and therefore calling off the manufacturing plant’s certificate of compliance, the company reports. Now in 2011, 24 solebars got broken, including 14 cases when this was the Ukrainian Azovelectrostal and the Ukrainian Kremenchug Steel-Casting Plant’s fault (11 and 3 cases, respectively). Besides, 12 solebars of freight bogies got broken this year, including four bogies made by Azovelectrostal and four more bogies produced at Ukrainian Kremenchug Steel-Casting Plant.

The Secretary-General of Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales came to Yekaterinburg on a business visit. He started his tour of the city with a meeting with Russia’s acting Industry & Trade Minister Denis Manturov, who chairs EXPO 2020 application committee. The BIE top official then paid a visit to the Cathedral on Blood in the company of Governor Alexander Misharin, EXPO 2020 Application Committee’s DG Eric Bugulov, Russia’s Deputy Industry & Trade Minister Georgy Kalamanov, Russia’s Soviet of the Federation member Arkady Chernetsky, and

The potential sites for hosting EXPO 2020 in Yekaterinburg look suitable for the World Universal Exhibition and will promote the city’s dynamic development, the Secretary-General of Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales said after he took a tour of the city in the company of Governor Alexander Misharin. Loscertales visited the international exhibition center Yekaterinburg EXPO – one of the potential sites for hosting the world fair. He was updated on the plans relating to the development of the area which has been dubbed Novokoltsovsky District, and was also

The Secretary-General of Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales will be working in Yekaterinburg tomorrow. This is the official’s first visit to Yekaterinburg, and it should give the secretary-general an opportunity to personally get acquainted with the city and meet both the representatives of EXPO 2020 application committee and the municipal and regional government officials in order to discuss Yekaterinburg’s application process and look into the details of the announced theme: Global Mind: Uniting All Humanity in a Single Conversation’. Loscertales is

A consortium of investors comprising the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RFPI), RusEnergo Fund, Xenon Capital Partners, and the infrastructure fund Macquarie Renaissance signed the papers on the acquisition of a 26.43% shareholding in Enel OGK-5 from Inter RAO UES. The deal was approved of at Inter RAO UES BOD meeting. It is reported that the Russian Direct Investment Fund is investing $137.5m in the deal, while the other consortium members contribute $487.5m. The transaction amounts to a fixed $625m payment and an additional sum of up to $125m. The buying-in process will be completed after

Khanty-Mansiysky Bank insists that Ural Instrument-Making Plant be declared insolvent; this was the claim the bank placed with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court. The date of the preliminary hearing of the case has not been set yet. In fact, this very same court is now processing a number of claims laid by the plant against the bank, for one, the claim where the plant insists that the mortgage on a boiler house and a land allotment in Sverdlovsk Region’s Sysert District be declared free of encumbrances, and the claim where the plant insists that the encumbrances on the mortgage on

The South African Republic’s authorities are planning to set up the country’s honorary consulate in Yekaterinburg, the SAR’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia Mandisi Mpahlwa told Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin at today’s meeting. ‘The Urals are crucial to Russia’s economy. So we have decided to make the necessary effort for us to be present in Yekaterinburg in this or that form. I would like to officially notify you that setting up the SAR’s honorary consulate here is one of the options we are considering,’ the Ambassador said. Alexander Misharing

Byelorussia-based Minsk Automobile Plant is considering setting up automobile trailers production facility at Ishim Machine-Building Plant, the Governor of Tyumen Region’s press-service reports. ‘The first talks with the representatives of Minsk Automobile Plant were held in January, and now experts have paid a visit to the enterprise, looked at the available sites, and assessed their potential. The Byelorussian Honorary Consul in Tyumen Region’s Assistant Sergey Yefimchik says that the representatives of the plant and those of Mogilev Bus Plant are going to draw up a business plan on the new

Salekhard Airport’s net profit decreased by 26.6 times in 2011 compared with 2010 and came to 818,000 RUR, the airport’s report says. At the same time, the company’s revenues rose by 13.66% last year against the year before and amounted to 655.42m RUR, Interfax-Ural reports. The company’s report explains that the drop in net profit was caused by the fact that Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District’s Economics Department issued an order that set jet fuel storage and aircraft filling charges at a level below the prime cost of these services.

EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Plant (KGOK) increased its atmospheric emissions by 13.9% in 2011 compared with 2010 due to greater production output and the use of worse quality coke. The emissions of Bogoslovskays power station at TGK-9’s Sverdlovsky subsidiary rose by 23.8% because of increased share of coal in the total volume of burnt-up fuel; Svyatogor’s atmospheric emissions went up by 6.6% because the company started producing more crude copper. launched its Shimursky and Novo-Shimursky mines, and put up the second extension to its Severo-Zapadny mine; EVRAZ Vysokogorsky

Not a single Russian university was presented in The Times’ World Reputation Rankings. The rating is completed by the newspaper’s influential supplement Times Higher Education with support from the information group Thomson Reuters and the public opinion research service Ipsos Media. For the last eight years, the three parties have been coming up with an annual rating of the world’s higher educational establishments called World University Rankings. The ranking is based on the level of educational and research programs, citation indices of articles published, the number of international

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service considered the petition placed by Luxembourg-based holding company ITW Participations Sarl regarding the acquisition of a 99.9% stake in Penta-Ural, the Yekaterinburg-based artificial resin, primary plastics, industrial chemicals, synthetic rubber and resin, and polymeric materials trader, and decided to approve of the transaction.

Secretary-General of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) Vicente G. Loscertales will take a look at the site of Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum Innoprom in the course of his visit to Yekaterinburg, the city council reports. The official is to arrive in Yekaterinburg this Saturday. In the course of his visit, Loscertales is to meet the top officials of Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region and representatives of the national application committee; the meeting will be dedicated to Yekaterinburg’s prospects of hosting the world universal fair and to

In 2011, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) delivered 461,000 tons of metal goods to Russia-based car manufacturers, which was 13.5% more than a year earlier (406,000 tons). All in all, the share of goods the company ships to the automobile industry enterprises rose from 6.4% in 2010 to 7% in 2011, MMK reports. The company’s key car-making customers are AvtoVAZ, KamAZ, and GAZ Group. One of MMK’s current strategic goals is turning the company into the leading metal goods supplier for the Russian automobile industry. To achieve this, the enterprise is about to launch the modern

Sverdlovsk Region-based Reftinskaya power station (the asset of Enel OGK-5) reduced its atmospheric emissions by 21.4% in 2011 compared with 2010 due to decreased electric power output, less heavy use of coal, and the need to stop power-generating unit 5 for reconstruction. The emissions of Gazprom’s Gazprom Transgaz Yugorsk went down by 15.3% due to cutting back on the amount of scheduled preventive repairs of pipeline sections and therefore reduced methane emissions; Rezhnickel’s atmospheric emissions declined by 14.6% because the company’s production output shrank and the plant stopped

‘Our jet fuel price must correspond with the market reality. We have no intention of either dumping or overpricing, we are forbidden to do so by the antimonopoly legislation,’ says Koltsovo Filling Station’s Director-General Andrei Gigovsky. The completion of TNK-BP’s acquisition of Koltsovo Filling Station, the jet fuel storage and filling operator at Yekaterinburg’s airport, was announced on March 11, 2012. Now Koltsovo Airport is considered to be one of Russia’s most expensive airports to fill one’s planes in. The legitimacy of jet fuel prices the airport offers has been repeatedly

In 2011, Enel OGK-5’s enterprises dumped 313,000 tons of pollutants in the air, which amounted to 28.4% of all the emissions in Sverdlovsk Region last year. This was the largest figure among Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises in 2011. These data are available from the state report on the environmental situation in Sverdlovsk Region in 2011. Enel OGK-5 runs Sredneuralskaya and Reftinskaya power stations in Sverdlovsk Region.