Ural Builder LLC was unable to get Uraltransmash’s accounts seized: Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court rejected the company’s petition to that effect. Now Ural Builder placed a claim asking to make Uraltransmash make an advance payment (7.31m RUR) and the interest charged for using another party’s funds (150,730 RUR) with the court. At the same time, the plaintiff asked to take provisional measures, that is, to seize the defendant’s funds, including those getting transferred into the defendant’s bank account, or any other property of the defendant. When submitting the petition, the plaintiff

‘Facebook’s buying the Instagram app isn’t based on any market-oriented decisions. I believe Mark Zuckerberg’s reasoning was emotional rather than financial, like a billionaire’s decision to purchase a football club. The overall idea was this: we like this product, we’d like to make an impact on it. This is why one cannot estimate this acquisition in market terms,’ the Managing Partner of Projector Leonid Volkov told UrBC. Now the social network Facebook is buying Instagram, the popular application for creating and editing digital images, for about $1bn. ‘As for the Urals, we are not going to

Karabashmed signed a contract with CIMM Group Co., Ltd, the basic and detailed design business, for the delivery and installation of a set of machinery for the copper enterprise’s new vitriolic shop. Under this contract, the primary technological equipment is to be purchased in Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. According to Russian Copper Company’s Director for Chemical & Metallurgical Production Reconstruction Mikhail Borisov, the contract is worth $41.04m altogether. ‘The new vitriolic shop will be put up in compliance with the modern technologies and will

Ural Airlines is introducing additional Chita-Moscow flights: starting April 11, 2012, direct flights from Chita to Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport will be operated thrice a week (on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays) using the modern an comfortable A320 liner. These planes are fitted with a full scale business class section with comfortable wide seats, so the flight will seem short. Tickets for the new flight can be booked via the company’s website www.uralairlines.ru and in the booking offices, the airline’s press service reports.

RBC daily reports Bank24.ru (a member of Life Group) was able to prevent the stealing of over 300m RUR from its account via the company’s e-banking system. According to the newspaper, the cyber-criminals tried to use the bank’s accounts to transfer money stolen from the other banks’ customers using the e-banking system; however, Bank24.ru’s special division for incident investigation helped to detain more than ten offenders. The bank explains that their company was chosen by the criminals because Bank24.ru offers a customer-friendly e-banking package. ‘Our incident investigation team

RENOVA Group intends to consolidate a 100% shareholding in Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant; the latter has already received a proposal to this effect. In fact, RENOVA already owns 71.294% of the plant’s shares. The plant was offered to sell the said securities for 800 RUR apiece. The company has seventy days within the date on which the offer was made to accept it.

Yekaterinburg Municipal Council received the final plan for the repairs and replacement of heating mains in the Urals’ capital from the heat supplier TGK-9; this plan is part of the company’s preparations for the heating season 2012/2013. While the original plan provided for the replacement of 15 km worth of pipelines with the diameters of 500 and 1000mm, the final version covers the repairs and replacement of 18km worth of pipelines. ‘If one compares TGK-9’s last year’s figures and the plans for this year, it’s clear that the volume of network repairs is virtually the same in both cases. I’d

The Bank of Russia’s PR Department reports that its authorized representatives, acting in accordance with Article 76 of the Federal Law On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia), were appointed to seventeen lending institutions (as of April 1, 2012). For one, the representatives are now working at Alfa-Bank, Sberbank of Russia, Nomos-Bank, Khanty-Mansiysky Bank, and a number of other lending institutions.

A work meeting dedicated to Pirelli Russian Cup 2011/2012 was held at Yekaterinburg Central Stadium. The meeting was attended by experts from the Russian Football Union, some of the region’s ministers, members of Yekaterinburg Municipal Council, and representatives of the city and the region’s law enforcement authorities, and Central Stadium and Ural Football Club members. The members of the Russian Football Union presented their requirements for holding the Cup’s final game. Security was one of the important points on the agenda. The ticketing program, events for football fans, volunteer

The clash around Yekaterinburg EXPO exhibition center keeps unfolding. According to people from the construction company Rusgrad, the clash resulted in an actual takeover attempt at the construction site today. ‘Six men blocked the entrance to the construction site when the representatives of our DG tried to get there this morning. The men said they were employed with a private security firm but refused to produce any documents to prove it. The builders, who couldn’t enter the site, called the police; the arrival of the latter was obviously disconcerting to the men, but they did not leave,’

Starting April 17, Ural Airlines is offering a flight to a new destination: from Saint Petersburg to Yerevan and back. The flights will be operated every Tuesday using a comfortable A 321. The cheapest tickets are available for ?155 (one-way, excluding the fees). These can already be booked via the company’s website www.uralairlines.com and in the booking offices, the airline’s press service reports. Ural Airlines also operates flights to the Armenian capital that depart from Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, and Samara. These flights are operated on Thursdays, Tuesdays, and Mondays,

Svyatogor has been placed on the list of companies owing more than 1m RUR to the Russian Federation’s budget. This information (good as of March 15, 2012) was provided by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration court started looking into the clash between Uralmedstroy and Castorama RUS. This happened on the eve of Castorama’s opening in Yekaterinburg. The hypermarket in Shefskaya St, whose area comes to more than 10,000 sq m, is to start operating on April 21, 2012. According to the files of the case, the developer insists on being paid 5.16m RUR by Castorama RUS. The preliminary court hearing has been set for May 4, 2012.

Starting April 13, 2012, Belavia Airlines will no longer be operating flights to Yekaterinburg. This ban (involving a number of other Russian cities as well) was imposed by Rosaviation, Kommersant reports. The ultimatum delivered by Byelorussia to Russian air carriers resulted in yet another conflict escalation in the field of air travel. In response to Byelorussia threatening to limit the number of flights Russian airlines can operate from Moscow to Minsk, Russia’s Transport Ministry informed Byelorussia that, starting April 13, Belavia will also be unable to operate flights from Minsk to

DVI Ural has been placed on the list of companies owing more than 1m RUR to the Russian Federation’s budget. This information (good as of March 15, 2012) was provided by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, April 6, 2012. Under the Russian Federation President Dmitri Medvedev’s decree the Director-General of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Boris Dubrovsky was awarded the Order of Honor. MMK executive was given the award for his ‘work achievements and many years of conscientious performance’. Boris Dubrovsky was born in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region on November 22, 1958. He graduated with honors from Magnitogorsk Mining & Metallurgical Academy in 1990 with a major in metal forming and from the Russian Presidential Academy of National

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. 3.9% of workplaces in Yekaterinburg’s Ordzhonikidzevsky district do not meet the sanitary and hygienic requirements in terms of air pollutants concentration; 6% of workplaces have excessive noise levels, and 3.8% of workplaces have excessive vibration, Rospotrebnadzor reports. In 2011, 26 instances of professional chronic illnesses were diagnosed in Ordzhonikidzevsky district; the greatest proportion of those was diagnosed at Uralmashzavod. In 2011, fifteen instances were diagnosed at the plant (compared with ten cases a year earlier). This came to 57% of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court looked into the clash between Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Consumer Rights Protection Surveillance Agency (Rospotrebnadzor) and Koltsovo Airport. Rospotrebnadzor’s regional division’s claims were considered to be well-grounded, legitimate, and accomplishable, the division’s press service reports. In 2011, the agency inspected Koltsovo Airport for compliance with the sanitary legislation, consumer rights legislation, and licensing requirements. The inspection revealed numerous violations of the sanitary and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. Beloyarskaya nuclear power station’s US BAES, the daughter company of Uralenergostroy that was set up specifically to supervise the construction and assembly jobs at the power station’s power generating unit BN 800, was featured in a bankruptcy claim submitted to Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court on April 2, 2012. The plaintiff’s representative Finishing Jobs Directorate 1 told the reporters that US BAES owed them over 7m RUR. For the time being, the court took no action regarding the claim. In fact, the court is also considering another claim laid by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. Koltsovo Airport’s spring- and summer-timetable came into effect at the end of March. The timetable offers flights to all the 98 available destinations, of which 58 destinations are international ones (of which 34 destinations are holiday ones, including those around the CIS), and 40 are domestic ones. Among the new destinations expected to be available are Harbin, Shardzha, Urumchi, Lenkoran, Gyumri, Kulyab, Noyabrsk, Vorkuta, and Makhachkala. More flights are now being operated to nearly all the popular summer holiday destinations. The number of flights