UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2012. AstanaEnergoPromStroy & Co increased the sum of the claim against Beloyarskaya nuclear power station’s US BAES to 76.67m RUR. The sum comprises 61.53m RUR worth of unpaid work completed in accordance with the contractor’s agreement and 15.23m RUR worth of interest charged for using another party’s funds. In fact, the original sum of the claim placed with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court came to 73.98m RUR. US BAES tried to get the court to declare that the plaintiff had missed the action limitation period, but the court rejected the station’s

Ural Civil Aviation Plant is now on the list of companies whose debt to the Russian Federation budget exceeds 1m RUR. These data (good as of March 15, 2012) were presented by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

Rostourism took 301 companies off its Unified Register of Tour Operators recently. For one, Yekaterinburg International Tourism Bureau Sputnik was among the excluded operators, the Association of Russian Tour Operators reports. According to what Deputy Head of Rostourism’s Legal Department Gennady Chutkin said at the Public Chamber meeting on changes in the tourist legislation, normally only about ten to fifteen companies get excluded from the register. ‘301 businesses is an impressive figure. They might steel be able to renew their financial guarantees and make it back to the register.

Ural Transport Machine-Building Plant is now on the list of companies whose debt to the Russian Federation budget exceeds 1m RUR. These data (good as of March 15, 2012) were presented by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

An investment committee chaired by Governor Alexander Misharin has been set up in Sverdlovsk Region. The Governor’s decree states that the committee’s key tasks are to improve the region’s investment climate, to promote a unified policy aimed at rational distribution of production forces throughout the area, to come up with proposals for the Governor concerning the local investment climate improvements, and to develop state-private partnership. Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Anatoly Gredin and the region’s Investments & Development Minister Mikhail Maksimov were appointed Deputy

Russian Railways Public Company is considering hiring foreign companies as consultants for the reconstruction of some railway stations in Russia, the company’s Railway Stations Directorate reports. The carrier’s experts are now elaborating the idea and are discussing it with the interested foreign companies. The task is to convert Russia’s railway stations into transportation and connecting hubs, RIA Novosti reports. For one, experts from AREP (Sociйtй Nationale des Chemins de fer Franсais/SNCF’s daughter enterprise) might be involved in the reconstruction of Krasnodar Territory-based railway

Ural Locomotives (Sinara Group and Siemens AG’s joint venture) came up with a draft plan of a direct current ES2G city express modeled on Desiro RUS (Lastochka) train, Sinara Group’s PR Department reports. This direct current ES2G train is being developed in accordance with Russian Railways Public Company’s technical specifications. The city express is expected to be used mainly on Moscow inner city railway and on heavy passenger traffic routes. The express will differ from Lastochka in terms of capacity, seating, interior details, and the composition of the machinery used.

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) supplied 2,600 tons of single PEWs with (diameter range 530mm - 820mm, wall width 20mm to 25mm) and 180 tons of weldless hot-rolled heavy-duty pipes (diameter range 299mm to 426mm) to the construction site of a new railway station in Adler. The railway station is designed to function as a transportation and connecting hub uniting the railway, the air, and the water means of transportation; its traffic capacity is expected to reach up to 15,000 people an hour. To fulfill this order, ChTPZ experts visited the construction site and got acquainted with the

Ural Airlines operated its first Moscow-Cologne-Moscow flight last Monday. Fifty-two passengers flew from Moscow to the capital of North Rhine Westfalia, and eighty-four people were on the return flight, which means this is a very popular offer, the company’s press service reports. The flight is operated three times a week, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; starting June, an extra flight on Thursday will be added to the timetable. The cheapest one-way tickets are available for ?30 (economy class, fees excluded) and for ?199 (business class, fees excluded). The timetable has been designed

An inspection conducted by Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities for the environment at Reftinskaya power station (a subsidiary of Enel OGK-5) revealed some grave violations of the environmental legislation. The power station in question is one the largest heat and power stations meant for supplying electric power to the industrially developed areas in the region and for supplying heat to the village of Reftinsky. The power station is a subsidiary of Enel OGK-5, has headquarters in Moscow), and belongs to the Italian company Enel. All in all, over fifty violations of the

The tender for the organization of Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum Innoprom 2012 had to be annulled, the government purchases-tracking website reports. The contract was offered for 100m RUR, with the financing supplied from Sverdlovsk Region budget. The state order was placed by Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Investments & Development. It turned out that only one bidder, Formica, placed their application. Under the current government purchases legislation, when no other applicants compete for the tender, the order goes to the only bidder. ‘No problems are to

The claim laid by Sverdlovsk Heat Supply Company (STK) against Enel OGK-5 will be heard in Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court on April 13, 2012. The claim is related to forcing the defendant to sign a heat energy supply agreement. The hearing of the claim began in December 2011 when STK went to court with a claim on forcing the defendant to sign a heat energy supply agreement with them on the plaintiff’s terms. The defendant provided a written renouncement of the claim, referring to the fact that the draft agreement on the energy and feed water supply No. 3215 they had received had actually

OAO TransContainer launched a freightliner between Saint Petersburg and Sverdlovsk Region, the railway operator’s press service reports. The first 57-carriage train took off from Saint Petersburg-Finlyandsky Station; the carriages were loaded with multi-tonnage containers belonging to other proprietors. Starting from April 2012, the freightliner is expected to be available two times a month.

The inquiry team is now busy confiscating the documentation of UTair Airlines following the airplane crash in the vicinity of Tyumen, Russia’s Investigative Committee reports. ‘The company’s technical and pre-flight documentation is now being confiscated,’ the message states. UTair’s pssenger plane ATR 72 flying from Tyumen to Surgut crashed during take-off. There were forty-three people on board, of whom thirty-two (according to the latest updates) were killed.

Ural Insturment-Making Plant has been placed on the list of companies that owe over 1m RUR to the Russian Federation budget. These data (as of March 15, 2012) were provided by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

A joint working team comprising the representatives of Seversky Pipe Plant and NL Agency under the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation will be working on an energy-saving project that will be implemented at the plant, the Governor’s PR Department reports. The Dutch energy-saving experts arrived in Sverdlovsk Region on March 29. Their two-day visit comprised a trip to the plant, where the plant’s management presented them the company’s production technologies and had a look at the Dutch party’s presentation on improvements in the field of energy-saving for

MMK Group’s trade union committee decided to raise the allowances paid to support the health of children of employees working at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), its daughter enterprises, and affiliate organizations in the summer of 2012. MMK is also preparing for the summer health campaign for the workers’ children. This is why the trade union committee actually decided that the compensation for the expenses related to paying for the trade union members’ children’s stay at MMK’s health resorts should be increased by 500 RUR. The trade union reimbursed 2,500 RUR to the workers last