Yekaterinburg to host Russian-German summit

‘Demidov Business Center is not on the to-do list we have in terms of getting ready for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit next summer. No summit-related events are going to take place there,’ Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel said in the course of a recent press conference in Yekaterinburg. Demidov Business Center actually used to be one of the objects that had to be ready by the summit in 2009, while t congress hall was expected to host one of the summit activities. Until recently, the project was implemented by Klaas-Story run by Mars Sharafulin; however, the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 13, 2010. ‘My deputy Sergey Smetanyuk has been made responsible for the organization of the Ural and the Ukrainian Governors’ meeting,’ Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Nikolai Vinnichenko announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. The city of Yekaterinburg is to host the meeting of the Ural Federal District’s officials and business communities with their Ukrainian counterparts in September 2010. The agenda of the summit provides for a plenary session, some panel and work groups meetings, and for a

Over 135 billion RUR will be invested in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Yekaterinburg in 2009, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel announced at a preparatory committee meeting. This year, for instance, 3.2 billion RUR will be allocated from various budgets. The preparatory committee’s proceedings were assisted by First Deputy Minister of Transport Alexander Misharin, President’s Administrator Vladimir Kozhin, Assistant to the President Sergey Prikhodko, Director of Russian Federation President Expert Department Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel chaired the meeting of the regional committee responsible for preparing things for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in the summer of 2009. The Governor said that a report on how well Sverdlovsk Region was prepared for the summit was to be presented at a meeting in the Kremlin on February 11, 2009. Last year, twenty summit-related projects were implemented successfully, with yet nine and seventeen summit-related events to take place this year on the federal and regional scale, respectively. All in all, 115 buildings were supposed to have

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin met Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Latvia to the Russian Federation Edgars Skuja. The two officials discussed the ways in which the two territories could cooperate. For one, they saw some good opportunities for machine-building development through joint small and medium ventures. Governor Misharin asked the region’s Minister for Trade, Food, and Services Dmitriy Nozhenko to find the way of working with the Latvian suppliers directly, without any intermediaries. He also said that UMMC Holding was a great