Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court rejected the claim laid by Sberbank of Russia’s Ural branch against Russia’s Federal Tax Service, liquidation committees for Magnum-2 and Magnum-9 strong drinks supermarkets, and the committees’ Chair Inna Sulla. The bank insisted that the actions of the liquidation committees be declared unlawful and that the tax service (represented by the Federal Tax Service Inspectorate in Kirovsky District of Yekaterinburg) restore the entries regarding the liquidated legal entities in its Unified State Registers of Legal Entities. Sberbank claims that Ms Sulla did not

Sberbank of Russia wants its claims to a sole trader named Kirill Shlayen to be accounted for on the creditors’ list. The claim to this effect has been placed by the bank with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court. It was declared on December 22, 2011 that Shlayen would have to undergo bankruptcy proceedings. Vadim Permikin was chosen as the trustee in bankruptcy for the case. At the moment, the sole traders owes his creditors 769.37m RUR. The hearing of Sberbank’s claim has been set for March 20, 2012. Kirill Shlayen ran the companies Resta Management and Omega Spirits Group in Oleg Fleganov’s

Prolonged windless weather that could be observed in Nizhniy Tagil at the end of January 2012 was the cause of the worsening environmental conditions that finally made the locals place a complaint with the public prosecution authorities. Due to these citizens’ complaints, the Nizhniy Tagil public prosecution authorities for the environment had to check how well the local enterprises Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works (NTMK) and Uralvagonzavod comply with the air protection regulations. It was detected that while this unfavorable weather held, NTMK’s coke production department kept shipping

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court refused to accept Rusgrad Construction Company’s claim regarding the confiscation of assets from Ural Exhibition Center, which allegedly withholds these assets illegally. The assets in question are a number of non-residential buildings and rooms, a boiler house, and a water supply plant of Yekaterinburg EXPO Exhibition Center. The plaintiff did some work under the terms of a controversial agreement; the general contractor and the customer later clashed over the price of the work done and the payment. The real estate that Rusgrad indicated in its claim is

A crane operator was killed at EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Plant (KGOK) due to poor organization of work process. This was the conclusion Sverdlovsk Region State Labor Inspectorate came to. On January 6, 2012, a crane operator lost her balance and fell from the height of 27 meters when she was observing her EOT crane moving along the horizontal beam. The inquiry into the case resulted in an H-1 report. The files of the case have been transferred to public prosecution authorities. EVRAZ KGOK had to face administrative liability, that is, to pay a 50,000-ruble fine. The

The reason a worker was injured at UC RUSAL SUBR Krasnaya Shapochka mine was insufficient organization of labor protection, the State Labor Inspectorate reports. Now a worker was injured on December 21, 2011 when he was busy crushing bulky rocks in the mine with a chipping hammer. ‘It was revealed in the course of an investigation that this serious accident had been caused by poor organization of labor protection and insufficient employee training in what concerns compliance with the labor protection regulations. The worker was allowed to start crushing bulky rocks even though he had no

Criminal action was taken against Rosprirodnadzor officials who are suspected of accepting a ?90,000 bribe for their audit of Svyatogor (a member of UMMC Holding); they are also suspected of taking 11.8m RUR from the company for covering up the detected legal offenses. Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow has already ruled that head of Rosprirodnadzor’s Environmental Control Department Lyudmila Plushch must be taken under arrest, Kommersant reports. The official was under the Federal Security Service and the Internal Affairs Ministry Economic Security Departments’ officers’ observation for over a

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service fined OOO Peugeot Citroen Rus for running misleading advertisements on car loans for their Peugeot 308 and Peugeot 207 makes. The fine amounted to 110,000 RUR. The violation of the Advertising Act consisted in that only one loan term (the annual interest rate) was mentioned in the advertising clips on Peugeot 308 and Peugeot 207. ‘The fact that only one particular car loan term was referred to in the Peugeot 308 and Peugeot 207 ads means that the consumer who is interested in the service is unable to get sufficient information on this service. This, in

The press service of Russian Authors Society (RAO) reports Sverdlovsk Region Court rejected the complaint placed by Salut Movie Theater on Yekaterinburg’s Leninsky District Court’s ruling regarding the payment of royalties to foreign composers. ‘Given the decision taken by the court, Salut representatives’ comments on how RAO allegedly misinforms the public about the position movie theaters take in court disputes and on how courts tend to support these movie theaters in their judgment look unconvincing,’ RAO reports. In 2011, two claims RAO placed against movie theaters were left unheard for

Harley-Davidson’s official dealer representation will be opened in Yekaterinburg in the first half of March 2012. ‘The final decoration jobs are being completed, and all the necessary equipment is being installed,’ the store’s website states. It is also reported that the Harley-Davidson Yekaterinburg representation is a member of Harley-Davidson Group. OOO Motorcycle No. 1 (Harley-Davidson’s official dealer in Yekaterinburg) explains the store will be selling both new and used motorcycles.

The household appliances and electronic goods store Technosila closed down its outlet in Fan Fan Shopping Mall in Yekaterinburg. The store has already been replaced by another chain, Eldorado. This means Technosila now operates only two stores in Yekaterinburg, that is, in Greenwich and Park House malls. In fact, the outlet in Park House might soon stop operating as well. Manhattan Real Estate Management’s Yekaterinburg branch informed UrBC that yet another electronic goods chain, Media Markt, is about to open on the third floor of the mall. The German hypermarket is expected to use the area

Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Public Property Management Vitaly Nedelsky will not take part in the re-election of Koltsovo Airport’s Board of Directors by the stockholders. The decision was made by the airport’s BOD. It was suggested that Sverdlovsk Region should be represented on the board by Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and Head of Administration Pavel Korolev and Transport & Roads Minister Gennady Marenkov. Nedelsky and Marenkov were both elected on the airport’s BOD in September 2011 in the course of an extraordinary general meeting.

Last year, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) invested over 120m RUR in employee training. 12,883 employees took part in various professional development, re-training, and second specialization programs, including 6,747 blue-collar workers and 6,136 managers, experts, and clerks. The majority of workers (4,241 people) attended purpose-oriented courses last year, while 1,603 people underwent re-training programs, 339 people attended production & technical courses, and 564 people obtained a second qualification. MMK’s employee training spending amounted to 121.3m RUR last year. In

The agenda of Design Managers’ Days (to be held in Yekaterinburg on February 25-26, 2012) covers some work on the logo for Ural IT Cluster, a non-profit partnership. The event will be attended by experts from British Higher School of Art & Design, Parsons The New School For Design, the Association of Design Management, Ural State University of Economics’ Marketing & International Management Department, and Arena Multimedia International Training Center as well as employees of BridgerConway, StreetArt, Vitamin, and AMG An intensive workshop dubbed Brand Design: A Step-by-Step Guide

Baltika Breweries intends not to pay any share dividends for the year 2011 to the stockholders. Such was the recommendation offered to the shareholders by the company’s Board of Directors.

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court fined Metro Cash & Carry for selling foods that did not meet the normative documentation requirements; the fine amounted to 50,000 RUR and meant that the court ruled in favor of the claim laid against the company by Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor in Leninsky and Verkh-Isetsky districts of Yekaterinburg. Rospotrebnadzor (the consumer rights agency) insisted that the retailer face administrative liability and that the following food items be confiscated: canned Atlantic sardines in oil (produced at Baltiysky Kombinat, Svetly, Kaliningrad

Russian businesspeople find it more convenient to invest in the Urals’ economy through Cyprus. This was a hypothesis voiced by head of the Cyprus-based construction company Cybarco Ural representation Vladislav Andreyev, who looked into the data carried by Tyumenstat, the company’s press service reports. According to the statistics agency, 99.7% of investments Tyumen Region (excluding Khanty-Mansiysky and Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Regions) receives come from Cyprus. All in all, these went up by 209.1 times, that is, from $26.3m to $5,472.4m. It is remarkable, Andreyev notes, that the number

Rosatom is considering the possibility of installing two more fast fission reactors at Beloyarskaya nuclear power station in Sverdlovsk Region, to complement the BN-800 reactor currently under construction, RIA Novosti refers to head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko as saying. The nuclear station currently uses the world’s only fast fission reactor-based power generating unit that has an industrial-scale capacity, BN-600. The BN-800 fast fission reactor-based unit is under construction at the moment. The first portion of fuel is expected to be loaded into this reactor in the middle of 2013.

The National Agency for Control and Welding (NAKS) conducted a certification procedure for the OZS-4 and MR-3 electrodes manufactured by MMK METIZ (a member of MMK Group) at the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. At the end of the certification procedure, certificates confirming the quality of the said products were issued to the manufacturer. The certification means MMK METIZ can now sell its Type E46 OZS-4 and MR-3 electrodes (diameter of 3.0 and 4.0 mm) bearing NAKS Compliance Sign, the company’s press service reports. The Sign is meant to inform the customer that the produce complies

Ural Airlines announces a drop in prices for the company’s Moscow-Chita and Chita-Moscow flights. Prices for a one-way ticket now start from 9,150 RUR. The offer is valid between February 16 and May 20 and applies to all the flights operated in the said directions, the airline’s press service reports. It should be noted that Ural Airlines is one of the major air carriers at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport and operates flights to various parts of Russia as well as around the CIS. This is why passengers flying from Chita to Moscow can get on connecting flights via a convenient transit in Moscow.