The South Ural office of UralBusinessConsulting won the Best Journalist Paper about Sberbank of Russia in Chelyabinsk Region competition. The contest was held by Chelyabinsk division of Sberbank of Russia and targeted at drawing the attention of the mass media to the issues of trust building in terms of Russia’s banking system; the bank also wanted the population to learn more about the services it provides. The competition included four categories (TV, radio, press, online media) and was timed with the 165th anniversary of the bank. Over 50 mass media entities took part in the contest. The

The militia station located in Chkalovskiy district of Yekaterinburg received a message from the General Director of Yekaterinburg Meatpacking Plant Ltd. Vladimir Martsenyuk about the attempted takeover at 5.50 PM on November 28, 2006. A group of officers arrived at the plant and characterized the incident as a quarrel between two business entities, yet the founders of the plant call it a raid. ‘The investigation revealed that two citizens entered the premises of the plant, produced the minutes of the general shareholder meeting and showed it to Mr Martsenyuk; according to the minutes, the

‘When putting up this housing complex, we are trying to combine the implementation of the multi-faceted area development concept with its scientific justification,’ the Managing Director of Academic construction project Stanislav Pridvizhkin aanounced at today’s conference of Union of Sverdlovsk Region Builders. ‘Our aim is to achieve the synergy effect: we’ll create an area suitable for both living and doing business, as well as for dealing in trade, personal services, and creating the entertainment infrastructure. This means we use the multi-purpose approach to town planning; this project

All shops of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) are still operating stably despite the cold weather that has set in. Thanks to the well-organized performance of the personnel, the raw produce is unloaded and shipped smoothly, and all the facilities work okay. The defrosting garages located in Lebyazhinskiy agglomeration shop are functioning without any interruptions, with the temperatures necessary for safekeeping of railway carriages maintained at all times. The unloading of burden material is kept in compliance with the schedule; due to the additional

‘Sverdlovsk Region Government and I support the actions of Ural Airlines. The thing is, this carrier is the only one on the large market that tackles the social responsibility of business,’ Governor Eduard Rossel announced at the press conference. ‘The planes of Ural Airlines perform flights to almost all possible destinations, including the ones that are not so profitable for them, whereas Moscow carriers, for instance, only choose the flights that yield good revenues,’ Mr Rossel said. ‘Ural Airlines manage to meet the needs of all of its potential clients as well as develop their business

Airbus 320, recently acquired by Ural Airlines, performed its maiden flight (Yekaterinburg-Istanbul) today. Upon its arrival back in Yekaterinburg, the aircraft will be used for flights destined for Saint Petersburg and Yerevan. According to the carrier’s Commercial Director Kirill Skuratov, the new liner will not service one particular direction only but will transfer passengers on both international and domestic flights. The news was reported by the spokesperson for Ural Airlines.

Energozaschita Insurance Broker JSC conducted a number of tenders for property and private insurance agreements with power generating companies comprising RAO UES of Russia. Ingosstrakh insurance company won the tender announced by Center and Northern Caucasus Interregional Network Company JSC in the following categories: - insurance of property against fire and other calamities, against terrorism, insurance of machines and equipment against breakdowns, insurance against disruption of production, and multi-purpose insurance of building and assembly jobs for Corporate Service Systems;

Energozaschita Insurance Broker JSC conducted a number of tenders for property and private insurance agreements with power generating companies comprising RAO UES of Russia. Ingosstrakh insurance company won the tender in the following categories: - voluntary medical insurance, insurance against accidents and diseases for KolymaEnergo, MagadanEnergo, and YakutskEnergo; - civil liability insurance for entities using dangerous production facilities and waterworks for KolymaEnergo, MagadanEnergo, YakutskEnergo, AmurEnergo, Verkneye-Mutnovskaya Power Plant, and GEOTHERM JSC; -obligatory car

According to the CEO of one of Moscow’s credit reporting agencies, he received a letter from the Federal Financial Market Service asking him to produce all papers needed to conduct an office inspection on Monday. The letter says that the inspector will analyze all the documents the agency has, and these have to be produced before November 30, 2006. The players on the credit reporting agencies market are positive that these untimely requests for papers will be experienced by them all. However, the strict measures, they say, will probably affect small and regional agencies first. Experts

An accident occurred at Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk yesterday. According to the press officer for Chelyabinsk Region Department of Emergencies, fire broke out at the sheet-rolling shop of the Complex at 7.30 PM and covered the area of 1,000 square meters, resulting in the 1,200-square-meter roof failure. There were fourteen people there at the moment, working with the four tubs full of hydrochloric acid, five rinse tanks, and wringer rolls. Eight of them were injured and evacuated; six people were sent to hospitals with varying gravity of condition, and two of them

The person to receive the special 300,000th VISA card issued by Chelindbank was Irina A. Morozova of Kopeisk, the employee of Servicecom Ltd. (the bank provides salary cash cards for the company). According to the spokesperson for the bank, they have completed 1,490 salary card schemes for business and organizations of Chelyabinsk and Chelyabinsk Region so far. The bank’s ATM network comprises 107 ATMs as well as some cash desks based in all the subsidiaries and offices of the banks. Chelindbank is also trying to increase the number of non-cash transactions: the card holders can now pay for

The South Ural office of UralBusinessConsulting won the Best Journalist Paper about Sberbank of Russia in Chelyabinsk Region competition. The contest was held by Chelyabinsk division of Sberbank of Russia and targeted at drawing the attention of the mass media to the issues of trust building in terms of Russia’s banking system; the bank also wanted the population to learn more about the services it provides. The competition included four categories (TV, radio, press, online media) and was timed with the 165th anniversary of the bank. Over 50 mass media entities took part in the contest. The

The militia station located in Chkalovskiy district of Yekaterinburg received a message from the General Director of Yekaterinburg Meatpacking Plant Ltd. Vladimir Martsenyuk about the attempted takeover at 5.50 PM on November 28, 2006. A group of officers arrived at the plant and characterized the incident as a quarrel between two business entities, yet the founders of the plant call it a raid. ‘The investigation revealed that two citizens entered the premises of the plant, produced the minutes of the general shareholder meeting and showed it to Mr Martsenyuk; according to the minutes, the

‘When putting up this housing complex, we are trying to combine the implementation of the multi-faceted area development concept with its scientific justification,’ the Managing Director of Academic construction project Stanislav Pridvizhkin aanounced at today’s conference of Union of Sverdlovsk Region Builders. ‘Our aim is to achieve the synergy effect: we’ll create an area suitable for both living and doing business, as well as for dealing in trade, personal services, and creating the entertainment infrastructure. This means we use the multi-purpose approach to town planning; this project

All shops of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) are still operating stably despite the cold weather that has set in. Thanks to the well-organized performance of the personnel, the raw produce is unloaded and shipped smoothly, and all the facilities work okay. The defrosting garages located in Lebyazhinskiy agglomeration shop are functioning without any interruptions, with the temperatures necessary for safekeeping of railway carriages maintained at all times. The unloading of burden material is kept in compliance with the schedule; due to the additional

‘Sverdlovsk Region Government and I support the actions of Ural Airlines. The thing is, this carrier is the only one on the large market that tackles the social responsibility of business,’ Governor Eduard Rossel announced at the press conference. ‘The planes of Ural Airlines perform flights to almost all possible destinations, including the ones that are not so profitable for them, whereas Moscow carriers, for instance, only choose the flights that yield good revenues,’ Mr Rossel said. ‘Ural Airlines manage to meet the needs of all of its potential clients as well as develop their business

Saint Petersburg-based OMZ Spetsstal Ltd. and UralmashSpetsstal Ltd., the metallurgical branches of United Machine Building Works, have taken part in the XIIth international Specialized Exhibition known as Metal Expo 2006 held on November 14-17 2006 within the framework of a metallurgical forum referred to as Moscow Metal Week. OMZ Spetsstal Ltd. and UralmashSpetsstal Ltd. exhibited all the range of their produce, namely, shaped castings (steel and iron founding), hot-rolled sheets and slabs for various purposes as well as roller billets and hot- and cold-rolled rollers. The two companies

In order to provide the reliable performance of Yestyuninskaya, Yuzhnaya, and Magnetitovaya mines, Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) conducted a number of technological blasts. The total amount of muck with the required iron content came to over 40,000 tons. These technological blasts are tackled under the ground on regular basis; first, depending on the results of the exploration work, the sections of the mine liable to treatment are determined. Then, the blast is conducted with the help of the non-electrical priming system. This method has been used by

Skoda JS (part of OMZ Atom, which is itself a part of United Machine Building Works) signed an over ?3.5m contract with Nuclear Research Institute Řež for upgrading their research reactors LVR-15 and LR-0 on November 16, 2006. The project will be completed in the first half of 2008, with 50% of financial backing coming from the European Union structural funds. The tender for taking care of the technological aspect of the project known as Řež Scientific Technological Park and Hatcher Entrepreneurship was announced by the Nuclear Research Institute in July 2006. Skoda JS is going to employ the

Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank held Borrower’s Day last weekend, celebrated by the bank and the residents of Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region. All people who visited the bank over the weekends were given gift certificates entitling them to a 25% discount off the initial commission the bank normally takes when giving a loan, and souvenirs bearing the bank logo, says the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank. What is more, any visitor could check out an impromptu artist’s studio and get their take-off sketched for them without setting foot outside the office. The potential clients were