Rostelecom was made to stop offering any illegal access to online casino websites in Langepas. Under the law, access to gambling services can only be granted in the special gambling zones, Ural Federal District division of General Public Prosecutor’s Office’s press service reports. The public prosecution authorities of Langepas determined that Rostelecom, the telecommunications provider, did not limit its users’ access to the so-called online casino websites within the town’s territory. These casinos coordinate and deal in gambling. Langepas town court refused to sustain the prosecutor’s

India might set up a consulate in Yekaterinburg, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to the Russian Federation Ajai Malhotra said at a meeting with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev. ‘India operates two Consulates-General in Saint Petersburg and in Vladivostok for now; distances are great, and Yekaterinburg is a rapidly developing city that is located in a geographically advantageous spot; it can also boast a powerful industry and rich cultural traditions,’ Malhotra said. The Ambassador sees tourism development as something with a lot of potential, as the

Over 26,000 people living in Sverdlovsk Region will be unable to travel abroad because of their debts. This coercive measure (a temporary limitation on leaving the country) has been applied to 26,276 debtors who owe their creditors 15,436,646,000 RUR altogether, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Court Bailiffs Service’s press office reports. In August, 2,914 people were added to the list of ‘non-travelers’ based in Sverdlovsk Region. It has been reported that 5,191 locals did not pay the alimony (936,809,000 RUR in total), while 35 debtors were coerced into paying off 5.777m RUR worth of

These are the sales experts, the manufacturing sector workers, the IT and telecommunications specialists, and the banking and finance experts who enjoy the greatest demand on Yekaterinburg labor market. This is obvious from the number of vacancies available in these sectors that are advertised via Headhunter portal, Headhunter Ural’s Marketing & PR Manager Anastasia Naidenova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. For one, the number of jobs available in the sales sector comes to about 27% of all the vacancies. Yet, according to Naidenova, this number is gradually going down. ‘This

SinaraHybrid, Sinara Group’s diesel-locomotive shunter with a hybrid power unit TEM9N, will be featured in a parade dedicated to the 175th anniversary of Russian Railways in Moscow Region-based Scherbinka at the end of this week, on September 7-9, 2012. The entire range of vehicles that are used in the railway industry will be presented at the parade, including the rare trains that were built as early as the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. As for the latest railway vehicles in the parade, one of them is Russia’s first locomotive shunter with smart asynchronous hybrid drive that is now

Uralvagonzavod’s most promising machinery – portable drill units MBR-125 and MBR-160 – have been certified for compliance with the standards, so now they are in the marketable products category and can break into the O&G equipment market, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. These portable drill units were developed within the framework of a large-scale program for the design and launch of new kinds of civil-purpose vehicles. MBR-125 and MBR-160 are meant for the ongoing repairs and capital overhauls of wells and for drilling the wells with wellhead pressure up to 35 MPa as

Chelyabinsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service warned Sverdlovsk Suburban Company (SPK) against canceling ten commuter trains in Chelyabinsk Region, as this will infringe upon the local residents’ interests, the spokesperson for Chelyabinsk Region division of the FAS reports. Canceling these trains, most of which are Kurgan-bound, will lead to a violation of the antimonopoly legislation because this might violate the Competition Protection Act (that is, this will mean unjustified canceling of a service that actually enjoys demand). The reason for canceling the trains is

Sverdlovsk Region’s gross domestic product is expected to rise by 20% to 25%, was Vice Premier of the regional government Alexander Petrov’s forecast at today’s briefing. ‘The industrial growth reached 12% in the eight months of 2012. The optical and the ferrous metallurgical industries are doing quite well. In 2012, the GDP will grow by 20-25%,’ Petrov said. Meanwhile, the Vice Premier pointed out that prices went down in the metallurgical industry in the eight months of the year: this is true, for example, of nickel and aluminum prices. ‘Russia joining the WTO will be a lot of help to the

Russian banks keep making more profits, even though this growth isn’t as fast as during the previous periods. According to RBC.Rating, the consolidated net profit of 500 Russian banks that were featured in the rating for the first half of the year came to nearly 402bn RUR, which is only 14.5% more than on July 1, 2011, SKB-Bank’s press service reports. However, some banks’ indicators are many times better than the median figures. For one, SKB-Bank’s net profit rose by over two times and came to 1.787bn RUR. This brought the bank on the list of Russia’s top 25 most profitable lending

Ural Airlines is launching a new Moscow-Nukus-Moscow flight on September 12. Flights will be operated every Wednesday. Tickets for the flight can be booked via the air carrier’s official website www.uralairlines.com and in the booking offices, the airline’s press service reports. All of Ural Airlines’ flights are operated using the modern and comfortable Airbus A320 airlines. Nukus is the center of the Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan (a part of Uzbekistan) and an important spot in the country’s administrative, economic, and cultural development. The city is surrounded by deserts on

Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant Uraltrac, which joined the International Pipeline Contractors Association IPLOСA last year, will present its produce at the organization’s annual convention, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service refers to the company’s Far Abroad Sales Directorate as saying. The forum, to be attended by the world’s leading producers and contractors in this market segment, will take place in Istanbul in mid-September. The presentation by Chelyabinsk tractor manufacturers will let the potential customers take a closer look at the company’s potential. Companies from North and

Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha-based NIGMAS will pay everything it owes its workers after the company’s primary product, pig iron, has been sold,’ Vice Premier of Sverdlovsk Region government Alexander Petrov saidt at today’s briefing in Yekaterinburg. At the moment, the plant’s former employees haven’t been compensation for the skipped vacations and haven’t received any severance pay when they were made redundant. ‘The bulk of NIGMAS’s debts has been paid off. The only remaining debt is the compensations, which comes to about 11m RUR,’ Petrov said. Moscow Arbitration Court declared NIGMAS, the owner

The rating agency Expert RA rated the business solvency of Sberinvestbank at A (High Business Solvency Level), with Stable rating outlook. The Stable outlook means the rating is highly likely to remain the same in the medium term, the agency explains. The bank’s rating is positively affected by the nice balance of its assets and liabilities in the short term, great level of issued loans guarantees, and low credit and stock risks for the securities portfolio. Among some other positive factors are the satisfactory quality of the lending portfolio, access to the sources of additional cash

The public prosecution authorities took administrative action against the director of Chelyabinsk-based McDonald’s for arrears of wages owed to five teenagers who worked at the café during their summer holidays,’ the authorities report. An inspection revealed that the terms of wage-payment were violated when the five underage workers resigned from their part-time jobs. The restaurant’s director is now involved in an administrative lawsuit, with charges based on Article 5.27 (part 1) of the Russian Federation Administrative Offense Code. An order was issued to compensate the minors for the

Sinara Pipe Plant (a part of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK)) re-built and upgraded a branch of its medical unit in the pipe workers’ district of Kamensk-Uralsky. This was done within the framework of the company’s investment program, TMK’s press service reports. The solemn opening ceremony was attended by Mayor of Kamensk-Uralsky Mikhail Astakhov, the eparch of the local diocese His Grace Sergiy, the Bishop of Kamensk-Uralsky and Alapayevsk, the Managing Director of Sinara Pipe Plant Sergey Chetverikov, the plant’s HR Director Vyacheslav Gagarinov, a representative of the company’s

The deputy director of Vodokanal-NT and the legal entity of the same name are now involved in an administrative lawsuit for the contamination of the River Vyya; they could be fined to 3,000-4,000 RUR and 30,000-40,000 RUR, respectively, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region prosecution authorities says. Vodokanal-NT offers services for the sewage network management to the following enterprises: KDV Nizhniy Tagil, Nizhniy Tagil Cold Storage Facility 1, Nizhiy Tagil Refrigerator, and Interatlantik –NTRK. It was determined that Interatlantik –NTRK dumped some waste water within the protected

The number of hunger-strikers at AMUR Car Factory has gone up to 100 people, the Novouralsk-based factory’s former worker Irina Zaprudina told UrBC. The ‘second wave’ of hunger-strikers started at AMUR today. The ‘first wave’ involved 16 people who went on a public hunger-strike. About thirty people were on hunger-strike at home. As was expected, those who went on hunger-strike in public were paid all the money that was their due. According to the former employees, the debt came to 1.5m RUR, according to some other resources, the figure came to as much as over 30m RUR. ‘The number of

In the eight months of 2012, over 10bn cubic meters of natural gas were consumed in Sverdlovsk Region. Last year, over 18bn cubic meters were consumed in the region, Vice Premier of Sverdlovsk Region Government Sergey Zyryanov said at a meeting with the heads and employees of local gas enterprises. The meeting was held at Sverdlovsk Region Government building, and the attendees were greeted on behalf of Governor Evgeny Kuivashev and the government by Sergey Zyryanov and the Minister for Energy & Communal Housing Services Nikolai Smirnov. ‘The Governor and the region’s government have

Expert RA, a rating agency, affirmed Uralsib Non-State Retirement Fund’s reliability rating at A: ‘high reliability rating’; the rating outlook was changed from Stable to Positive. The ‘Positive’ outlook means the rating is highly likely to go up in the short term. While looking into Uralsib’s rating status, the agency pointed out the great scale of accumulated investment profitability of customers’ retirement savings (profitability came to 17%, with some adjustments for the inflation rate, between December 31, 2009 and March 31, 2012) and the great scale of accumulated profitability of the

The general committee of Russian Red Cross thanked Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation for helping the victims of a recent flood in Krasnodar Territory. The organization expressed its gratitude for ‘the admirable achievements in contributing to humanism and mercy’. Following the Krymsk tragedy, Uralvagonzavod administration and the trade union committee coordinated the collection of humanitarian aid. Thousands of workers donated clothes, medicines, food, water, baby food, and much else besides. The trade union committee purchased some blankets and sheets for the flood