Yekaterinburg is going to get a technological park meant for waste recycling. The facility will be located on the outskirts of the city, on the premises of the older landfill Shirokaya Rechka, President of Waste Recycling Association Mikhail Malkov announced today. The facility is expected to cover the entire area of the premises, namely, over forty hectares. In addition to the main units (the sorting unit, the fuel-producing unit, and a mini heat and power station), the facility will also get a scientific research center, a hothouse and a mini zoo. The project provides not only for waste

SKB-Bank keeps developing its subsidiary networks and has recently set up a new office in Pskov, the capital of Pskov Region. Pskov is one of Russia’s oldest cities, first mentioned in the chronicles in 903. Its thousand-year history, rich cultural heritage, and numerous architectural masterpieces make the city one of Russia’s most significant places in cultural and historical respect. The locals are especially proud of the Military Glory title Pskov was given in 2009. SKB-Bank’s Pskov office is located at 50a Oktyabrsky Ave. and welcomed private individuals from 9 AM to 7 PM on weekdays and

The communal housing services support fund informed Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin of the fund Board’s decision to resume the financing allocated for the region, the spokesperson for the regional Ministry for Energy & Communal Housing Services reports. The fund actually halted the financing in April 2011 in respect of capital repairs of apartment blocks and relocation of citizens from slums. This had to do with the fact that Sverdlovsk Region, like over twenty other regions, in fact, did not manage to complete all the jobs related to the land registry of all the

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court ruled on June 21, 2011 that NeftoOpt Ural based in Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, should be declared bankrupt, thus closing case А60-12722/2011, Kommersant reports under the Insolvency Announcements heading. The company will now undergo bankruptcy proceedings. Vladimir Tomashevitch of Severo-Zapad Self-Regulatory Organization of Trustees in Bankruptcy Non-Commercial Partnership was appointed the enterprise’s trustee in bankruptcy.

Sinara-Development (Sinara Group) is about to start working on the second extension to Albatross, a large apartment block in Belinsky St and Savva Belykh St in Yekaterinburg, Sinara Group’s PR Department reports. Sinara Development built the first section of the block in 2009-2010. The new section will be put up in the place where a dilapidated two-storey house is situated at the moment, at 1 Savva Belykh St. The old building is to be pulled down, and all the dwellers have by now been relocated to new homes. The second extension to Albatross will be a two-entrance block, with the number of

The All-Russian Conservation Society carried out environmental monitoring of all Russian regions in June 2011, and it turned out that nearly all the environmental condition indicators in Ural Federal District were rather negative. Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region (Yugra) scored a total of -3, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region scored -4, Chelyabinsk Region scored -6, Sverdlovsk Region scored -8, and only Kurgan Region had a positive score of 3, the Society reports. The quality of Sverdlovsk Region’s air was estimated as unsatisfactory. According the results of the monitoring, Sverdlovsk

Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities came up with a legal evaluation of the fact that the owners of a number of apartments in certain apartment buildings in Yekaterinburg had been billed for housing services by several communal housing services companies at the same time. For one, the authorities of Yekaterinburg Oktyabrsky district found out that the management company Zhilcom committed some legal offenses in its housing funds management activities. The management company started running the housing blocks in Oktyabsky district in 2010, following a tender carried out by a local

Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for State Property Management is going to look into the way the assets of Sverdlovsk Region Automobile Transport Union are used, the ministry’s press officer informed UrBC. At the time of their appointment, the new management of the Union was faced with a task of bringing its partnership with the leasers and tenants in compliance with the existing legislation. Our ministry intends to carry out a set of inspections to make sure the assets of the Union are properly operated and maintained,’ Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for State Property Management reports.

Bank Koltso Urala opened its 50th Russia-based office recently. This outlet is located in Orsk, Orenburg Region and is now the bank’s sixth office in this region. The new outlet is situated near an amusement park at 22 Lenin St and offers Orsk dwellers consumer loans, deposit schemes, bank cards, money order services or other kinds of payments, and exchange of currency. Legal entities can also have a settlement account opened there, enjoy the benefits of loans to businesses and sole traders, and use the appealing deposit offers as well as many other banking services. We are glad that it is in

Sverdlovsk Region’s retail chain stores agreed to comply with the request of Governor Alexander Misharin regarding the sale of certain food items at low prices to cater for the needs of the economically vulnerable citizens, heads of the chain stores and the food processing enterprises informed the regional Minister for Trade, Food, & Services in the course of a recent meeting, the Governor’s press office reports. Very soon, large retail companies will be offering Gubernatorsky bread, sausages, and other food items at special prices. Both the food manufacturers and the retailers join the

Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry admits that it is impossible at the moment to simplify the existing visa regimes for Russia and Great Britain, the Association of Russian Tour Operators reports. According to the Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov, the current British visa requirements, including extended waiting periods, are a source of numerous problems for tourists. However, there is no reason to hope things can change any time soon. ‘Britain is not prepared to sign any simplified visa regime agreements with Russia just now,’ Lavrov announced via his account at Twitter.com. In

This year’s millionth passenger traveled on board Ural Airlines’ plane today. The company keeps welcoming its special passenger increasingly earlier each year: in 2010, the millionth passenger traveled with Ural Airlines in August. This has to do with the fact that Ural Airlines’ passenger turnover rose by 20%, so this year we expect it to exceed two million people for the first time in our history,’ the airline’s press service reports. This year’s millionth passenger was Tatiana Berdyugina, who went on vacation to Sochi with her kids Juliana and Yaroslav. The company presented her with Wings

The customs of the Ural Customs Administration area transferred 15.346bn RUR to the federal budget in the second quarter of 2011, which was nearly 4.5bn more than in the first quarter of the year, the spokesperson for Ural Customs Administration reports. All in all, the local customs handed over 26.227bn RUR to the state treasury in the first half of 2011. The money coming in from the imported goods duties amounted to 22.533bn RUR, whereas the money coming in from the export duties reached 3.13bn RUR.

Sverdlovsk Region is currently one of Russia’s fastest-growing regions in terms of agricultural produce. The agricultural output growth index comes to 109.9, thus making the region Russia’s 6th fastest-developing constituency in this respect, the Ministry for Economic Development’s online report on the economic, financial, banking, and social situation in the Russian federal constituencies in January-May 2011 says. Among the country’s top five most agriculturally successful regions are Chukotka Autonomous District, Novgorod Region, Novosibirsk Region, Tver Region, and Voronezh Region. As it

The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development celebrates its SME lending program’s sixth anniversary this year. All this time, the terms of the program have been getting better to meet the market requirements. The program also keeps developing alongside the customers’ businesses, so some new loan offers and special bonus solutions have been created. The program now comprises a wide range of loan schemes aimed to meet the small and medium enterprises’ various needs. Loans are available in most Russian regions where the UBRD runs its offices, that is, in Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk Regions,

Otkrytiye, a brokerage business, presented its totally new, know-how, classic fundamental trust management strategy called China’s Shares to the Russian qualified investors. This is a unique product that has no counterparts on the Russian market at the moment, Otkrytiye’s press service reports. The new strategy presupposes investing the money in the shares of Chinese companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (one of the world’s top ten bourses in terms of capitalization). The currency used in this portfolio is the Hong Kong dollar, a hard currency traded at 7.75 to 7.8 to one U.S.

Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg for Capital Construction & Land Use Vladimir Kritsky chaired a meeting on the road construction in Yekaterinburg in 2011, the spokesperson for the city council reports. The most important project under discussion was the junction next to Moskovskaya Gorka, which was started in 2010. This year, the junction is expected to be fully completed and launched alongside two driveways. One of the driveways is meant for the drivers to go down from Moskovskaya St to Posadskaya St and the other one is meant for the drivers to go up the highway from Bolshakov St.

An interregional session of Russia’s industry ministers will be held in Yekaterinburg during the international industrial innovations exhibition INNOPROM 2011 on July 14-15, 2011. The idea was proposed by Sverdlovsk Region Vice Premier and Minister for Industry & Science Alexander Petrov and Tatarstan Minister for Industry & Trade Ravil Zaripov, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s press service reports. The ministers intend to consider their regions’ industrial cooperation potential and to visit the region’s flagship enterprises in Yekaterinburg, Pervouralsk, and Nizhniy Tagil. Russia’s

Sverdlovsk Region’s Public Prosecutor Yu. A. Ponomarev is now personally monitoring the situation in Sagra, a village in the vicinity of Verknyaya Pyshma, the spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office reports. A large-scale ethnic disturbance occurred in the village next to Yekaterinburg on July 1, 2011. One twenty-eight-year-old Yekaterinburg resident was killed. About thirty people, most of them of Azerbaijan origin, took part in the clash. They were armed with knives, sticks, chains and firearms. The conflict was caused by serious difficulties between the villagers and a gypsy family of

The Turkish Cabinet decided to let Russian citizens stay in their country without a visa for up to sixty days rather than just thirty days permitted before. This decision will be valid through December 31, 2011, Turkish Airlines reports. Meanwhile, an agreement on cancelling visa requirements was signed by Russia and Turkey on April 17, 2011, which meant that Russians coming to Turkey could stay there without a visa for up to thirty days. Those who intended to stay longer had to get a visa or a temporary residence permit, which meant having to produce a lot of papers and waiting for a long