UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2011. Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Yuri Trutnev confirmed the list of Russian enterprises that make a negative impact on the environment and must be subject to environmental surveillance by the state. Orders were signed in eighty-three federal constituencies, including Sverdlovsk Region, the Ministry’s press officer reports. For one, Uralsvyazinform, a telecommunications provider, was featured on the list.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, January 27, 2011. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) raised its steel output by 19% last year compared with a year earlier; the output figures thus reached 11.419 million tons, the company reports. MMK’s commodity output rose by 17% and reached 10.245 million tons. Last year, MMK made 3.448 million tons of goods with high added value, which was 44% better than in the year 2009. MMK Group’s share of metal products with high added value came to 38% of its total annual output (against 31% in 2009) and to 42% of all the metal goods produced in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2011. ‘People living in the vicinity of A.K. Serov Metallurgical Plant are expected to face significant health risks due to the impact of nitrogen oxide and fine dust,’ Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) announced in the course of a committee meeting. The meeting was dedicated to the introduction of sanitary protection areas around industrial enterprises. ‘The division gauged the health risks for the inhabitants of Sverdlovsk Region’s environmentally unfriendly towns; the accumulated risk of cancer that an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2011. Ural Customs goods turnover involving the countries of the CIS dropped by 2.9% last year compared with a year earlier, that is, down to $4.7bn. On the other hand, the turnover of goods delivered to and from the far abroad rose by 18.6%, up to $18.4bn, Ural Customs Administration’s press officer reports. The decrease in the goods turnover involving the countries of the CIS had to do with the lowered export volumes to Kazakhstan (these went down by 43.2%) and import volumes from Kazakhstan (these declined by 20.1%), even though the amount of goods exported

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2011. ‘The year 2010 can be seen as a successful one. Toyota Center Yekaterinburg Vostok’s sales went up by 20% on average compared with the year 2009,’ the company’s director Sergey Vassilyev told UrBC. Vassilyev reports Toyota makes are very popular with Yekaterinburg customers, as they are throughout the entire country. Last year’s top three best-selling makes were Toyota Corolla, Toyota Rav4, and Toyota Camry. ‘The new Toyota Highlander that hit the market in the last quarter of the year aroused great customer interest. Russia’s automobile market is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2011. Sverdlovsk Region State Employment Service Department came up with a list of companies that went through with large-scale layoffs in 2010. For one, Serov Metallurgical Plant made 2,580 people redundant due to decreased amount of work to be done. 1,700 people had to leave Ural Electro-Chemical Works for the same reason. 477 people were laid off at Sredneuralsk Copper-Smelting Plant because the company had improved on its management structure, and 660 people left Uralasbest due to decreased production output. Also, 387 people were made redundant at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2011. Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Yuri Trutnev confirmed the list of Russian enterprises that make a negative impact on the environment and must be subject to environmental surveillance by the state. Orders were signed in eighty-three federal constituencies, including Sverdlovsk Region, the Ministry’s press officer reports. For one, Seversky Pipe Works was featured on the list.

Betfor, a concrete goods plant owned by LSR Group, finished last year off with 31.59 million RUR worth of net losses, the company’s official report says. Now a year earlier, the plant’s net loss amounted to 80.24 million RUR. Betfor reports its net losses were smaller in 2010 than in 2009 because of increased product sales volumes and reduced outgoings.

A Yekaterinburg-based customer of Home Credit & Finance Bank managed to have a number of terms contained in the bank’s agreements declared invalid by the court. The court ruled that the customer’s loan agreement was invalid in that it charged a commission of 1.725% a month for the issuance of a loan, a commission for topping up one’s loan account, and that the bank made it compulsory for the borrowing party to get insured against an accident and pay 8,912 RUR for it. The bank will now have to pay B., the plaintiff, 8,910 RUR – the insurance fee, as well as 24,178.7 RUR – the commission

Ural Federal District’s division of Rosprirodnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) completed its unscheduled inspection of Sinara Pipe Plant that was aimed at checking the plant’s compliance with two earlier orders. As it turned out, the company failed to fulfill one order, with a new order issued for the enterprise. Two Rosprirodnadzor experts were sent to take part in the investigation carried out by Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities upon the request of Ural Federal District’s division of Russia’s General Prosecutor’s Office; the inquiry is targeted at verifying the

Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Yuri Trutnev confirmed a list of Russian enterprises that make a negative impact on the environment and must be subject to environmental surveillance by the state. Orders were signed in eighty-three federal constituencies, including Sverdlovsk Region. For one, OAO Sevuralboksitruda (OAO SUBR) has been placed on this list.

OAO Bank24.ru’s e-banking security certificate expired recently. Starting Friday, January 21, 2011, all of the bank’s e-users could only see a message notifying them that the security certificate was invalid when they tried to open i.bank24.ru service. ‘i.bank24.ru has been using an invalid security certificate. The service expired on January 21, 2011,’ the message reads. According to the customer manual, using e-banking services without a valid certificate is not totally safe. However, the bank’s system still suggests that the users keep on performing the transaction by clicking a button

Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Yuri Trutnev confirmed the list of Russian enterprises that make a negative impact on the environment and must be subject to environmental surveillance by the state. The decrees to this extent were signed in eighty-three federal constituencies, including Sverdlovsk Region, says the Ministry’s press service. For one, Vanadium, a Kachkanar-based ore mining and processing enterprise, has been placed on this list.

The net profit of OOO Home Credit & Finance Bank decreased by 1.26 million RUR, or 37.88% in the last quarter of 2010, that is, from 3.34 million RUR in the third quarter of the year down to 2.01 million RUR in the fourth quarter, the bank’s official report states. The organization explains the drop in profits has to do with having to pay the third quarter’s tax and to make greater advance payments on profit tax.

Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Yuri Trutnev confirmed the list of Russian enterprises that make a negative impact on the environment and must be subject to environmental surveillance by the state. The decrees to this extent were signed in eighty-three federal constituencies, including Sverdlovsk Region, says the Ministry’s press service. For one, OAO Uralvagonzavod Scientific Production Corporation has been placed on this list.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, January 21, 2011. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) delivered 500,000 tons of flat stock made at the company’s Mill 5000 to United Metallurgical Company (OMK), MMK PR Department reports. These wide-measure sheets have been produced by MMK for Vyksunsky Metallurgical Plant (a member of OMK) since November 2009. The product is meant for making large-diameter pipes used in oil and gas pipeline construction. ‘OMK is our company’s strategic partner and one of our Mill 5000 flat stock key consumers,’ says MMK BOD Chairman Viktor Rashnikov. He says MMK

Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Yuri Trutnev confirmed the list of Russian enterprises that make a bad impact on the environment and must be subject to environmental surveillance by the state. For one, OAO Ural Chemical Reagents Plant based in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Region, was placed on this list.

Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Yuri Trutnev confirmed the list of Russian enterprises that make a bad impact on the environment and must be subject to environmental surveillance by the state. For one, OAO Concern Kalina, a cosmetics manufacturer, was placed on this list.

Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Yuri Trutnev confirmed the list of Russian enterprises that make a bad impact on the environment and must be subject to environmental surveillance by the state. For one, Yekaterinburg-based OAO Koltsovo Airport was placed on this list.

The net profit of OAO Khanty-Mansiysky Bank decreased by 40.2% in 2010, that is, from 324.87 million RUR down to 194.38 million RUR. The bank explains the net profit went down because of the need to set up possible loss reserves and because of the growing operating expenses.