‘ComsoMall shopping center will probably be opened in September 2010; on July 7, a presentation for the future tenants will be organized by the company. The exact opening date is currently being settled,’ DVI Holding’s press service reports. In fact, this is not the first time the developer has postponed the opening date. In March 2010, DVI Holding announced the shopping center would start operating in June 2010, whereas the original deadline was set for February 2009.

‘The administration of Ural State University of Economics (USUE) cannot possibly claim any advantage over the land allotment in Shartash area of Yekaterinburg because this territory has been reserved for Ural Federal University’s campus. Everything related to overall planning and design documentation is being handled by Ural University Complex run by Alexander Salamatin. This business has no connection with USUE whatsoever. The better part of the allotment in question belongs to the federal authorities, with smaller portions of municipal and regional land. In whichever case, this land belongs

The Ural division of Rostechnadzor (the state environmental, technological, and nuclear safety watchdog) is now looking into the causes of a fatal accident at United Company RUSAL’s Sevuralboksitruda (SUBR) Kalyinskaya mine. Some seismic event with the magnitude of 2.1x104 J occurred in the mine, 1,040 meters below the ground, at 4:00 AM (local time) on July 2, 2010. The event caused the collapse of a round tumbler meant for mine cars unloading within the vault; as a result, two of OOO SUBR-Stroy employees were injured, one of them lethally. The ad hoc committee is to announce the causes of

The Russian Motor Insurers Union took four companies that dealt in the obligatory third party car insurance policies off their list of motor transport insurers. These companies are: Ural AIL, Perm; Vest-Akras, Ryazan; Natsionalnoye Kachestvo, Moscow; Skif-Tver, Tver. The decision to this extent was made by the Union’s Board. Now the companies who no longer hold a membership in the Union have no right to issue any obligatory third party car insurance policies.

Enel completed the regional stage of its PlayEnergy project in May 2010. ENEL Group’s international education/entertainment initiative has been implemented in Sverdlovsk Region for the second time this year through the involvement of Reftinskaya state district power plant (Enel OGK-5) and the schools of Reftinskiy and of some neighboring settlements. All in all, over 1,500 children and young people (school-goers aged 11-17 and students of Asbest polytechnic vocational school) could join the world of energy with ENEL. PlayEnergy provides students and teachers with free materials for organizing

Sberbank of Russia’s Ural branch voiced its suspicions regarding Omega Group Holding: the bank claims the company is trying to avoid paying off the loans Sberbank gave to OOO Omega Spirits Group, OOO Noviye Restorany, Magnum strong drinks chain store, OOO Omega Opt Trading, and OOO Zolotoy Reserve, Sberbank’s recent release states. Omega Group enterprises have been using Sberbank’s loans since 2004. So far, six loan agreements have been signed with the bank. The first overdue debt issues popped up in April 2010, with the sum of such debts reaching 1.26 billion RUR by June 28, 2010. Sberbank

OAO Severstal and OAO Uralvagonzavod reached a compromise on the rolled metal goods delivery in the third quarter of 2010. ‘Under this agreement, the two parties reached an understanding and agreed on the same prices that were set for the second quarter of the year. The monthly deliveries volume was fixed at up to 2,000 tons of metal,’ Severstal reports. The deliveries in question will comprise some metal boiler sheets for Uralvagonzavod. In fact, Severstal only made one shipment to Uralvagonzavod in the second quarter, the company’s press officer explained. The two parties then signed a

It was reported at VSMPO-Avisma’s annual general meeting that the company’s net profit decreased by 15.3 times in the year 2009 compared with the year 2008, that is, down to 175 million RUR. Besides, the corporation’s production output dropped by 26.5%. The company’s stockholders decided that the dividend for the year 2009 should amount to 1.5 RUR per share, whereas a year earlier, the per-share dividend came to 23.14 RUR.

OAO Ural Instrument-Making Plant was included in the list of companies whose debt to the Russian Federation budget reached more than 1 million RUR by June 15, 2010. This news is available via the official website of Russia’s Federal Tax Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division.

Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport is going to pay 35.7% less tax to Sverdlovsk Region’s budget this year. This drop covers for a 100% decrease in profit tax payments, Koltsovo Airport’s General Director Evgeniy Chudnovskiy announced at a regional recession-fighting committee’s meeting. Chudnovskiy explained the lack of profit tax resulted from the fact that Aviaprad Airlines’ debt to the airport had been written off at the time.

OAO The Polar Urals-The Industrial Urals Corporation is not going to declare any share dividend for the year 2009. The decision was taken by the corporation’s stockholders at the AGM on June 26, 2010. In fact, no dividend was paid to the shareholders for the year 2008 either.

The public prosecution authorities of Sverdlovsk Region detected and prevented some illegal gambling activity in Yekaterinburg’s Park House and Greenwich shopping malls this June. 123 pieces of gaming and gambling equipment were confiscated from the two malls, and the gambling activity coordinators are now involved in the administrative offense lawsuits, with charges based on Article 14.1 (part 2) of the Russian Federation Administrative Offense Code (unlicensed entrepreneurial activity). The public prosecution authorities report about ninety illegal gambling clubs have so far been found in

ZAO AMUR, a car manufacturer, was recently included in the list of companies that owe more than 1 million RUR to the Russian Federation budget; the data used were valid as of June 15, 2010. The news is now available via the official website of Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Russian Federation Federal Tax Service. The car factory deals in manufacturing of trucks, road cleaning machinery, and multi-purpose vehicles.

ZAO Lando Auto Center was recently included in the list of companies that owe more than 1 million RUR to the Russian Federation budget; the data used were valid as of June 15, 2010. The news is now available via the official website of Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Russian Federation Federal Tax Service. Lando is currently the official dealer of FAW, Foton, and BAW trucks as well as a representative of VAZ, IzhAvto, and VIZ automobiles in the Urals.

On July 1, 2010, Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service is going to look in the case involving ZAO BNP Paribas Bank and OOO IncorMedia. The two companies are suspected of violating Article 18 of the Advertising Act, as they allegedly practiced sending out text messages with advertisements to mobile phone users without the subscribers’ consent, the FAS’s press officer told UrBC. In fact, the FAS earlier found L’Etoile cosmetics chain store, Limerence shopping center, and OAO Bank24.ru guilty of the same offense.

The Moscow (Vnukovo Airport)-Yekaterinburg flight 303 that was to have been operated by ZAO Nebesniy Express Sky Express at 8:30 PM today was cancelled, the airport’s interactive announcement board said.

The Justice of Peace looked into the evidence provided by Nizhniy Tagil’s Tagilstroyevskiy district public prosecutor and returned the verdict of guilty upon a twenty-four-year-old administrator of a local entertainment center. The accused was originally charged with copyright infringement that affected Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Systems. It was detected by the court that Alexander Botanov had illegitimately bought, stored, and transported pirated copies of Windows XP Professional SP3 Russian Version, Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Russian Version, and other kinds of software products on

‘The idea behind Innoprom was to make this an annual event. Budget money has been invested in this project, so we need this investment to pay off. Any kind of cooperation and attracting serious investors would be very much welcomed. The exhibition’s budget is very impressive, which is why neither a single company nor the regional budget can fully finance the project on its own. We need to consolidate our efforts,’ Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Industry and Science Alexander Petrov announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. Innoprom 2010, the Ural International Industry &

MRSK Urala, the Urals’ interregional electricity distribution network supervisor, had its top managers rotated recently. It was decided at the annual general meeting that the company’s BOD Chairman and General Director of MRSK Holding Nikolai Shvets should leave; the same was true of I.D.M Electricity Distribution Management (Cyprus) Limited Moscow representation’s director Konstantin Shevchenko, OAO FSK EES First Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board Sergey Ivanov, head of I.D.M Electricity Distribution Management (Cyprus) Limited Moscow representation’s Corporate Department Svetlana

The unhappy customers keep placing their complaints against a number of travel agents like OOO Alfa-Travel, OOO Zheltiy Chemodan, OOO Fond Mira Group, OOO TBK Inturline, and OOO Severnaya Palmira with Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Rospotrebnadzor’s Central Yekaterinburg Department. The customers believe their rights have been violated in that the agents failed to provide them with some essential information. Also, they appear to inflict upon the customers the terms of contract that infringe on their legal rights, the spokesperson for Rospotrebnadzor reports. Following an administrative