The net loss of Ural Railway Machine-Building Plant amounted to 22.65 million RUR in the last quarter of 2009 (compared with 68.35 million RUR worth of net loss in the third quarter of the year). The enterprise reports its losses were smaller because the company received greater interest on the money lent in the fourth quarter of 2009 and also due to increased other profits coming from the subsidies meant to compensate for the plant’s investment loan payments in the last quarter of the year.

The Consul General of the French Republic in Yekaterinburg Claude Crouail visited two of Ural Mining & Metallurgical Company UMMC-Agro’s division’s enterprises: Patrushi farm and ZAO Teplichnoye. M. Crouail examined Patrushi’s modern dairy farm that produces over 8 tons of milk per cow every year (Sverdlovsk Region’s best result so far). In Teplichnoye, the official could look at the application of the new, small-capacity vegetable-raising technology. The new technology means the vegetables and plants are grown in special mineral mats rather than in soil; each item is placed in a separate

‘My expert opinion is that it is unwise to invest in Yekaterinburg-based real estate because the local market’s pricing policy is anything but transparent. One should only buy a place to live or to do business there. So I wouldn’t trust the claims made by the developer of Admiralskiy housing complex as to the profitability of investing in this construction project. As a matter of fact, local housing is overpriced and is not likely to grow any more expensive in the next few years. On the other hand, given the shrinking number of buildings under construction, the prices are not likely to go

Ural Federal District’s division of Rosprirodnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) carried out inspections of Sverdlovsk Region’s enterprises and found four violations at OAO Pervouralskoye Mine Administration, the spokesperson for Rosprirodnadzor reports. The company received four warrants for inaccurate presentation of environmentally relevant information and one administrative offense protocol. Rosprirodnadzor also detected violations at OAO Malyshevskoye Mine Administration, OAO Nizhniy Tagil Boiler & Radiator Plant, OAO Ural Foil, and ZAO Turinskiy Pulp & Paper Mill.

УрБК, Челябинск, 02.03.2010. Губернатор Челябинской области Петр Сумин подписал распоряжение о создании рабочей группы для разработки прогноза продовольственного баланса в регионе. Как пояснили в пресс-службе губернатора, в рамках федеральной программы по формированию продовольственной безопасности в стране будут составлены индивидуальные прогнозы по каждой области. Региональные программы будут объединены в единую государственную и позволят выяснить, какие территории производят достаточное или избыточное количество продукции, а какие нуждаются в продовольственной поддержке. Так, к примеру,

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin, whose term in office expires in April 2010, asked not to run for Governor again, RIA Novosti refers to United Russia’s press service as reporting. Now United Russia is supposed to propose the candidates for the position of Chelyabinsk Region’s Governor to the President. In fact, Yuri Neelov, Alexander Filipenko, and Eduard Rossel have already left offices as Governors of Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous Region, Khanty-Mansiyskiy Autonomous Region, and Sverdlovsk Region, respectively.

Starting March 30, 2010, Ural Airlines is going to operate its new Tashkent-Samara flight. The flight will be operated every week using an A320 airplane according to the following timetable: Tashkent-Samara: departure time is 4 AM; arrival time is 7:10 AM on Tuesdays; Samara-Tashkent: departure time is 11:50 PM on Mondays, arrival time is 2:40 AM on Tuesdays; all the time given is local. In addition, Ural Airlines has been operating flights from Tashkent to Yekaterinburg for over ten years now. Last year, the company also introduced Tashkent-Krasnodar and Namangan-Yekaterinburg flights.

The value of Uralfinprombank’s assets decreased by 1,863,721,000 RUR, or 26.9% in February 2010. The bank’s assets were worth 6,927,664,000 RUR on February 1, 2010 and only 5,063,943,000 RUR on March 1, 2010. The bank explains that the drop in asset value has to do with the fact that the balance of their Last Year Financial Performance account was transferred to their Last Year’s Profit account.

‘The share of Russian cars on the Russian automobile market comes to 38.8%, the share of new foreign cars is 35%, the share of foreign cars assembled in Russia comes to 13.6%, and the share of used foreign cars comes to 12.6%. Also, about 54% of cars on our roads are under ten years old and the remaining 46% of automobiles are over ten years old. As for Yekaterinburg, there are 320 cars per 1,000 dwellers,’ Chair of Yekaterinburg Commodities Market Committee Elena Chernysheva announced at a meeting with the heads of local automobile businesses. ‘Last year, one local car center had to close

Rostechnadzor (the federal environmental, technological, and nuclear safety watchdog) is going to carry out a scheduled inspection of OAO Holding MRSK and its daughter enterprises. The order to this extent has recently been signed by Rostechnadzor’s head. The electricity network provider will be checked for compliance with the legal requirements in the field of electric power industry and with the earlier orders of Rostechnadzor’s regional divisions. Also, the inspectors will see whether the company keeps taking measures to avoid doing damage to people’s life and health and to the

The town of Kachkanar, Sverdlovsk Region should concentrate on mountain skiing infrastructure, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin said during his visit to the town on March 3, 2010. ‘There is a unique mountain here that both the ore mining and processing enterprise and the mayor could take advantage of. We intend to develop the mountain skiing business here. In fact, this used to be a rather popular place back in the Soviet times, but the activity died out later. Now we have a chance to turn this skiing business into one of the town’s major economic diversification projects,’

Yekaterinburg’s Ordzhonikidzevskiy district’s public prosecution authorities laid a claim against ZAO AKADO-Yekaterinburg, the Internet provider, in order to set a limit to online distribution of information, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) reports. Now Rospotrebnadzor’s experts were involved in the case as a third party. According to Rospotrebnadzor’s regional division, www.trava66.ru website carried an advertisement of Spice Diamond, the tobacco mix. The court ruled in favor of the public prosecution authorities.

‘We’ll do everything that is necessary to raise the public sector workers’ salaries by at least 15%, which means Sverdlovsk Region’s average pay should increase to 20,400 RUR a month this year,’ Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin said to the local dwellers during his visit to Asbest. ‘We’ll also keep on putting up new day care centers. We need room for 52,000 more children at the moment, with each child in a kindergarten costing the budget about a million rubles. This means we need 1 billion RUR to solve the problem. The state authorities can and should devise and implement a

Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service found OAO Bank24.ru guilty of an administrative offense as described in Article 5 (part 7) of the Advertising Act, the spokesperson for the division says. The offense consisted in using inadequate ads next to the entrance to one of the bank’s offices in July-September 2009. The advertisements read, ‘A free settlement account for legal entities and sole traders,’ and ‘Open a settlement account for free.’ Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service declared the advertisement was inappropriate because it failed

Yekaterinburg-based OOO Stroycity was pronounced a dishonest supplier by Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service after the company had won a tender but refused to sign a contract for servicing and repair of elevators and communication circuit in Yekaterinburg’s central municipal clinic 24. The contract was worth 522,540 RUR altogether.

Following the order of Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Zolotov’s order, the public prosecution authorities of Sverdlovsk Region carried out an inspection of federal property and detected numerous instances of its illegal use, the spokesperson for Ural Federal District’s division of the General Prosecutor’s Office reports. It was detected that the waste treatment facilities of Zarechniy, Sverdlovsk Region that are managed by Beloyarskaya nuclear power plant had been used by a private company since the year 2007 without any contract whatsoever and without any license

Yekaterinburg’s Oktyabrskiy district court ruled in favor of Sverdlovsk Region environmental prosecution authorities; the plaintiff insisted that DVI Ural pay over 870,000 RUR to make up for the damage caused by cutting down trees when ComsoMall shopping center was being put up, says Deputy Prosecutor Igor Melkov. ‘The company did have a permission to cut down some trees, but they were supposed to have paid for the damage and to have planted an equivalent number of new trees. The developer did not do any of this,’ Melkov explains. OOO DVI Ural is a developer that worked on the engineering

Last year, the experts of Nizhniy Tagil Customs carried out eleven pro bono examinations of supposedly counterfeited goods. In fact, all of the inspected products did turn out to be fakes. All in all, 750 items were declared to be counterfeited, most of which were sportswear articles bearing Adidas and Nike logos. Since the beginning of 2010, Nizhniy Tagil Customs officers have confiscated 430 items, mostly clothes and footwear bearing the logos of Lacoste, Adidas, Umbro, and Nike. Their examination indicated that all of them were pirated items.

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin keeps visiting the region’s towns. For one, he is about to come to Asbest and meet the town council representatives in M. Gorkiy Education & Leisure Center. Also, tomorrow afternoon the Governor is going to leave Yekaterinburg for two days in order to visit Kachkanar, Lesnoy, and Serov.

During his recent visit to Sysert, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin promised to come up with a detailed action plan aimed at solving the town’s problems. The Governor visited Sysert with United Russia’s Secretary to General Council Vyacheslav Volodin. Alexander Misharin met some of the local dwellers and spoke about last year’s main socioeconomic achievements; he also explained what his expectations were for the year 2010 and answered the citizens’ questions. According to the available official data, the average pay comes to 15, 160 RUR a month in Sysert, whereas the