‘ChelyabEnergoSbyt received the certificate of readiness for the winter season. We have done plenty of work, such as drawing up the schedules for limiting electricity supply for the period when our facilities are normally overloaded,’ Sergey Sukhodoev, Deputy GD of ChelyabEnergoSbyt, the electricity supplier, announced at the press conference of power generating and supplying companies. ‘In case of emergency, our power facilities will decrease their capacity to 967 megawatts, which amounts to 20% of the total regional energy consumption. All the schedules have been approved of by the regional

The amount of foreign investments coming to Chelyabinsk Region has risen by 48.6% over the nine months of 2006 (compared with January-September 2005) and amounted to $961.2m, says Chelyabinsk Region Minister of Economic Development Yuri Klepov. This increase has largely been caused by the attempts of the regional government to create the conditions that would attract the foreign investors to the region; besides, Chelyabinsk Region has been quite stable both economically and politically lately. In addition, a system of interconnected legislative acts aimed at promoting investing activity was

‘Since Yekaterinburg Meatpacking Plant is now the object of an administrative quarrel, the employees would really like to know if they are going to keep their jobs. They organized a demonstration this morning, demanding to see the group of people led by Fedor Gafinets that entered the premises of the plant on November 28, 2006,’ the Marketing and Advertising Director of the plant Alexander Boboshin said to UrBC representative. ‘The workers demands were for the plant to operate uninterruptedly, for the wages to be paid with no delay, and for no redundancies to be made. They were not able to

Airbus 320, recently acquired by Ural Airlines, performed its maiden flight (Yekaterinburg-Istanbul) today. Upon its arrival back in Yekaterinburg, the aircraft will be used for flights destined for Saint Petersburg and Yerevan. According to the carrier’s Commercial Director Kirill Skuratov, the new liner will not service one particular direction only but will transfer passengers on both international and domestic flights. The news was reported by the spokesperson for Ural Airlines.

Energozaschita Insurance Broker JSC conducted a number of tenders for property and private insurance agreements with power generating companies comprising RAO UES of Russia. Ingosstrakh insurance company won the tender announced by Center and Northern Caucasus Interregional Network Company JSC in the following categories: - insurance of property against fire and other calamities, against terrorism, insurance of machines and equipment against breakdowns, insurance against disruption of production, and multi-purpose insurance of building and assembly jobs for Corporate Service Systems;

Energozaschita Insurance Broker JSC conducted a number of tenders for property and private insurance agreements with power generating companies comprising RAO UES of Russia. Ingosstrakh insurance company won the tender in the following categories: - voluntary medical insurance, insurance against accidents and diseases for KolymaEnergo, MagadanEnergo, and YakutskEnergo; - civil liability insurance for entities using dangerous production facilities and waterworks for KolymaEnergo, MagadanEnergo, YakutskEnergo, AmurEnergo, Verkneye-Mutnovskaya Power Plant, and GEOTHERM JSC; -obligatory car

According to the CEO of one of Moscow’s credit reporting agencies, he received a letter from the Federal Financial Market Service asking him to produce all papers needed to conduct an office inspection on Monday. The letter says that the inspector will analyze all the documents the agency has, and these have to be produced before November 30, 2006. The players on the credit reporting agencies market are positive that these untimely requests for papers will be experienced by them all. However, the strict measures, they say, will probably affect small and regional agencies first. Experts

An accident occurred at Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk yesterday. According to the press officer for Chelyabinsk Region Department of Emergencies, fire broke out at the sheet-rolling shop of the Complex at 7.30 PM and covered the area of 1,000 square meters, resulting in the 1,200-square-meter roof failure. There were fourteen people there at the moment, working with the four tubs full of hydrochloric acid, five rinse tanks, and wringer rolls. Eight of them were injured and evacuated; six people were sent to hospitals with varying gravity of condition, and two of them

The person to receive the special 300,000th VISA card issued by Chelindbank was Irina A. Morozova of Kopeisk, the employee of Servicecom Ltd. (the bank provides salary cash cards for the company). According to the spokesperson for the bank, they have completed 1,490 salary card schemes for business and organizations of Chelyabinsk and Chelyabinsk Region so far. The bank’s ATM network comprises 107 ATMs as well as some cash desks based in all the subsidiaries and offices of the banks. Chelindbank is also trying to increase the number of non-cash transactions: the card holders can now pay for

The South Ural office of UralBusinessConsulting won the Best Journalist Paper about Sberbank of Russia in Chelyabinsk Region competition. The contest was held by Chelyabinsk division of Sberbank of Russia and targeted at drawing the attention of the mass media to the issues of trust building in terms of Russia’s banking system; the bank also wanted the population to learn more about the services it provides. The competition included four categories (TV, radio, press, online media) and was timed with the 165th anniversary of the bank. Over 50 mass media entities took part in the contest. The

The militia station located in Chkalovskiy district of Yekaterinburg received a message from the General Director of Yekaterinburg Meatpacking Plant Ltd. Vladimir Martsenyuk about the attempted takeover at 5.50 PM on November 28, 2006. A group of officers arrived at the plant and characterized the incident as a quarrel between two business entities, yet the founders of the plant call it a raid. ‘The investigation revealed that two citizens entered the premises of the plant, produced the minutes of the general shareholder meeting and showed it to Mr Martsenyuk; according to the minutes, the

‘When putting up this housing complex, we are trying to combine the implementation of the multi-faceted area development concept with its scientific justification,’ the Managing Director of Academic construction project Stanislav Pridvizhkin aanounced at today’s conference of Union of Sverdlovsk Region Builders. ‘Our aim is to achieve the synergy effect: we’ll create an area suitable for both living and doing business, as well as for dealing in trade, personal services, and creating the entertainment infrastructure. This means we use the multi-purpose approach to town planning; this project

All shops of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) are still operating stably despite the cold weather that has set in. Thanks to the well-organized performance of the personnel, the raw produce is unloaded and shipped smoothly, and all the facilities work okay. The defrosting garages located in Lebyazhinskiy agglomeration shop are functioning without any interruptions, with the temperatures necessary for safekeeping of railway carriages maintained at all times. The unloading of burden material is kept in compliance with the schedule; due to the additional

‘Sverdlovsk Region Government and I support the actions of Ural Airlines. The thing is, this carrier is the only one on the large market that tackles the social responsibility of business,’ Governor Eduard Rossel announced at the press conference. ‘The planes of Ural Airlines perform flights to almost all possible destinations, including the ones that are not so profitable for them, whereas Moscow carriers, for instance, only choose the flights that yield good revenues,’ Mr Rossel said. ‘Ural Airlines manage to meet the needs of all of its potential clients as well as develop their business

Airbus 320, recently acquired by Ural Airlines, performed its maiden flight (Yekaterinburg-Istanbul) today. Upon its arrival back in Yekaterinburg, the aircraft will be used for flights destined for Saint Petersburg and Yerevan. According to the carrier’s Commercial Director Kirill Skuratov, the new liner will not service one particular direction only but will transfer passengers on both international and domestic flights. The news was reported by the spokesperson for Ural Airlines.

Energozaschita Insurance Broker JSC conducted a number of tenders for property and private insurance agreements with power generating companies comprising RAO UES of Russia. Ingosstrakh insurance company won the tender announced by Center and Northern Caucasus Interregional Network Company JSC in the following categories: - insurance of property against fire and other calamities, against terrorism, insurance of machines and equipment against breakdowns, insurance against disruption of production, and multi-purpose insurance of building and assembly jobs for Corporate Service Systems;

Energozaschita Insurance Broker JSC conducted a number of tenders for property and private insurance agreements with power generating companies comprising RAO UES of Russia. Ingosstrakh insurance company won the tender in the following categories: - voluntary medical insurance, insurance against accidents and diseases for KolymaEnergo, MagadanEnergo, and YakutskEnergo; - civil liability insurance for entities using dangerous production facilities and waterworks for KolymaEnergo, MagadanEnergo, YakutskEnergo, AmurEnergo, Verkneye-Mutnovskaya Power Plant, and GEOTHERM JSC; -obligatory car

According to the CEO of one of Moscow’s credit reporting agencies, he received a letter from the Federal Financial Market Service asking him to produce all papers needed to conduct an office inspection on Monday. The letter says that the inspector will analyze all the documents the agency has, and these have to be produced before November 30, 2006. The players on the credit reporting agencies market are positive that these untimely requests for papers will be experienced by them all. However, the strict measures, they say, will probably affect small and regional agencies first. Experts

An accident occurred at Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk yesterday. According to the press officer for Chelyabinsk Region Department of Emergencies, fire broke out at the sheet-rolling shop of the Complex at 7.30 PM and covered the area of 1,000 square meters, resulting in the 1,200-square-meter roof failure. There were fourteen people there at the moment, working with the four tubs full of hydrochloric acid, five rinse tanks, and wringer rolls. Eight of them were injured and evacuated; six people were sent to hospitals with varying gravity of condition, and two of them

The person to receive the special 300,000th VISA card issued by Chelindbank was Irina A. Morozova of Kopeisk, the employee of Servicecom Ltd. (the bank provides salary cash cards for the company). According to the spokesperson for the bank, they have completed 1,490 salary card schemes for business and organizations of Chelyabinsk and Chelyabinsk Region so far. The bank’s ATM network comprises 107 ATMs as well as some cash desks based in all the subsidiaries and offices of the banks. Chelindbank is also trying to increase the number of non-cash transactions: the card holders can now pay for