David Reinert has recently been appointed the U.S. Consul-General in Yekaterinburg. Mr. Reinert is expected to remain in office for two years, the spokesperson for the U.S. Consulate-General reports. ‘The official will arrive in Yekaterinburg at the beginning of August and will assume office immediately,’ the spokesperson explains. In the meantime, the former U.S. Consul-General in Yekaterinburg Timothy Sandusky’s term of office has expired.

Ruslan Gusayev was appointed Chairman of Bank Monetniy Dom’s Board of Directors recently. This decision was made at the BOD meeting on May 28, 2010. Besides, Gusayev was also elected one of the bank’s BOD Members at the stockholder meeting on the same day. These changes in the composition of the BOD have to do with the fact that the bank now has new owners.

Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy met the U.S. Consul-General in Yekaterinburg Timothy Sandusky on June 2, 2010. Mr. Sandusky is leaving office, the city’s official website states. The U.S. Consulate has issued 102,500 visas since it was first opened in Yekaterinburg. These figures include 2,700 student and scientific exchange visas and over 36,000 professional exchange ones. Remarkably, the U.S. Consulate General was the first-ever foreign diplomatic representation to be set up in Yekaterinburg (formerly known as Sverdlovsk and a no-foreigners-allowed city). Over 5,000 Russian

Sverdlovsk Region’s Prosecutor Yuri Ponomarev demanded that the authorities look into the fatal accident that occurred in Nizhniy Tagil-based Magnetitovaya mine (asset of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise, Evraz Group) at 12:25 PM on June 3, 2010. According to the preliminary reports, the accident left one worker dead and another one injured. The in-situ inquest will be headed by Deputy Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk Region A.Yu. Chernyshev; the case is also subject to the Prosecutor’s personal supervision. UrBC is going to watch the development of affairs and report on the

В 11.00 состоится заседание Челябинской городской Думы (пл. Революции, 2). В 11.30 в пресс-центре «Комсомольской правды» (ул. Красная, 4) начнется пресс-конференция о качестве тушенки.

1 и 2 июля в Челябинске пройдут аукционы по предоставлению земельных участков для индивидуального жилищного строительства.