Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport, Perm Airlines, and Ust-Katavskiy S.M. Kirov carriage-building plant located in Chelyabinsk Region have been taken off the list of the country’s strategically important enterprises after the Russian Federation President Dmitriy Medvedev’s order was signed on Friday and then published. The President has announced earlier that the list of Russia’s strategically important enterprises was reduced from 208 down to 41, while the list of federal unitary enterprises was reduced from 230 down to 159.

More passengers kept coming through Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo International Airport from various destinations in May 2010 than in May 2009. For one, the airport’s international flights passenger turnover went up by 68.3% against May 2009, the passenger turnover on flights within the CIS rose by 47.5% last month compared with May 2009, while the passenger turnover on domestic flights increased by 14.3%. The airport’s press officer reports the number of passengers flying through Koltsovo increased in May mostly thanks to customers flying to and from Moscow (the number of those jumped by 26.7%

В 9.00 начнется заседание комитета по строительству, жилищно-коммунальной политике и дорожному хозяйству областного ЗСО (ул. Кирова, 114). В 11.00 состоится церемония возложения цветов и венков, посвященная Дню памяти и скорби (мемориал «Вечный огонь»). В 13.00 начнется митинг ветеранов спорта, посвященный Дню памяти и скорби (мемориал около ледового дворца «Уральская молния»). В 13.50 во Дворце пионеров и школьников им. Н.К. Крупской пройдет торжественный прием ветеранов ВОВ, посвященный Дню памяти и скорби.

The Russian Federation Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) received the documents of payment proving that OAO TNK-BP Holding has paid the 1.11-billion-ruble fine for violating the antimonopoly legislation. Now the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation’s Presidium ruled on May 25, 2010 that the FAS’s decision to impose 1.1 billion RUR worth of fines on TNK-Bp Holding was both legitimate and well-grounded.

Khanty-Mansiyskiy Non-State Retirement Fund reduced its pension reserves by 1.1%, or down to 22.68 billion RUR in the first quarter of 2010 compared with the beginning of the year 2010, the Russian Federation Federal Financial Market Service reports. The fund’s own assets shrank by 2.1%; the number of the fund’s participants rose by 4.3%, while the number of individuals participating in the non-state retirement savings program increased by 1%. At the same time, the pension payments were reduced by 4.3 times.

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

OAO Serov Ferrous Alloys Plant agreed not to pay any share dividend for the year 2009. The decision to this extent was made by the plant’s shareholders during the general meeting held in Serov, Sverdlovsk Region. During the AGM, the stockholders also agreed on the changes to the company’s Charter: the changes ensured that the number of BOD members is to come to five people.