В 10.00 состоится аппаратное совещание администрации Челябинска (пл. Революции, 2). В 12.00 пройдет аппаратное совещание губернатора Челябинской области Михаила Юревича с заместителями и министрами (ул. Цвиллинга, 27).

8–9 декабря в Челябинске пройдет X Уральский инвестиционный форум.

The solemn opening ceremony at Noyabrskaya combined cycle power plant had to be cancelled because of bad weather today. A strong wind forced the airplane with Russia’s Regional Development Minister Viktor Basargin (the event’s special guest) on board land in Surgut. The plane with other ceremony participants, including a number of reporters, which took off in Yekaterinburg, had to perform a landing in Tyumen and wait for over five hours for a permission to operate the flight. In the end, it was decided that the event should be canceled altogether and that all the quests invited should travel

Sverdlovsk Region Government has recently announced a tender for the delivery of iPad computers for the state’s needs. According to the official state purchases website, the government is ready to buy ‘portable digital electronic computers for automated data processing; weight required: under ten kg.’ The customer is looking for computers with the following parameters: support of UMTS/HSDPA, GSM/EDGE, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth data transfer and 64 Gb flash memory module. Applications can be made until November 26, 2010. The opening bid has been determined at 198,000 RUR for six iPad computers.

An on-site scheduled inspection of OAO Stroyplastpolymer aimed at checking the company’s compliance with the environmental legislation has by now been completed. OAO Stroyplastpolymer is a multi-field enterprise dealing in production of linoleum, bricks, sticky tapes, mastics, section products, and other polymeric materials. Six environmental legislation offenses were detected in the course of the inspection. However, one of the problems, namely, unauthorized construction waste storage, was eliminated prior to the end of the inspection. OAO Stroyplastpolymer had its construction waste removed

OAO Bank Uralsib is getting ready to launch an IPO or to sell its shares immediately to a strategic investor next year. The bank is willing to offer its investors as much as a blocking shareholding in the business. At the start of the week, the bank representatives brought the issue up at their meeting with some western investment banks in London, RBC daily reports. The newspaper quotes its source in the bank as saying that as many as eight applications for the shares have already been placed by the world’s leading investment banks, including one by JP Morgan. Two lead managers will be chosen

Head of the Russian Federation Government Vladimir Putin took part in the launch of ZAO ChTPZ Group’s new investment project Iron Ozone 32, a steel-smelting facility. The solemn launching ceremony included making a pilot batch of steel on the new department’s arc furnace. The implementation of the regional metallurgical industry’s largest project since the outbreak of the recession was made possible due to state support. In 2008, ChTPZ Group was placed on the list of Russia’s core enterprises; in 2009, Sberbank offered the company an eight-billion-ruble loan to complete the new department.