УрБК, Челябинск, 11.01.2011. К началу января все муниципальные образования Челябинской области подошли с принятыми бюджетами на 2011 год. Сегодня это бюджеты 16 городских округов, 27 муниципальных районов, 273 поселений. Более половины проектов главных финансовых документов высокодотационных муниципалитетов, как того требует Бюджетный кодекс РФ, прошли экспертизу в областном министерстве финансов на предмет соответствия законодательству. По сравнению с прошлым годом количество бюджетов, подлежащих экспертизе, увеличилось в 6 раз — до 192. В ходе формирования местных бюджетов министерством

Flights keep getting canceled at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport; flights to Astrakhan, Yekaterinburg, and London were called off among others, Echo Moskvy, a radio station reports. Meanwhile, General Director of Aeroflot Vitaly Savelyev promised to reporters the other day that no more flights would be called off.

Officers from Severouralsk Investigative Department of Sverdlovsk Region’s Investigative Administration are now carrying out a preliminary inquiry into the fatal accident at UC RUSAL Krasnaya Shapochka mine. The body of the victim, a mine worker, will be subject to a medico-legal investigation in order to detect the time and cause of death. The police are also collecting eye witness evidence as well as looking into documents, employee and management manuals, work sheets, and safety drill records. A twenty-two-year-old breakage face mine worker was killed by a rock fall in one of UC RUSAL

Following the order of Russia’s General Prosecutor Yuri Chaika, Moscow-based Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo Airports keep getting inspected for compliance with the air carriage and passenger service legislation. The officials from Moscow Region’s division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) are taking part in the checks. Rospotrebnadzor’s press officer reports numerous passenger rights violations have already been detected at Domodedovo Airport; it has been reported that the responsibility for these violations rests with Transaero, Siberia, VIM-Avia, Orenburg Airlines, and

Surgut’s public prosecution authorities for transportation checked OOO SKOL Airlines for compliance with the existing aviation safety legislation. It was detected in the course of the inspection that the company had actually violated the laws in question, the press service of Ural Public Prosecutor for Transportation’s Office reports. The airline is reported to perform all of its air safety activities without a license and make 2.2 million RUR worth of profits out of this; such activity violates the requirements of Russia’s Air Code. According to the prosecution authorities’ files, the

FINAM Investment Company recommends buying OAO Uralelectromed’s common stock, with the target price estimated at $124 apiece by the end of 2011. The company’s analysts believe the enterprise’s production facilities expansion plans and its increasing profitability will make Uralelectromed’s share price go up. ‘The company intends to launch its new copper electrolysis shop next year, which will upgrade its production capacity by nearly 40%. So, when it raises its annual copper output to 500,000 tons (which constitutes about 3% of the global consumption), Uralelectromed will become Russia’s