В 11.00 в резиденции губернатора (ул. Цвиллинга, 27) пройдет совещание «О результатах работы государственных, муниципальных заказчиков Челябинской области по переходу к размещению заказов на Общероссийском официальном сайте — проблемы и перспективы. Изменения в законодательстве». В 11.00 состоится заседание комиссии правительства Челябинской области по предупреждению и ликвидации чрезвычайных ситуаций и обеспечению пожарной безопасности (пр. Ленина, 57). В 11.00 пройдет заседание коллегии министерства физической культуры, спорта и туризма Челябинской области (ул. Труда, 187а). В 14.00

13 марта пройдут дополнительные выборы депутатов Челябинской городской думы и 8 муниципальных собраний депутатов. 15-17 марта в ЮУрГУ состоится международная научно-практическая конференция «Экология, охрана водных ресурсов и водоочистка». 24-25 марта в Челябинске будет проходить IV юридический форум Южного Урала.

MMK-Atakas, a joint venture of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and Atakas Group launched its electric steel-smelting facility in Iskenderun, Turkey in the course of a ceremony attended by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. ‘The launch of the department means MMK-Atakas in Iskenderun is actually complete. The metal goods output is expected to reach over 800,000 tons this year already, whereas in 2012, it will come to over 2 million tons. The facility’s production capacity is estimated at 2.3 million tons of ready goods annually,’ MMK reports. The decision to build MMK-Atakas

The analytical center Expert-Ural came up with its traditional rating of the Ural Region-based banks, with data for the start of 2011. SKB-Bank was featured among the leaders in all the ratings, becoming Sverdlovsk Region’s largest organization in terms of asset volume (88.8bn RUR) and Ural Federal District’s second largest bank. The bank was also Ural Federal District’s largest in terms of lending portfolio volume (49.4bn RUR) and proved No. 1 in terms of loans offered to private individuals (the total volume amounted to 24.4bn RUR). As it happens, SKB-Bank managed to raise the volume of

OOO Bank Koltso Urala’s business customers can now feel more comfortable doing business in Asia as the bank now offers them the possibility of transactions involving the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan. ‘We offer our customers an opportunity open a bank account in Japanese yens or Chinese yuans, which will make it easier to do business and will speed our customers’ transactions with their contractors,’ says the bank’s representative Igor Nikulin.

The personnel and customers of MEGA shopping center in Yekaterinburg had to leave the building following a message that a bomb had been left on the premises. The shopping mall’s press center informed the reporters that a team of miners has already arrived at the scene to look for explosives. MEGA in Yekaterinburg hosts IKEA, Auchan, and OBI hypermarkets.

Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) declared upon looking into the performance of Sverdlovsk Region-based banks that the issue of consumer rights protection is as vital on the financial services market as on any other one. Customers unhappy with various banks keep placing increasingly more complaints with the service: the number of those went up from two in 2006 to 33 in 2007 to 84 in 2008 to 86 in 2009 and to 320 in 2010. In the year 2010, most complaints were placed against OOO KB Renaissance Capital, OOO Rusfinance Bank, OAO AKB Rosbank, and

Bank VTB might assume actual control over the Bank of Moscow as soon as this week, Kommersant reports. A source close to one of the Bank of Moscow’s stockholders told the newspaper that Bank VTB’s share in the business will rise not due to acquiring a 3.88% shareholding (currently owned by Goldman Sachs) but due to buying a 2.77% share from Credit Suisse as well as buying a minority shareholding in the Bank of Moscow of about 1.6%.