В 10.00 в Чебаркуле пройдет общее собрание ассоциации муниципальных образований горнозаводского округа Челябинской области «Горный Урал». В 10.00 в университетском комплексе «Сигма» (пр. Ленина, 78в) представители регионального правительства, областной и городской администрации встретятся со студентами Челябинской области, чтобы обсудить проблемы молодежи и пути их решения. В 10.30 глава администрации Челябинска Сергей Давыдов примет участие в презентации проекта благоустройства двора по ул. Российской, 19. В 11.00 пройдет заседание рабочей группы по разработке программы правового просвещения

С 18 по 20 мая в Челябинске пройдет выставка «Урал-FOOD. Тара. Упаковка. Оборудование».

Elizabeth Hafner, Director for Russia and Eurasia US Trade is going to visit Yekaterinburg on April 26, 2011. Ms Hafner is expected to meet the members of Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs, to give a speech to the students of a local college, and to take part in the session of the Presidential Program Alumni Association’s top club dedicated to the benefits of joining the WTO in terms of innovational economic development. As far as Ural Federal District goes, Ms Hafner is also going to pay a visit to Tyumen.

Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service decided to halt the share issue of Yekaterinburg-based Ural Transportation Machine-Building Plant’s ordinary registered paperless shares. The additional share issue was registered as 1-01-55454-E-002D on March 29, 2011.

Bank Severnaya Kazna stopped operating as a legal entity with such a name on April 20, 2011. The application for listing the bank as liquidated through a merger was placed with the state body in charge of registering legal entities. The Bank of Russia announced in late March that Bank Severnaya Kazna had begun merging with Alfa-Bank.

The international rating agency downgraded the Russian telecommunications operator VimpelCommunications long-term credit rating as well as the accompanying liabilities ratings from BB+ to BB. The ratings were also taken off the CreditWatch list, with Negative rating outlook. The rating agency’s analysts feel that the acquisition of Wind Telecom will increase VimpelCom and VimpelCom Ltd’s liabilities burden considerably, which means this debt load will not meet the BB+ criteria.

SkyExpress halted the operation of flights from Tyumen on April 18, 2011. Passengers with tickets for the flights that have been cancelled can either travel to Moscow from Yekaterinburg or Chelyabinsk or get their money back. Passengers who want to take the plane after April 18, 2011, will be notified by our Booking Center in a timely manner. They will be offered airplane tickets for Yekaterinburg-Moscow or Chelyabinsk-Moscow flights instead, or they can apply for a refund in accordance with the existing reimbursement regulations,’ the company’s official release says.