УрБК, Москва, 20.05.2011. Международное рейтинговое агентство Fitch Ratings повысило кредитный рейтинг ОАО «Магнитогорский металлургический комбинат». Долгосрочный рейтинг дефолта эмитента ММК был повышен с уровня ВВ до уровня BB+, а долгосрочный рейтинг компании по национальной шкале был повышен с уровня АА- (rus) до уровня АА (rus). Прогноз по рейтингам стабильный. Как отмечает Fitch Ratings, повышение рейтингов ММК отражает завершение масштабных инвестиционных проектов в 2011 году (стан 2000 и металлургический комплекс ММК-Аtakas в Турции), что значительно укрепляет позиции компании как

В 10.00 в пресс-центре «Комсомольской правды» (ул. Красная, 4) состоится пресс-конференция участников ансамбля «Ариэль»: «Запуск нового альбома, в основе которого композиции, написанные еще в звездный период 60-х — 70-х годов и бережно сохраненные». В 10.30 в ресторане «Асаби» (ул. Энгельса, 28) пройдет круглый стол «Защита семьи и детства — надежная инвестиция». В 12.00 в пресс-центре «Комсомольской правды» (ул. Красная, 4) начнется пресс-конференция директора ООО фирма «Верес» Дмитрия Рожкова: «Развитие событий в связи незаконным отключением абонентов».

25 мая в ЮУТПП пройдет круглый стол «Взаимодействие банков и бизнеса. Финансовые инструменты развития». 25-26 мая в Челябинске будет проходить выставка «Все для малого бизнеса: услуги, оборудование, обучение».

An Italian delegation is going to take part in the international exhibition and forum Innoprom 2011. The agreement to this extent was reached when a group of Yekaterinburg-based businesspeople visited Turin and Genoa. Vice President of Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Union of Industrialists and Employers Mikhail Cherepanov joined the delegation to represent the union in Italy. The Russian delegates spoke to the representatives of Italian businesses than operate or have contacts in the mid-Urals (these businesses including ISCRA, SportlnGenova, WTC Genova, Bitron Industrie, Prima

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service took legal action against UC RUSAL Trading House as the Service suspects the company has abused its dominant position on the silicon market. The FAS looked into an application placed by a non-commercial partnership called the Union of Secondary Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Enterprises and now claims UC RUSAL Trading House violated Article 10 (part 1, paragraphs 3 and 5) of the Federal Competition Protection Act, to wit: UC RUSAL Trading House infringes upon its contractor disadvantageous terms of agreement, or the terms unrelated to the agreement proper. The

Alexei Kalinichenko, who was extradited from Morocco, will only arrive in Yekaterinburg tomorrow, Ural Federal District’s division of the Internal Affairs Department informed UrBC. The detainee is currently staying in Moscow. In Russia, Alexei Kalinichenko is suspected of setting up a pyramid scheme called Global Gaming Expo and of appropriating over 1bn RUR worth of Russian citizens’ private savings. The suspect’s business had to do with trading on Forex through an offshore company Livingston Investment as well as through Yekaterinburg-based Bank24.ru (in fact, Alexei Kalinichenko was one of

Ural Airlines recently introduced a scheduled international flight from Yekaterinburg to Kyiv and back. The first flight took over a hundred passengers on board, with all of them receiving gifts like company-logo chocolates and diaries. The flights will be operated once a week, every Wednesday, using an A320 airplane. This is a direct flight, which saves a lot of time (the flight only takes three hours and twenty minutes). In addition, as far as the south-bound destinations are concerned, the company also offers its passengers flights from Yekaterinburg to Sochi, Baku, Yerevan, Tashkent,

The second pilot version of Granit, Russia’s only asynchronic traction drive locomotive (Series 2ES10) that was developed at Sinara Group’s Russian-German joint venture Ural Locomotives has been tested successfully at Sverdlovsk Region Railways. The five-thousand-kilometer drive was targeted at checking the electric locomotive’s performance in the real-world operations conditions. On its first trip, Granit 002 took a 7,000-ton train from Yekaterinburg to Pervouralsk.

The international rating agency Fitch Ratings promoted the credit rating of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). The company’s long-term Issuer Default Rating was increased from BB to BB+, whereas its long-term national scale rating went up from АА- (rus) to АА (rus), with Stable rating outlook. Fitch Ratings reports the improvement in the ratings indicates the completion of large-scale investment projects for the year 2011, namely, Mill 2000 and the metallurgical facility ММК-Аtakas in Turkey), which makes the company’s position of a value-added goods manufacturer significantly

An annual general meeting of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) stockholders was held in Magnitogorsk recently. The shareholders decided to declare a dividend of 0.33 RUR per one ordinary share for the year 2010. They also decided that MMK Management Company should no longer be the sole executive body and that these powers should be relegated to MMK Director-General. The person elected for the position was Boris Dubrovsky, MMK press service reports. Boris A. Dubrovsky was born in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, on November 22, 1958. He graduated from Magnitogorsk Mining &