Igor Kim, who, with a number of co-investors, became the owner of Barclays Bank a month ago, started reorganizing his new business. Since the new proprietors are not prepared to make up for the bank’s losses by capital inflow as the British parent enterprise Barclays used to do every year, the bank will start with cutting down on expenses. For one, about a quarter of the employees will be made redundant, while the pay of the remaining staff will be cut by 20%, Kommersant reports. Serious personnel changes began at the bank as soon as the new owners arrived in late October, a few of Barclays’s

Rezhnickel Production Association dumped 24,600 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 4.9% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Rezh. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.