Gazpromneftfinans sells shares of Gazpromneft-Ural

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed the 2008-2010 Federal Property Privatization Plan on April 29, 2007. The plan covers a number of enterprises based in Sverdlovsk Region, namely, Beloyarskoye fuel complex (8,623 shares, or 100% of its authorized capital, are to be sold by auction); Kamensk-Uralskiy fuel complex (67,700 shares, or 100% of its authorized capital, are to be sold by auction), Kamyshlov timber and fuel enterprise (172,200 shares, or 100% of its authorized capital, are to be sold by auction), IT and electronics company based in Nizhniy Tagil (22,460 shares, or 100% of

OAO Gazpromneft-Tyumen paid a 16.5-million-ruble fine for price collusion on Tyumen Region’s oil market. The company transferred this sum to the budget after it had lost its case at the appeals instance. Gazpromneft-Tyumen had insisted that the ruling of Tyumen Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service be declared invalid; now the FAS’s division had demanded that the company face administrative liability. Tyumen Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service found out that OAO Gazpromneft-Tyumen, OOO Lukoil-Uralnefteprodukt, and OOO AZS-N1 had colluded on their pricing

According to the findings of a research carried out by Rospotrebnadzor, the federal consumer rights watchdog, forty-two people developed chronic work-related illnesses in Yekaterinburg last year, which means every 0.7 people in 10,000 became ill. This number was 1.4 times greater than that for the year 2008, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Rospotrebnadzor reports. As far as Yekaterinburg goes, these are the machine-building and the construction industries that pose the greatest health hazards to the workers. The number of employees with work-related illnesses was the

The Russian Federation Ministry for Industry and Trade came up with the list of car makes that are liable to recycling under the new stimulus program. The program is expected to boost the sales of new cars through recycling the old ones. Every Russian citizen who recycles an automobile which is over ten years old is given a 50,000-ruble discount by a dealer in case he or she buys a car produced in Russia (and this has to be one of the cars on the list in question). The Russian Federation Government allocated over 11 billion RUR for the program implementation. The program is to be launched on

Moscow, 16 October 2008 – UC RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminium and alumina producer, is pleased to announce its production and summary financial results for the first nine months of 2008. Highlights Bauxite output rose 3.4% to 13.5 mln tonnesљ compared to the same period last year Alumina output grew 2% to reach 8.4 mln tonnes Primary aluminium production increased 6.5% to 3.3 mln tonnes Output of value-added casthouse products increased 10.8% to constitute 51% of the company’s total aluminium output Foil production rose 5.7% Total revenues for the first nine months of 2008 increased 14%