In the first half of the year, the Kamensk-Ural Metallurgical Plant (KUMZ, Sverdlovsk Region) received a net profit under RAS of 2.48 billion rubles compared to 485 million rubles a year earlier. The company's revenue increased by 52.2% and amounted to 1.33 billion rubles, Interfax reports with reference to the plant's reporting. Kommersant-Online

JSC NPK Uralvagonzavod (UVZ, Sverdlovsk region) in January-June of this year received 5.27 billion rubles of net loss under RAS against 182.38 million rubles of profit in the first half of 2014, according to the company’s quarterly report. The company's revenue decreased by 34.4%, to 25.03 billion rubles.

The sewerage collector and water pipeline to the 2018 World Cup stadium in Samara will be built before the end of November 2015, the Samara administration reports. “In preparation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a sewerage collector with a diameter of 800 mm and a length of 1.1 km, as well as a water pipeline with a diameter of 500 mm and a length of 4.6 km, are being built near the new stadium. <…> The construction of facilities is carried out ahead of schedule by one and a half to two months.

Ex-United Russia member and current deputy Vyacheslav Ilyukhin, who is running for the Novosibirsk City Council, refused to hold an action to collect signatures demanding the resignation of the Governor of the Novosibirsk Region, Vladimir Gorodetsky. Mr. Ilyukhin told Kommersant about this today.

The chief physician of the First City Hospital of Moscow, Alexey Svet, said that the health condition of People's Artist of the USSR Lev Durov is deteriorating. According to him, doctors diagnosed the artist with severe pneumonia. “He is now with us with negative dynamics; unfortunately, his respiratory failure is increasing. We are working. He has severe pneumonia,” Mr. Svet told RIA Novosti . The message about Lev Durov’s hospitalization appeared on the evening of August 7.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, during a working meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, said that the company had decided to change its business plan towards increasing production volumes at existing fields.

Classification of military losses in peacetime is recognized as legal The decree on classifying losses of the Ministry of Defense does not contradict current laws. This decision was made by the Supreme Court of Russia. The highest authority rejected the complaint of an initiative group of bloggers, journalists and public figures against the document that Vladimir Putin signed on May 28.

Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Andrei Klishas said that the upper house of parliament will take new measures to counter the anti-Russian activities of foreign NGOs.

A criminal case against local residents, 33-year-old Ruslan Vafin and 30-year-old Albina Murzyeva, was transferred to the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan. According to the Tatarstan prosecutor's office, they were charged with illegally organizing and conducting gambling (Article 171.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and illegal use of copyrighted objects (Article 146 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The RBPF Project Financing company filed an application with the Moscow Arbitration Court to declare Mechel OAO bankrupt. The application was received by the arbitration court on August 12, the date for consideration of its validity has not yet been set, RIA Novosti reports with reference to court materials. It is also reported that in July the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court to recover about 732 million rubles from Mechel in favor of RBPF Project Financing came into force.

The government of the Nizhny Novgorod region is challenging in the district court the decision of the City Duma to early terminate the powers of the head of the administration of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Kondrashov and terminate the contract with him. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for August 19, according to the website of the Nizhny Novgorod District Court.

MTS press secretary Dmitry Solodovnikov said that the US authorities’ request to seize telecom assets as part of a corruption case in Uzbekistan does not concern the assets of MTS PJSC and does not affect the company’s activities. “MTS is not the owner of the assets in respect of which US government authorities have sent requests for assistance in seizing assets to a number of European countries.

Moscow authorities and Transneft disagreed on the causes of the fire on the river The culprit of the leak that led to the fire of oil products in the Moscow River is still unclear. The mayor's office believes that the fuel leaked from the Transneft pipeline coming from the Moscow Refinery, but the company believes that the oil products apparently entered the water from the plant itself.

UMMC-Holding made an offer to buy out shares from minority shareholders of Uchalinsky Mining and Processing Plant JSC (UGOK), follows from a message from UGOK. The offer proposal was received on August 12. UMMC proposes to buy out an ordinary share of UGOK with a par value of 20 rubles. for 443 rub. A bank guarantee for the repurchase of shares was provided by Gazprombank. The validity period of the offer is not specified.

Relatives of the passengers of the Malaysian Boeing, which disappeared last March, sharply criticized the editors of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which published cartoons about the latest events surrounding the disaster, The Star reports. “Obviously, the authors do not understand what feelings and what grief the loved ones of those who were on that plane experience.