Atomenergomash buys Energomashspetsstal in Donetsk region.

MOSCOW, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian nuclear power
engineering company Atomenergomash, which is incorporated in the Rosatom
state corporation, has bought a controlling stake of Energomashspetsstal,
a producer of special steels and billets for nuclear power plant equipment
based in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, a Rosatom source told
Itar-Tass on Friday.
"This is a very profitable deal for the state corporation, because
today this plant has a license for supplies on the world nuclear market,"
the source said.
One of the main arguments in favour of buying this plant was that
"when Russia purchases the enterprise orders can be placed with it much
simpler and easier for our equipment production of new power units." "If
we had not bought the plant, our rivals on the nuclear market would have
bought it," he noted.
This plant will become another supplier that produces special steels
and billets for our plants manufacturing heavy machine-building products
for nuclear power plants, the Rosatom source elaborated.
"When we place orders to produce special steels and equipment on the
enterprises, which Russia does not possess, we should also pass our
know-how to them," the Rosatom source said. Launching the production on
our order an enterprise, which is situated in another country, "can sell
it wherever it wants," the source said. "We are controlling this process
now," he added.
Rosatom considers the purchase of the Ukrainian enterprise as one of
the most successful asset acquisition deals of the state corporation in
the outgoing year. Rosatom will make public all the details of the deal in
the near future.

.Strong cyclone raging over Kamchatka.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- A strong cyclone
is raging over the southern districts of Kamchatka on Saturday. A storm
warning was made. The school classes were cancelled. Flights on the local
airlines were suspended. The Kamchatka residents were recommended to be
careful in the streets.
The southern Ust-Bolsheretsk district was the hardest hit of the
cyclone overnight to Saturday, when the hurricane winds reached 46 meters
per second. The gusts of wind reached 32 meters per second in
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. No snow blizzards were reported on the
peninsula. The storm is raging in the Northwest Pacific off the Kamchatka
coast with the waves six meters high.
The flight arrivals from the mainland are delayed over the bad
weather. A Transaero flight from the Moscow Domodedovo airport is
postponed for December 26. An Aeroflot flight is delayed from the
Sheremetyevo airport to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The Kamchatka air
traffic authorities have not decided finally whether flights will be made
on the routes between the peninsula and Khabarovsk, Vladivostok. The
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky airport, which the Kamchatka main air harbour, is
opened, but the air traffic situation is complicated by high winds. The
gusts of wind reach 28 meters per second, the airport flight controlling
service reported.
A high avalanche hazard is announced in the territorial highlands. The
enterprises, which operate near the highlands, are instructed to take
tougher safety measures. Tourists and amateurs of mountain kinds of sport
are recommended to refrain from mountain hiking.
The weather will be getting better on the southern peninsula by
Saturday evening.
No accidents and major breaks in the operation of the life-supporting
systems in the settlements were reported in the territory, a source in the
main EMERCOM department in the Kamchatka Territory told Itar-Tass on
Saturday.

.Moskva air company director resigns.

MOSCOW, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Director General of the Moskva air
company Yevgeny Bachurin resigned, Andrei Manzelidze was appointed as
acting director, a source in the air company told Prime-Tass on Friday.
Manzelidze represents the interests of the UTair Airlines, the source
said.
Speaking on the future of the Moskva air company the source noted that
the air company may go bankrupt. The Moskva air fleet and its route
network may be passed to UTair.
Meanwhile, the Moskva air company is preparing to make a resolution
for staff layoffs, the source said.
The Moscow government air company was earlier called the Atlant-Soyuz
air company, but it was renamed in the Moskva air company in July 2010.
The Moskva air company transported 1,286,000 passengers for 11 months of
2010 that is 31% higher than for the same period in 2009.
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