It was announced in the course of a meeting chaired by First Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Vladimir Molchanov that a regional state-run air carrier dealing in local and regional flights is to be set up in Sverdlovsk Region. The issue was first brought into the limelight during the Russian Federation Minister of Transport Igor Levitin’s visit to Yekaterinburg. The future enterprise will probably be based on the currently operating state-run organization that uses seventeen runways and owns a number of aircraft and some premises. The new business is expected to start operating in

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by UralTransBank to state-run for-profit organizations despite overdraft plummeted by 100% (from 5.967 million RUR to zero) in January-February 2008.

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (ChTPZ Group’s largest tube and pipe manufacturers) supplied their consumers with 256,800 tons of tubular goods in two months of 2008, which falls short of the figures for January-February 2007 (298,100 tons) by 14%, the Group’s press officer said to UrBC. ChTPZ Group sold 134,500 tons of tubes and pipes in two months of the year, which falls short of the figures for a year earlier (that is, 163,500 tons) by 18%. These figures include a 27% decrease in the amount of large-diameter pipes: his came to 70,800 tons compared with 96,800

Ural Airlines has recently come up with a new offer for its customers: a passenger buying a plane ticket to Moscow can make a hotel reservation at the Izmailovo Hotel and can get it confirmed right away. A passenger is thus offered a return ticket from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and back and one- to three-day stay at the hotel (breakfast included) at a lower price, the carrier’s press officer reports. If you stay at the hotel for one day, the price of the offer comes to 9,899 RUR per person in a double room and to 10,900 RUR in a single room; if you stay there for two days, the price will come

The Russian Federation Government assented to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ proposal that a trade department of the Kingdom of Denmark’s Embassy in Yekaterinburg could be set up in the city. The Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel was informed of the news; the proposal had earlier been coordinated by the Russian Federation Ministry for Economic Development and a number of other federal executive authorities as well as the Danish parties involved.