‘On May 18, 2009, we were informed that Ramada Hotel had been fully completed, so our experts carried out the final inspection of the building three days later. Some grave violations were detected in the course of this inspection; these were related to hygienic regulations, fire safety, and construction standards. Our experts thus declared that the building was actually not ready to be commissioned,’ Sverdlovsk Region’s Administration for State Construction Surveillance representatives said to UrBC. According to the Administration, the finishing work of the interior was also not complete; nor

Ural Airlines started offering its customers the tickets for its new scheduled Yekaterinburg-Beijing flight on June 5, 2009. The first flight to the Chinese capital is to be operated on July 1, 2009. The non-stop flight will be performed on an A 320 airplane two times a week. The Yekaterinburg-Beijing flight’s departure time is 8.20 PM every Wednesday and Sunday; the arrival time is 4 AM on Thursday and Monday, respectively. The plane operating the Beijing-Yekaterinburg flight takes off at 5.15 AM on Thursdays and Mondays and lands in Yekaterinburg at 9.25 AM. The departure and arrival times

Bank VEFK-Ural’s trustee in bankruptcy has been faced with 1264.1 million RUR worth of claims laid by 489 creditors. The claims of 379 creditors (worth 1182.3 million RUR altogether) have been acknowledged; this figure includes the claims of 86 top-priority creditors (whose claims amount to 9.9 million RUR). The trustee in bankruptcy is currently considering the papers presented by 109 creditors (with claims amounting to 68.8 million RUR); 13 million RUR worth of claims has already been rejected. The information as to Bank VEFK-Ural’s bankruptcy proceedings is carried by Oblastnaya Gazeta.

The shaft man killed at UC RUSAL’s Severouralsk bauxite mine (SUBR) Cheremukhovskaya mine actually died of asphyxia, the investigative authorities reported recently. ‘Evgeniy Provalniy was killed by the mined rock collapsing right upon the victim while he was busy scaling. The man died of mechanic asphyxia, as his neck and chest were strangulated by the rock,’ the authorities’ press release states.

Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Migration Service is not going to accept any foreign passport applications during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Yekaterinburg, the spokesperson for the Service reports. The spokesperson explains this has to do with the possible difficulties the city dwellers might have getting around Yekaterinburg on June 15-17, 2009. Nevertheless, the applications for the new-generation passports will be accepted on June 12-14, 2009; those who’ve placed their applications earlier will also be able to obtain their passports at the office.