Alatyr shopping mall’s recreation area was partially closed a few days ago. ‘Our movie theater and the food court are working as usual, and the bowling will resume operating soon. However, we no longer have the former children’s play area known as the Entertainment Galaxy,’ the mall’s managers informed UrBC but refused to provide any explanations. Alatyr was set up in Yekaterinburg at the end of 2009. The mall’s key tenants are Media Markt (the German electronic goods chain store), Carousel hypermarket, and Cinema Park Movie Theater.

X5 Retail Group, the company that runs Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, and Carousel supermarket chains, recently announced that Carousel was about to re-launch its customer loyalty program through offering its Magic Card discount cards for sale. As it happens, Yekaterinburg-based Carousel supermarkets located in Park House and Alatyr malls stopped accepting the regular customer cards in March 2010, despite the fact that the customers had actually paid to get them. At first, the new loyalty scheme will only be available in Moscow and Moscow Region; by the summer of 2010, the scheme will be fully

On June 1, 2010, Ural Airlines will offer its customers a new flight to the South of Russia. This Moscow-Gelendzhik flight is to be operated on a modern and comfortable A 320 aircraft under the following timetable. The plane to Gelendzhik leaves Domodedovo Airport of Moscow at 9:45 AM every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday and arrives in Gelendzhik at 11:50 AM. On Sundays, the plane leaves Domodedovo at 2:10 PM and lands in Gelendzhik at 4:10 PM. The plane back to Moscow takes off in Gelendzhik at 1:20 every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday and lands in Domodedovo at 3:25 PM. On Sundays, the plane

The net loss of Moscow Bank for Reconstruction and Development rose by 796.197 million RUR, or 998.1%, in the first quarter of 2010. The loss figures increased from 88.65 million RUR in the last quarter of 2009 to 884.847 million RUR in the first quarter of 2010. The bank explains this rise of net loss has to do with the one-time installment of the possible loan loss reserves worth 957 million RUR. The reserves had to be set up in order to back up the bank’s large-scale loans in compliance with the Central Bank of Russia’s Provision No 254-P adopted on March 26, 2004. The Provision states the

The Chairman of the Federal Trade Union of the Russian Air Dispatchers’ Ural division Mikhail Abramov was recently asked to pay a visit to the regional public prosecution authorities’ transportation unit. According to Mr. Abramov, the authorities only wanted to be put into the picture. ‘They asked me to explain what was going on among the air dispatchers at the airport. I told them they wanted to support their colleagues from Rostov-on-Don and so went on strike to show their sympathy for the case,’ he said. The clash between the management and the trade union, which started in March 2010,