The passengers of Ural Airlines who use Domodedovo Airport in Moscow can now order a fish meal for their flight free of charge. The fish menu is available since July 27, 2010 on any of the carrier’s scheduled flights except for those bound for the countries of the CIS. Now Ural Airlines also makes it possible for the passengers traveling to certain destinations to order other kinds of special menus. For one, people flying to Moscow can choose between the traditional main course with starters and a vegetarian meal or a light breakfast. The new service makes fish dishes available as well. This

Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport witnessed a great increase in the number of passengers traveling to Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, Bangkok, and Antalya in the first half of 2010. As for the countries of the near abroad, more people flew to Dushanbe, Namangan, Hudzhand, and Tashkent than in the six months of 2009. As far as domestic flights go, Saint Petersburg has become a more popular destination this year.

The trade turnover of YIT declined by 5%, or down to 1.62 billion RUR this year compared with the year 2009. Still, the company’s pre-tax profit grew by 39% and up to ?54.6m against 2009, the concern’s PR Service in Russia informed the media. YIT runs a number of regional offices in Russia, including one in Yekaterinburg. According to the company’s estimates, their trade turnover will go up this year compared with the year 2009; so will their pre-tax profit. ‘It’s obvious that fewer investment homes were built in both Russia and Finland in January-June 2010 against last year. The figures are

The construction of Ural Federal University’s campus on the shores of Lake Shartash will not begin any time before 2013, the university’s Rector Viktor Koksharov announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. The projected campus is to consist of buildings that will house the schools, the student dormitories, a hospital, a library, and an information center as well as some sports facilities. ‘The federal programs do not cover the construction expenses at the moment. This is true not only of our university, this is a general situation for all colleges,’ Koksharov said today. The shores of

The experts of Sverdlovsk Region Hygiene and Epidemiology Center’s consumer rights protection department studied the nature of customer complaints received in the second quarter of 2010 and came to the conclusion that companies and organizations keep violating consumers’ rights. Moreover, the number of the unhappy customers’ petitions against various sole traders and legal entities keeps growing. As far as the financial services sector is concerned, local residents mainly protest against the additional incidental and monthly commissions some banks illegitimately charge for the administration