RENOVA-StroyGroup’s Academic construction project won the first prize in the Master Plan category on the Russian stage of Fiabci Prix D'exellence International Contest. Fiabci Prix D'Excellence is one of the world’s most prestigious real estate competitions run by FIABCI (the International Real Estate Federation) since 1992. The main idea behind the contest is to single out the best objects and to look into the new development trends on the real estate market. ‘Our victory was not sheer luck. Academic is both Russia and Eruope’s largest housing construction project, with its unique

‘Car dealers are now selling dubious cars alongside with the good ones; as a result, even the purchase of an automobile declared as new cannot guarantee the customers that they are buying a vehicle that really hasn’t been, say, involved in a crash. Now the law states that a seller must warn the customers about all the defects a car might have. Still, there are cases when a car is claimed to be brand new when it’s not, so the customer gets no warning whatsoever. So, in the end a newly bought ‘brand new car’ somehow won’t start,’ Vice President of All-Russian Consumer Protection League Andrei

The bank’s BOD decided on September 7, 2010 that eight of its subsidiaries would be converted into regular operational offices. The change will involve Rus-Bank’s representations in Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Penza, Kazan, Astrakhan, Kurgan, and Kursk.

OAO MegaFon, a mobile operator, keeps expanding the range of services available through its video portal. The company now offers over thirty different channels to smartphone/Android users. People whose phones support Android can enjoy the specially created Video Portal to watch the channels without having to download the service mobile website; they can also administer their subscriptions, subscribe to and unsubscribe to channels, and create the Favorite Programs list. The software can be downloaded either through Android Market or via wap.megafonpro.ru in the Video Portal section. By

Ural Airlines is going to keep operating its Yekaterinburg-Barcelona flight in winter for the first time this year. In the summertime, the flight was operated twice a week and proved extremely popular with passengers. In the second half of the year, the flight will be operated every Saturday. This is, in fact, not the only scheduled Europe-bound flight the airline offers for the winter 2010-2011. The carrier will also operate flights to Rome, Prague, Munich, Paris, and Salzburg.