The international rating agency gave Chelyabinsk Region BB+ long-term credit rating on the international scale and ruAA- on the national scale, with Stable rating outlook, which signifies the agency’s idea of the region’s conservative debt-management and money reserve policies’ potential. Standard & Poor's representatives actually came to Chelyabinsk earlier to meet Governor Mikhail Yurevitch. As it happens, out of twenty-two Russian federal constituencies which have been rated by the agency, Khanty-Mansiysky and Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Regions are the only territories whose

The Federal Air Transport Agency came up with a list of airlines whose scheduled and chartered flights were delayed in November 2010. According to the data provided by the agency, the list features OAO Aeroflot Russian Airlines. The carrier in question operated 8,399 flights in November 2010, 209 (2%) of which were delayed. Transaero operated 3,618 flights in November, 159 (4%) of which were delayed. Utair operated 4,751 flights, 173 (4%) of which were delayed. Vladivostok Avia operated 899 flights, of which 65 were delayed, and Avianova operated 890 flights, of which 71 (8%) were delayed.

OAO Ural Airlines came up with a performance report for November and the eleven months of 2010 recently. The company served 1,678,999 passengers in January-November 2010, which was 21% better than a year earlier. The airline has reached such a turnover for the first time since it was set up. 636,942 passengers used the company’s international flights, 784,211 people flew around Russia, and 257,846 people flew to and from the CIS member states. As for the month of November, the passengers turnover went up as well and reached 115,430 passengers, which was 9% better than a year earlier. The