Ural Airlines is going to introduce additional flights from Yekaterinburg to Norilsk, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, and Yerevan as a special New Year offer. This is why the company’s airplanes will operate flights to these cities on December 28, 30, and 31 in addition to the regular weekly ones. Ural Airlines’ customers need to travel much more during the holiday season and the New Year break, as this time of the year is great for long-distance traveling and meeting relatives and friends in other cities. So, the air carrier decided to launch a number of extra flights. All these flights are

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service received a petition from the American company PepsiCo regarding the possible acquisition of Wimm Bill Dann Foods, a Russian dairy foods manufacturer, RIA Novosti quotes FAS’s deputy head Andrei Tsyganov as reporting. The news of the upcoming transaction was announced on December 2, 2010. The company will probably be sold for $5.8bn. PepsiCo intends to buy a 66% shareholding in Wimm Bill Dann for $3.8bn first and will launch an offer for the acquisition of the remaining shares later. Tsyganov also said the transaction was to be considered by a governmental

The Federal Financial Markets Service’s Ural Federal District division ordered on December 14, 2010 through a decree 62-10-1801/pz-i that the issue of Sverdlovsk Region-based Piastrella Trading House’s common registered paperless shares must be halted.

Russian air carriers started selling tickets for the nonexistent flights to France, Rostourism reports. The agency warns the Russian tour operators against cooperating with such airlines that don’t actually have any permission to operate international chartered flights. According to Kommersant, the airlines in question are Orenburg Airlines and Moscovia that are allegedly acting on behalf of a tour operator Spectrum. Earlier on, Rostourism refused to allow Orenburg Airlines, Moscovia, Vladivostok Avia, Kavmidvodyavia, and Sky Express operate chartered flights to Grenoble and Chambery. The