Flights keep getting delayed at Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport. About fifteen flights will arrive in Yekaterinburg late today. For one, four Nordavia-Regional Airlines flights from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport (733, 734, 743, and 744) are already four hours late. Aeroflot’s Moscow flights are also delayed. Flights 2095 and 2053 from Sheremetyevo have been delayed due to technical problems. This means that flights 2096 and 2054 from Koltsovo (Yekaterinburg) to Sheremetyevo (Moscow) have been delayed as well. Transaero flight 119 Moscow-Yekaterinburg has been delayed by eighteen hours.

The cost of building a high-speed railway connecting Yekaterinburg and Moscow might rise to 3.5 trillion RUR, head of Sverdlovsk Region Railways Vladimir Suprun announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘High-Speed Railways, one of Sverdlovsk Region Railways’ daughter enterprises is currently working on this project. Under this project, the railway is supposed to be designed and built with the company’s own funds and will be operated until it pays off, with some federal budget support,’ Suprun said. ‘An ad hoc work team was set up only today, so everything is at its preliminary stage

Russian Railways Public Company can only provide 30% of the total cost of building a high-speed railway between Yekaterinburg and Nizhniy Tagil and only 3% of the total cost of building a Yekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk Railway to make sure they can break even, head of Sverdlovsk Region Railways Vladimir Suprun announced at the end-of-year press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘Our final aim is to make sure trains can go at 160 kilometers an hour, which will mean that one can get to Chelyabinsk in three hours and to Nizhniy Tagil in 1.5 hours. It has been preliminarily estimated that putting up

OAO Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) and Rosnano State Corporation launched a joint venture in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Region. The new company will deal in precision stainless pipes manufacturing. The launching ceremony was attended by Rosnano’s top executive Anatoly Chubais, RIA Novosti reports. The project will require a total of 3.7 billion RUR worth of investments, with 1.3 billion RUR to be contributed by Rosnano. TMK now owns 51% of the company’s shares; Rosnano has a 49% shareholding in the business.

Dexter Airlines has canceled its flights to and from Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg yet again. For one, flight 9628 from Kurgan to Yekaterinburg was called off. The flight was originally supposed to have arrived at 3:55 PM. What is more, flights from Tyumen and Magnitogorsk, which were to have arrived in Yekaterinburg at 12:00 PM and 4:20 AM today, respectively, were also canceled. The company has already called off some flights a few days earlier. Koltsovo Airport announced on Friday that the flights had been canceled due to technical problems. The airline refuses to provide any comments