LUKOIL Permnefteprodukt raised the retail gasoline prices it offers at its Yekaterinburg-based filling stations by 1.1% to 1.8%, the company informed Interfax-Ural. At the moment, a liter of Normal-80 comes at 22.6 RUR (which is 0.4 RUR or 1.8% more than earlier), a liter of Regular Euro-92 costs 23.1 RUR (which is 0.4 RUR or 1.8% more than earlier), Ecto Plus 95 costs 25.5 RUR per liter (which 0.3 RUR or 1.2% more than earlier), and a liter of Super Euro 98 comes at 26.9 RUR per liter (which is 0.3 RUR or 1.1% more than earlier). These prices were introduced on April 29, 2011. The news

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant came up with a performance report for the first quarter of 2011. The enterprise’s steel pipe sales came to 488,000 tons, which is 45% better than in the first quarter of 2010. The sales of large-diameter pipes rose by 94%, OCTG sales went up by 26%, and the industrial pipe sales increased by 33%. We launched a new, hi tech LDP department called Vysota 239 last year. This March, the department reached its full production capacity and manufactured 52,000 tons of goods. I am very proud of our plant team that managed so rapidly to complete the project as well as

Avianova Airlines and Surgut Airport cannot seem to agree on the time slots, which results in the company being unable to operate its flights from Krasnodar to Surgut since April 30, 2011, Avianova told RIA Novosti. Over 4,000 tickets have already been sold for these flights. The airport and the air carrier reached an agreement on operating the flights from Surgut to Krasnodar on March 11, 2011. but Avianova still hasn’t received any slot confirmation, the airline explained. To the best of the company’s knowledge, the time slots it is asking for are available.

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service took legal action against METRO Cash & Carry; the company is suspected of violating Article 13 (part 1, paragraph 1) of the Federal Act on the Regulation of Trade by the State in the Russian Federation. It is believed that METRO Cash & Carry has been discriminating against its foods suppliers. The FAS feels the discrimination consists in the company making the prices dependent on the foods supply turnover volume. Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service also believes the law is violated in that METRO charges all its suppliers of one and the same

Ural Airlines keeps renovating its fleet of vehicles. On April 29, 2011, a new 220-seat Airbus A321 landed in Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg. The seats are actually made of genuine leather, the company’s press officer reports. This means Ural Airlines now own seventeen Airbus planes, that is, a dozen A320 ones an five A321 ones. Like the two A321 aircraft the company has bought earlier this year, the new plane was acquired on leasing terms and used to belong to an Irish airline before. Ural Airlines need ever more planes, which is why renovating its fleet of vehicles is essential to the