Ural Airlines’ performance indicators improved greatly in January-April 2011. The company operated 5,496 flights over the given period (which was 39% better than in January-April 2010), including 1,145 international flights (which, considering the chartered flights, was 39% better than a year earlier), 3, 156 domestic flights (against 2,324 flights in January-April 2020), and 1,195 flights around the Commonwealth of Independent States (compared with 817 flights in January-April 2010), the company’s press service reports. The company flew 503,693 people in the four months of 2011, which

All the necessary procedures relating to the transfer of Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport’s shares to Sverdlovsk Region have by now been completed, the Public Property Management Ministry’s press service reports. All in all, Sverdlovsk Region now owns a golden shareholding of 34.56% in Koltsovo Airport.

The amount of ferrous and non-ferrous shipments Russian Railways Public Company handled in April 2011 went down by 2.3% and 1.3%, respectively, the online portal RZhD-Partner reports. Russia’s cargo index (which refers to the volume of railway shipments around the country) came to 104.8% in absolute terms in April 2011; this was 1.8% less than a month earlier. Last month, the shipments of only three out of nine cargo types that the cargo index covers were actually greater than in April 2010. The decrease is also noticeable in the maim cargo types in the mining and metallurgical sector: the

A meeting was held in Cherkessk on the construction of an all-seasons mountain ski resort Arkhyz there. The meeting was attended by Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in North Caucasian Federal District Maxim Bystrov and head of Karachayevo-Cherkess Republic Rashid Temrezov. The head of Russia’s Regional Development Ministry’s Interregional Department in North Caucasian Federal District Alexei Ivanov, First Deputy Head of Karachayevo-Cherkess Government Ruslan Tambiyev, the Managing Director of North Caucasian Development Corporation Timur Charto, Vice

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court ruled that founder of Omega Group Holding Oleg Fleganov should undergo bankruptcy proceedings. The businessman agreed to the necessity of declaring himself insolvent,’ the court’s press officer informed UrBC. The application asking to declare Mr. Fleganov bankrupt was placed with the court by Yekaterinburg Oktyabrsky District’s division of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation on April 15, 2011. The applicant suggested that Vadim Permikin of Razvitiye Self-Regulatory Organization of Trustees in Bankruptcy should be chosen as the trustee in