The construction jobs on the Radisson Hotel construction site will start in six months, and the building will be commissioned in 2013,’AtomStroyComplex’s Director-General Valery Ananyev said at a recent press conference in Yekaterinburg. The construction of a high-rise Radisson SAS Hotel is expected to start in Yekaterinburg at the intersection of Malyshev St and Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The construction company reported earlier that the building and assembly jobs would only begin in the summer of 2011, but nothing has started as of yet. We’ve been faced with a number of problems. First, the land

Member of Russia’s Soviet of the Federation Arkady Chernetsky welcomed the Russian authorities’ decision to propose Yekaterinburg as one of the potential hosts of the World EXPO 2020 Exhibition and promised to do his best to make sure the exhibition does take place in Yekaterinburg and meets the highest quality standards. This is a very significant occasion for the city, as Yekaterinburg will be able to reach absolutely new heights after 2020, the city will become quite a different thing in terms of comfort, it will also turn into a new international hub, which will be a truly life-changing

Russia runs quite good chances of hosting the international exhibition EXPO 2020, feels Chairman of Sverdlovsk Region Government Anatoly Gredin. Now Russian President Dmitri Medvedev decided that Yekaterinburg should be chosen among the Russian cities that proposed as candidates for hosting the event in 2020. If this happens, Yekaterinburg will look totally different in 2020. It will become an international city,’ Gredin said.

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin offered his comments on Russia’s official decision to take part in the competition for hosting the world exhibition EXPO 2020 and on Yekaterinburg being chosen as the potential host city. This is extremely important for the region, this decision has a lot of work behind it, a year’s work of a team; it also stems from the fact that the city is developing very rapidly, and so is its infrastructure (hotels, roads, and communications). This choice is an assessment of our business community’s efforts and an indicator of how Yekaterinburg itself is

Tax reliefs stimulate consumption, whereas it would be better for Sverdlovsk Region Duma to stimulate investment. The idea that a tax relief would give enterprises a chance to reproduce its funds more rapidly sounds dubious,’ Blagodat Securities Investment Company’s Director-General Vsevolod Chaschin told UrBC. Now the energy sector enterprises based in Yekaterinburg might be offered tax reliefs. This will involve Enel OGK-5, OGK-1, OGK-2, and TGK-9. The initiative was proposed by Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Taxpayers Petitions Committee. I believe the initiative results from the terrible