Ural Electrochemical Complex will make three thousand people redundant in 2011, President of Small & Medium Enterprises Union Anatoly Filippenkov announced at the union’s supervisory board meeting today. The electrochemical plant in Novouralsk will soon lay off three thousand people. This decision was made by the Moscow management. We can probably expect that a lot of them will turn to small business,’ Filippenkov said. The plant informed us of the upcoming three thousand redundancies as early as the beginning of this year. The reason for this is the restructuring of the business. For

Sverdlovsk Region Finance Ministry came up with the first figures regarding the cost of Sverdlovsk Region applying for hosting the World Universal Exhibition EXPO 2020. A candidate city has to get ready for an examination by inspection committees and prepare a detailed plan with all kinds of projects ranging from the architectural ones (a master plan of EXPO premises and the suggestions for its further use) to the transportation concept to the city’s sustainable development project for 2011-2020,’ the Ministry announced today. To elaborate such a grand application, one needs to use the

An extraordinary meeting of Sverdlovsk Region division of the All-Russian NGO Russian Red Cross took place in Yekaterinburg. The organization’s press service reports the meeting resulted in the decision to improve the performance of this regional division, for one, to switch from handling citizens’ applications twice a week to doing so five days a week. Starting August 22, 2011, every person in need of help and support can apply to Russian Red Cross at 16 Komintern St (off 718) on any weekday. One can get professional legal advice and help here, inquire about migration issues, and the

The new Chinese Consul General started work in Yekaterinburg. The first official meeting of Consul Yuan Hengge and Head of Yekaterinburg and Chairman of Yekaterinburg Municipal Duma Evgeny Porunov took place yesterday, the Duma’s press service reports. The two parties started with greetings, and Evgeny Porunov said he was sure the traditions supported by the previous consul would be kept up. The official invited the consul to take part in the City Day celebrations at the coming weekend. A group of officials headed by Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob is expected to visit

Ural Airlines keeps expanding its flights network and offers flights departing from increasingly more cities. Starting October 4, 2011, the air carrier will operate scheduled flights from Nizhniy Novgorod to Dubai, the East’s most popular city, the airline’s press service reports. The Nizhniy Novgorod-Dubai flight will be offered every Tuesday. The cheapest tickets are available for ?476, with both economy and business class tickets offered for sale.