About 12,000 Sverdlovsk Region residents were not allowed to go abroad in the eight months of 2011. 2,000 of them had about 1.5m RUR worth of unpaid alimony, while the rest had unpaid loans, unpaid road accidents fines and so on,’ says deputy head of Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Court Officers Service Albina Sukhorukova.

It has recently been reported that the police officers allegedly engaged in some illegitimate activities during their raids and searches at Yekaterinburg-based Tagansky Ryad market; besides, a number of entrepreneurs with businesses based in this market placed their complaints with the regional public prosecution authorities. Therefore Sverdlovsk Region’s Public Prosecutor Yuri Ponomarev ordered that an investigation of the legitimacy of the police officers’ actions be conducted. An ad hoc committee was set up of prosecution officials and officers from Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service made Yves Rocher Vostok pay a 100,000-ruble fine for violating the advertising law, the FAS’s press service reports. The Service’s committee declared earlier that the cosmetics and perfumes ad by Yves Rocher was inappropriate because the advertisement drew unfavorable comparisons with the competitors’ products and offered inaccurate data on the natural origin of Yves Rocher cosmetics. Now content-related cosmetics and perfumes ads by Yves Rocher could be seen online, in Yandex and Google search engines in November and December 2010. The perfumes and

Starting October 5, 2011, Ural Airlines will operate direct scheduled flights from Chelyabinsk Airport to three international destinations: Vienna, Dubai, and Harbin, Ural Airlines’ press officer reports. The airline was chosen by Chelyabinsk Region Government and the management of Chelyabinsk Airport as their main international carrier. Ural Airlines has a long-standing reputation on the international market; the airline holds an IOSA security standards compliance certificate and is a member of IATA Clearing Chamber as well as of MITA, the multilateral interline agreement. The air carrier is