Ural Airlines is launching a ticket sale on flights from Yekaterinburg to Europe and Israel in winter 2011/12, the company’s press service reports. The cheapest round trip tickets to Prague, Rome, Barcelona, Munich, and Tel Aviv are now available for ?299 (plus the fees). Tickets can be booked between October 1 and November 15, with flights scheduled for the period of November 15 - December 18, 2011 or January 16 - February 29, 2012. The special price flights will be operated using A320 airbuses in accordance with the following timetable: Yekaterinburg-Prague: Thursdays and Sundays;

Vladimir Yakhlakov won in the tender for the position of head of Gas Networks Sverdlovsk Region State Unitary Enterprise. Vladimir Yakhlakov is a former co-owner of Ural Civil Aviation Plant; following the sale of the said enterprise, he was reported to have left Russia and to have resided in the United Arab Emirates for a while.

OOO Avto-Plus was declared a dishonest supplier; the decision to this extent was made by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service. The decision is reported to have been caused by the fact that Avto-Plus won in the tender for a contract with Sverdlovsk Region Military Commissariat but later backed out of signing the agreement. The contract was related to transfer of newly drafted citizens and was worth 35,000 RUR.

Yekaterinburg Oktyabrsky District Court ruled in favor of a local citizen who got injured during her stay in India. The court ruled that over 80,000 RUR must be paid by Ergo-Rus Insurance Company that originally refused to pay for their client’s medical expenses occasioned by an accident, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Yulia Filippova went on holiday to India this February. On February 16, the traveler and her friend were hit by a bus. The woman was seriously injured: her shin-bones were broken; she also got several concussions and wounds on her face, arms, and legs. The injured was taken to

Yekaterinburg subsidiary of one of Russia’s largest insurance companies signed an insurance agreement with Sverdlovsk State Academic Philharmonic. Under the terms of the agreement, the insurer’s services will cover a violin made by the Italian professional Pietro Guarneri in 1968 for a period of three years. The instrument was insured against catching fire (including the cases when this might happen due to a domestic gas explosion), accidental submersion, and third-party offenses. The agreement also provides for compensation of expenses related to examination by a body of experts aimed at