Rosaviation halted Avianova’s aircraft operator license, the agency’s head Alexander Neradko told RIA Novosti. The low-cost airline stopped selling any tickets on October 2, 2011, and stopped operating altogether on October 10. Avianova’s acting Director-General Konstantin Teterin said earlier that the airline would apply to Rosaviation for having its aircraft operator license halted, but not annulled.

The Japanese Corporation announced it was going to call off 1.6m LCD Bravia TV sets after customers started taking them back to the store for repairs; the general complaint was that ‘the TV sets are smoldering’. According to Reuters, this ‘special effect’ has to do with the fact that some parts of the TV sets happen to melt, producing smoke and an unpleasant smell. The TV sets will be called off all over the world, the agency says.

Ural Airlines gave up on the idea of purchasing medium-distance planes and is only going to buy long-haul aircraft in the future, the company’s Director-General Sergey Skuratov told reporters in the course of the recent Russia-EU summit. We gave up on buying those [medium-distance planes. – Editors’ note.],’ he said, explaining that the airline was initially planning on buying medium-distance ATR 42 planes. Starting 2013, we intend to buy long-haul aircraft,’ RIA Novosti quotes Skuratov as saying. The executive said that the company was to increase its A320 fleet of vehicles up to

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service took criminal action against the telecommunications providers MTS and Vympelcom, accusing the two companies of a price collusion related to their sales of iPhones. Now Apple reports that its wholesale prices have not changed, nor has the company offered any advice on the price of smartphones in Russia or controlled the pricing policy of either Vympelcom or MTS. Nevertheless, most points of sale offered these mobile phones at identical prices everywhere. The FAS believes this stems from the fact that the two importers secretly agreed on giving up

Yekaterinburg police and customs officers stopped the sales of counterfeit mobile phones in the city. The damage done to Nokia Corporation’s intellectual property is estimated at over 66m RUR, Ural Customs Administration’s press service reports. Now the officers inspected one of the sales outlets in a Yekaterinburg-based well-known shopping mall, confiscating 153 Vertu Ferrari A-00258 Special Edition phones, 81 Vertu Ferrari A-000369 Limited Edition phones, and 9 Vertu Boucheron phones. The files of the conducted inspection contain the proof of the sales being illegitimate and the data on the