Once an international Architects’ Board has been set up in Academic District of Yekaterinburg, the entire city’s appeal will become much stronger. Our city has a few schools of architectural thought, which is a very good thing. However, attracting some foreign experts will definitely add some color to the city’s architecture,’ Alexander Kosintsev, who has a PhD in Economics and is a Professor at Ural State University of Economics, told UrBC. For now, an Architects’ District Council has been set up in Academic District that has well-reputed Russian and foreign architects on the board. ‘If

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the Russian residents’ demand for the U.S. dollars rose by nearly two times in October compared with September 2011. Russians bought over $1bn worth of the U.S. dollars altogether, while the net demand for the euro decreased by over two and a half times, RIA Novosti refers to the Central Bank’s report as stating. This means that the demand for the euro came to $200m in October 2011, Bank Koltso Urala reports. Experts point out that this trend has been brought about by the instability in the Eurozone: the trust in the euro has been undermined, while the

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) Board of Directors is to consider the company’s strategic development program for 2012-2016 in the course of a meeting that is expected to take place on December 14, 2011. The agenda of the meeting also covers issues related to the development of the company’s main strategic projects, the company’s annual consolidated budget for the year 2012, and the BOD action plan for the next year.

Ural Airlines will keep on transferring passengers from the military sector in 2012. The company was placed on the list of Russia’s five largest air carriers that were approved by the Defense Ministry to transfer the military, the airline’s press office reports. ‘The fact that the airline was placed on the MoD’s list proves the great quality of the services rendered by the company as well as the airline’s reliability and safety,’ the office says.

The United Nations Organization stopped cooperating with two Russian airlines on the ground that some of the companies’ employees are suspected to be involved in legal offenses of sexual nature, Reuter reports. An anonymous representative of the United Nations Department of Peace-Keeping Operations (DPKO) said to reporters off the record that the offense in question was really grave, but no further explanations were given. The DPKO representative Kieran Dwyer did confirm that the charges involved a few employees of UTair Airlines and Nefteyugansk United Airline Transportation Company that