UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2011. Ural Airlines, one of Russia’s top six largest air carriers in terms of passenger turnover, and Cologne Airport are launching a new direct flight from Cologne to Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. Flights will be operated from Cologne every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; starting June, flights will be available five times a week. All of these will be operated using the comfortable Airbus A320 planes with fully equipped business class and economy class sections. The cheapest tickets are available for ?80 for economy class and ?350 for business class (one way).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 12, 2011. Ural Airlines came up with a performance report for the eleven months of 2011. Most of the air carrier’s performance figures went up impressively in comparison with a year earlier. In November 2011, the airline operated a total of 1,680 flights, which was 32% better than last November. This figure included 593 international flights, 704 domestic flights, and 387 flights around the CIS. The number of passengers who used Ural Airlines in November 2011 came to an impressive figure of 198,370, which was 72% more than in November 2010. The actual passenger

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 12, 2011. Heads of an NGO EXPO 2020 Application Committee are coming to Yekaterinburg this week. The important issues on their agenda are defining the permanent members of a working team that will promote Yekaterinburg as a candidate for hosting the Global Universal Exhibition Expo 2020 and determining the ways in which Russia’s Industry & Science Ministry, Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region authorities, and the Committee will work together. Now the final decision on where the exhibition will be held is to be taken through voting at the Bureau International

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 12, 2011. Russian Copper Company is going to install a crusher produced by Metso Minerals at the 220-meter mine level at its Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Plant. According to the company’s press service, the primary crusher has the capacity of processing 4,000 tons of ore an hour and will be installed directly at the open mine that is currently under construction at Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Plant. The use of a crusher which is so highly productive and which delivers the ore onto the main belt and then directly onto the processing plant

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 12, 2011. Academic District of Yekaterinburg was recently declared the best real estate among the city’s newly built objects by most of the people present at the business function dedicated to next year’s strategies on Yekaterinburg’s real estate market. The function was held in Yekaterinburg. The success of Academic District lies not only in the unparalleled scale of the project but also in the developer’s determination to make the district’s architecture both expressive and original. In the meantime, France, Israel, Italy, Russia, and the United States’ leading