The BRIC countries have to be taken off the list of investment goals: the time for this group’s intensive growth is now over, Goldman Sachs warns. BRIC will come to be replaced by a set of eleven most densely populated developing countries, Gazeta.Ru reports. ‘We have witnessed the peak in BRIC’s growth. Over the last decade, the mere idea of BRIC has been enough to attract investments. It is much more difficult now to believe that just having the faith in their future growth is enough to get these investments,’ says Goldman Sachs economist Dominic Wilson in his review on the BRIC countries

Workers of Tyumen Customs and officers of Tyumen Region division of the Internal Affairs Department have confiscated over 4,600 units of counterfeit goods since the beginning of 2011, the spokesperson for Ural Customs Administration reports. Now throughout the year, the customs and the police officers coordinated weekly joint searches aimed at finding counterfeit products on the territory of Tyumen Region in Ishim, Tobolsk, and Tyumen. Among the confiscated goods were fake Adidas, Reebok, Sochi 2014, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel items as well as toys such as Bakugan and Moxie girls and DVDs.

UTair Airlines’ Boeing flying from Novosibirsk to Moscow had to perform an emergency landing at Roschino Airport in Tyumen. ‘The plane performed an emergency landing because of a flight attendant who was not feeling well,’ Tyumen Public Prosecution Authorities for Transportation’s Chief Assistant Natalya Bondarenko told Interfax-Ural on Wednesday. There were 126 passengers and six crew members on board the plane; no one was hurt. This is actually not the first time UTair’s airplanes get involved in the incidents of such sort: in the fall, the air carrier’s planes had to perform a whole series

The hotel chain that currently runs three hotels in Russia (Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya, Hilton Garden Inn Perm, and DoubleTree by Hilton Novosibirsk) and the Hilton Baku Hotel in Azerbaijan signed four new agreements and a multi-project deal on the development of the chain on the Russian market. Russia will get twenty-four Hilton Worldwide hotels altogether; Yekaterinburg was not on the list, Hoteldeluxes.com refers to the company’s press office as saying. Most of these prospective hotels will be put up in Moscow: Hilton Garden Inn Moscow New Riga, DoubleTree by Hilton Moscow Leningradsky

The international rating agency Standard & Poor’s credit rating service promoted Sverdlovsk Region’s long-term rating from BB to BB+, with Stable rating outlook. ‘The rating was promoted due to the region’s financial performance indicators, which proved above our expectations and were caused by the increased budget revenues and some well-balanced control of the expenditure,’ the agency reports. The region’s solvency is also supported by its small debts, high liquidity indicators, and moderate financial performance indicators. ‘The Stable rating outlook indicates that we believe Sverdlovsk