Parts of Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin’s staff car (a Mercedes) have been sent to Germany for an examination by a board of experts, head of Investigative Department of Russia’s Investigative Committee Sverdlovsk Region Division, Colonel of Justice Valery Zadorin announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. The Governor’s automobile and accompanying cars were involved in a bad accident on Yekaterinburg-Servo freeway on December 1, 2011. The Governor’s Mercedes collided with a Volga, whose driver was killed. Misharin and his chauffer were badly injured. ‘We haven’t got

In case Yekaterinburg gets selected as the city to host the EXPO 2020 exhibition, $20bn will be allocated from the federal budget to coordinate the event, Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Investments & Development Mikhail Maksimov said in the course of the recent Investment Safari Forum in Yekaterinburg. ‘We are not quite ready to host EXPO right now, but if we do manage to prepare and to convince the arriving committees that the project is feasible, we will be trusted to organize the exhibition,’ the official said. ‘The government said: we will provide you with the resources. If you win,

Ural Airlines came up with a special offer for business class passengers traveling from Moscow to Cologne. Starting February 3, 2012, customers can buy tickets for the flight for only ?199 (one-way) or ?389 (round trip), plus fees and charges. Starting April 2, 2012, flights from Cologne to Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport will be operated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. All of Ural Airlines’ flights are operated using Airbus A320 planes with a full-scale business class section. Tickets can be booked via the air carrier’s official website www.uralairlines.com and in the booking offices.

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court accepted the claim laid by AstanaEnergoPromStroy & Co against Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station (US BAES) for processing. The plaintiff insists on being paid 73.98m RUR. This is actually not the first claim AstanaEnergoPromStroy & Co lays against US BAES. In 2010, the Kazakh company appealed to an arbitration court, hoping to make the defendant provide the plaintiff with the copies of the as-built documentation, namely, acts of work completion, signed by the director and sealed with the company seal. AstanaEnergoPromStroy & Co was involved in

One of MDM Bank’s Yekaterinburg-based offices – the outlet at 4V Chebyshev St – is now offered for sale. The office has been estimated at 266m RUR. The bank reports they are already negotiating with the potential customers. For one, the representatives of B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University have shown an interest in the purchase, and so has Yava Corporation located nearby in Generalskaya St. According to the owner’s representative’s estimates, this is not an ordinary type of real estate: a twelve-storey building was designed specifically as a bank. MDM Bank admits that the negotiations are