Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark in Russia Tom Risdahl Jensen informed Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin that a group of Danish delegates were planning to take part in Innoprom 2012. According to the Ambassador, the decision was taken thanks to the positive outcome of the Russian-Danish meetings that were held in Yekaterinburg in mid-March. The official also thanked the region’s Ministry for International and Foreign Economic Development for the organization of negotiations crucial to the Danish companies and of visits to the Urals-based

Yekaterinburg police officers are looking into the activity of Autolime motor show’s director. It is suspected that Ilnar E. (33), who dealt in the sales of used cars, disappeared out of sight with his customers’ money, the press office for Yekaterinburg Department of Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry Main Administration told the reporters. In fact, these were Autolime’s employees who informed Police Department 9 on Thursday, March 22, that their director had been out of reach for a few days already. They said the director, Ilnar E., resided in Ufa, the Republic

According to Auto-Dealer-Yekaterinburg, 12,254 new automobiles were sold in Yekaterinburg in January and February 2012, which is 35%, or 3,054 cars more than in the two months of 2011. 7,029 cars were sold in the city in February alone, which was 39%, or 1,961 cars more than a year earlier. Lada is still by far the best-selling make on Yekaterinburg market. At the same time, the share of the Russian brand on the local market is going down: it used to come to 17% at the end of 2011 but amounted to only 14.6% at the end of February 2012. Significant changes can be observed among the top five

A direct air link has been introduced between Nizhniy Novgorod and Prague: Ural Airlines has launched a new scheduled flight. All of these flights will be operated using a modern and comfortable A 320 plane. Tickets are available for ?230. The flight will be operated every Saturday. Thanks to the convenient timetable, all those willing to travel from Prague to any other destination in Europe can do so: an interline agreement between Ural Airlines and the national Czech air carrier Czech Airlines allows for a one-time check-in which means a passenger gets a single ticket and can check in his

In order to meet its customers’ needs, RosTransAvto is now offering them the services relating to the delivery and renting of tower cranes. ‘Customers can both buy or rent our MITSUBER tower cranes as well as order the assembling and dismantling of the machinery we supply,’ RosTransAvto reports. Among the strong points of MITSUBER building tower cranes is the electronic and electric equipment manufactured by the French concern Shneider Electric; what is more, the cranes are fully adjusted for operation in Russia and the CIS member states at temperatures ranging from -40 to +40 degrees