Starting April 17, Ural Airlines is offering a flight to a new destination: from Saint Petersburg to Yerevan and back. The flights will be operated every Tuesday using a comfortable A 321. The cheapest tickets are available for ?155 (one-way, excluding the fees). These can already be booked via the company’s website www.uralairlines.com and in the booking offices, the airline’s press service reports. Ural Airlines also operates flights to the Armenian capital that depart from Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, and Samara. These flights are operated on Thursdays, Tuesdays, and Mondays,

Svyatogor has been placed on the list of companies owing more than 1m RUR to the Russian Federation’s budget. This information (good as of March 15, 2012) was provided by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration court started looking into the clash between Uralmedstroy and Castorama RUS. This happened on the eve of Castorama’s opening in Yekaterinburg. The hypermarket in Shefskaya St, whose area comes to more than 10,000 sq m, is to start operating on April 21, 2012. According to the files of the case, the developer insists on being paid 5.16m RUR by Castorama RUS. The preliminary court hearing has been set for May 4, 2012.

Starting April 13, 2012, Belavia Airlines will no longer be operating flights to Yekaterinburg. This ban (involving a number of other Russian cities as well) was imposed by Rosaviation, Kommersant reports. The ultimatum delivered by Byelorussia to Russian air carriers resulted in yet another conflict escalation in the field of air travel. In response to Byelorussia threatening to limit the number of flights Russian airlines can operate from Moscow to Minsk, Russia’s Transport Ministry informed Byelorussia that, starting April 13, Belavia will also be unable to operate flights from Minsk to

DVI Ural has been placed on the list of companies owing more than 1m RUR to the Russian Federation’s budget. This information (good as of March 15, 2012) was provided by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.