Ural Airlines came up with a performance report for March 2012. In this month, the air carrier flew 214,240 passengers, which is 67% more than in March 2011. All in all, 583,780 passengers have used this carrier since the beginning of the year, the airline’s press service reports. In March 2012, Ural Airlines operated 1,840 flights (a 43% increase against a year earlier), including 652 international flights, 755 domestic flights, and 442 flights around the CIS. The actual passenger turnover came to 589,700 passenger-kilometers in March 2012, which was 83% better than in March 2011.

Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant’s Board of Directors suggested that the plant’s shareholders accept the offer to purchase the company’s shares made to them by Renova Group. Now Renova Group of Companies intends to consolidate a 100% shareholding in Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant. Renova currently owns a 71.294% stake in the plant. The suggested price for buying the shares has been set at 800 RUR apiece.

In late March and early April, RosTransAvto (RTA) welcomed customers to its new offices in two leading economic centers of the Urals and the Volga Region at once, that is, in Tyumen and Perm, the company reports. According to the BOD Chairman of the company (dealing in Mitsuber, Howo, and Sanko Makina machinery) Anna Gorodenker, the newly opened subsidiaries will offer their customers a full range of delivery services relating to the entire spectrum of products by Mitsuber, Howo, and Sanko Makina; they will also handle pre-delivery inspections and offer warranty and post-warranty services.

‘The application committee gathers data and monitors the state of Yekaterinburg’s infrastructure on a regular basis in order to prepare a candidate city’s profile. We use the official data obtained from the publicly open sources and provided by the municipal and the regional authorities,’ EXPO 2020 Application Committee’s Deputy Director-General Alexander Vyakhirev told UrBC. ‘The city’s readiness to host EXPO 2020 is evaluated on the basis of quite a few criteria, including not only the state of the infrastructure but also some other socio-economic indicators and the data on education,

The Metro-Party that Philip Morris Sales & Marketing had planned to hold in Yekaterinburg underground is not going to take place after all. Philip Morris Sales & Marketing confirms that it had meant to have a selective-entry event for adult smokers at Dynamo underground station in Yekaterinburg on April 12, 2012. ‘We have many years’ experience of organizing parties for adult tobacco consumers; these are always held in strict accordance with the rules for coordinating mass-scale events, and all the necessary permissions from the authorities in each particular city are always obtained.