UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2012. The Russian National Association of Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR) announced the results of the regional stage of its Stock Market Elite 2011 contest. The nominees were selected by the jury on the basis of two main criteria: the company’s bond market turnover and the amount of bond investments. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Financial Institutions & Investment Services Director Vladimir Zotov was given the diploma of the contest’s laureate by head of Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division

UrBC, Moscow, April 23, 2012. Moscow Arbitration Court declared OOO Avianova Aviation Company bankrupt (streamlined proceedings were applied) and ruled that the company must undergo bankruptcy proceedings for six months, the Russian Agency for Legal & Court Information (RAPSI) reports. The court appointed Dmitri Scherban the company’s trustee in bankruptcy. A representatives of OOO Averon (the enterprise that placed the insolvency claim with the court) reported that Avianova never paid them the 2.34m RUR it owed them.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2012. Ural Airlines is offering the Great Patriotic War veterans and disabled an opportunity to fly with one of the company’s scheduled flights to hero cities Moscow and Saint Petersburg and back – free of charge. The offer is valid between May 3 and May 13, 2012. ‘Helping our veterans to visit memorable places and to see their wartime friends and relatives on the day of this country’s most touching holiday is an honorable mission that the company keeps accomplishing for the seventh year in a row. Ural Airlines understands that such flights are special, and pays

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2012. The office of Perfect World Travel Company at 11 Pervomayskaya St in Yekaterinburg is now occupied by other tenants, while the phone number given at the company’s website now belongs to a different business, the new tenants told UrBC. Now seventy travelers coordinated by the Russian tour operator Perfect World were unable to fly to Israel from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport on Sunday. At the airport, the holiday-makers were told that their tickets had not been paid for. Another group of Perfect World’s tourists (between 70 and 90 people) were supposed to have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 20, 2012. Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Vladimir Vlasov held a work meeting with the members of the interdepartmental committee on the use of foreign workers in the region. The meeting participants discussed the current labor market trends and the possibility of adjusting the quotas for this year. Deputy head of Sverdlovsk Region Division of the Federal Migration Service and head of the Immigration Control Department Yuri Bezborodov explained this year’s foreign workers quotas came to 27,930 people, with 6,050 work permits issued by April 19. This figure