The amount of goods produced by Sverdlovsk Region’s defense industry will be nearly 30% greater in 2012 than in 2011, the region’s Industry & Science Minister Vladislav Pinayev says. The share of military and special-purpose products comes to about 50% of all the goods produced in the defense sector. The government orders also rose by nearly two times against last year, the region’s Press Service Administration reports.

On September 12, an illegitimately built multi-storey apartment building was pulled down in Yekaterinburg. The city council and Ordzhonikidzevsky Department of Court Bailiffs supervised the dismantling jobs at 115 Botkinskaya St. Earlier on, the pull-down jobs were stopped after Yekaterinburg Ordzhonikidzevsky District court ruled on April 27, 2011 that the implementation of its decrees could be postponed. The building was pulled down following the decision of Ordzhonikidzevsky District court on the claim laid by Yekaterinburg Municipal Council and Ordzhonikidzevsky District public

Sverdlovsk Region Government Prime Minister Denis Pasler held a work meeting with head of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development for Ural Federal District and Perm Territory Evgeny Ofrikhter. The parties looked into the issues related to cooperating in the field of infrastructure and industrial investment projects, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service Administration reports. Ofrikhter presented the EBRD’s options for supporting the investment projects in the region to the Prime Minister. He pointed out that the EBRD was operating in all the sectors of industry

Ural Airlines looked into its performance results in August 2012. The company flew 427,612 passengers last month, which is 31% more than in August 2011. All in all, 2,335,489 passengers have used the airline’s services since the start of the year. On August 14, Ural Airlines checked in its 2,000,000th passenger, the airline’s press service reports. In August 2012, Ural Airlines operated 2,736 flights (23% more than in August 2011). This included 1,287 international flights, 944 domestic flights, and 505 flights around the CIS. The actual passenger turnover came to 1,127,971,000

Yekaterinburg is totally ready to host the world football championship of 2018. Russia’s Sports Minister and Chairman of Russia 2018 Coordination Committee Vitaly Mutko named five cities that are prepared to host this large-scale sports event, the Governor’s PR Department reports. According to the minister, all of the thirteen candidate cities on the application list can be divided into three groups. The first group comprises cities that are fully prepared to host the World Cup 2018. These are: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, and Yekaterinburg. The second group comprises the cities