February 8, 2013. MegaFon increased its Radar service’s potential by offering its subscribers web interface access to the service. The location of a MegaFon subscriber that one is interested in can now be traced not only via a mobile app or an MMS but also via a special website, the company’s press service reports. Radar is an easy way to find out about the location of your children, friends, parents or loved ones without having to bother them with untimely phone calls. Thanks to the service’s new options, tracking the location and movements of the nearest and dearest is getting ever more

February 8, 2013. Yekaterinburg had 570 sq m worth of office space per 1,000 residents at the end of last year (these data are valid for Class A and B office buildings). In this respect, Yekaterinburg is a little ahead of Saint Petersburg, where there is 530 sq m worth of office space per 1,000 residents, but is still quite behind Moscow, where there is 1,200 sq m worth of office space per 1,000 residents, Ural-Germes reports. According to this consulting company’s Director-General Alexander Zasukhin, this mostly has to do with the raw materials-oriented nature of the Russian economy. ‘In

February 8, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region Government and the regional towns’ mayors are to present their proposals on locating an industrial park in Severny Administrative District in addition to creating a similar site in Krasnoturinsk. This is what Governor Evgeny Kuivashev asked the officials for at an offsite meeting of the regional government’s presidium in Severouralsk, Governor’s Information Policies Department reports. Now on Monday, the Governor held a meeting dedicated to creating industrial parks in the region, and as a result, the region’s Government and the Mid-Urals Development

February 8, 2013. 130m RUR will be allocated from Yekaterinburg budget to buy new tramways in 2014, the official city portal states. The new trams will be purchased in preparation for the World Cup 2018. Renovating the fleet of local trams is expected to take several years. It has not been decided yet just what the technical specifications and the price of the trams should be. Yekaterinburg actually used to get only 3 to 4 new trams a year. All in all, the city has got 243 new buses, 20 trams, 18 trolley-buses, and 8 new underground carriages in the last six years.

February 8, 2013. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev said at a meeting with the employees of Sevuralboksitruda on February 6 that the regional authorities intended to give all kinds of support to the creation of a developed social sphere in Severouralsk, the Governor’s Information Policies Department reports. The Governor pointed out that the town’s primary enterprise’s long-term development plans mean both the local industry and the region’s aluminum sector in general can be quite confident about their future. The company is currently implementing a project that is unique to