February 18, 2013. Ural Airlines is launching a new scheduled flight from Moscow to Bishkek. The flight will be operated every Saturday starting February 23. The timetable has been designed in the most convenient way possible: the planes leave Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport at 10 AM and arrive in Bishkek at 4:05 PM; the return flight’s departure time is 5:05 PM, arrival time is 7:40PM; the flight lasts four and a half hours. The flight will be operated on the modern European concern Airbus’s aircraft, the airline’s press officer reports. Now Ural Airlines also offers scheduled flights bound for

February 18, 2013. The military vehicles manufactured by Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation arrived in the United Arab Emirates for IDEZ, the international defense exhibition. The features and potential of Terminator, the fire support combat vehicle, and of the upgraded T-90C painted a new color, as well as of some life-size samples and models from Uralvagonzavod’s special vehicles division will be displayed in Abu Dhabi on February 17-21, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service says. Uralvagonzavod is a regular participant at the prestigious

February 18, 2013. In 2012, 159bn RUR, or 72% of Sverdlovsk Region’s tax revenues, were paid by the enterprises involved in the basic economic activities (processing enterprises, retail and wholesale traders, the transportation industry, the real estate sector, and the electricity, natural gas, and water production and distribution segment), Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service reports. The processing enterprises paid 62bn RUR, thus providing 28% of all the tax revenues. The retail and wholesale trading businesses as well as the car mechanics and white goods repairing

February 18, 2013. A draft bill on doing away with the notion of roaming within Russia was considered at the State Duma’s Information Policies, IT, & Communications Committee on February 14. The mobile carriers do not think it impossible that, should the bill be adopted, the mobile communication rates might go up. The changes in the Communications Act are supposed to get rid of the payments charged for roaming within Russia. The carriers are expected to process the outside subscribers’ traffic through their own network, which will reduce the price of a phone call. Deputy Communications

February 18, 2013. Players from Sputnik hockey team (sponsored by Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) paid a visit to an orphanage in the village of Yuzhakovo. This was part of the team’s charity event dubbed Soft Hockey. In January, Sputnik appealed to its supporters, asking them to bring some soft toys to the match and throw them onto the ice after the game finishes. The supporters were quick and enthusiastic to react, so an incredible amount of stuffed animals was donated. The first small batch was given to a kindergarten that the junior varsity team supports. Now, five