June 5, 2013. 1,200 employees from 12 member enterprises of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the 71st track-and-field relay race, with prizes awarded by the company newspaper Machinostroitel. The corporation’s press service reports that all the participants were divided in 104 teams and ran 2,775 meters. In addition to the corporation employees, a number of amateur sports players from the Security Department and Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Firefighting Service that liaise with Uralvagonzavod took part in the race as well. This year, the race was

June 5, 2013. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob and Italy’s Honorary Consul in Yekaterinburg Roberto D’Agostino talked about the city’s socioeconomic and historic development today, the council’s press service reports. Yakob spoke in the course of this meeting about a number of international-scale events that Yekaterinburg is going to host in the nearest future, and about the efforts the city is making to develop in order to host these events on a grand scale. At the end of the meeting, Yakob gave his guest a souvenir book and a number of electronic devices with plentiful

June 5, 2013. A reporter employed with the Hong Kong newspaper Wen Hui Bao presented his impressions from visiting Yekaterinburg at the invitation of the World Universal Exhibition EXPO 2020 Application Committee on the pages of the newspaper. He says Yekaterinburg proved to be ‘an industrial center full of life and energy’ whose splendour is available for everyone to see. ‘Unlike Moscow, where all the streets and roads run from the center like the sunrays, Yekaterinburg has a very organized layout: all the streets and buildings are oriented in the cardinal directions,’ Yekaterinburg

June 5, 2013. RSG International Limited (the head company of KORTROS Group, known as Renova-StroyGroup prior to a re-branding campaign) was given the AA- credit rating, National Rating Agency reports. On April 5, 2012, the Agency assigned a rating to Renova-StroyGroup for the first time. Now the rating is given to a legal entity as such, that is, to the Group’s head company RSG International Limited. KORTROS Group is now Russia’s 5th largest developer in terms of the amount of housing commissioned in 2012. The Group coordinates some unique projects that are known as the multi-faceted area

June 5, 2013. The 31st Russia-EU Summit was officially closed in Yekaterinburg. The spokesperson for the Kremlin reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, and Chairman of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso talked about the pressing issues relating to the two parties’ trade and economic and humanitarian cooperation and about the ways of improving the contractual legal framework of these relations. Special attention was paid to working on a new framework agreement between Russia and the EU that will take into account the