June 10, 2013. Visitors to Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant’s stand at Russia’s leading road construction vehicles exhibition STT-2013 were invited to see a film on the vehicles produced by the plant that starred in feature films, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The film was made by the crew of Uralvagonzavod Corporation on the basis of a script written by the plant newspaper’s reporters. The collection of bits where the company vehicles are ‘co-starring’ with actors was originally presented in a newspaper version. The script writers found about 40 Russian and foreign motion

June 10, 2013. Yekaterinburg will have nice climate conditions to offer during the EXPO 2020 compared to other candidate cities. Its temperate climate minimizes health risks as well as problems arising from large crowds of people gathering together on hot days, the city’s official web portal says. In the summer, the temperature range in Yekaterinburg varies between 17 and 22 degrees centigrade; in the fall, its between 5.5 and 10 degrees centigrade. What is more, the city has comfortable relative air humidify figures: during the exhibition, they will vary between 52% and 73%. Even though the

June 10, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region technological parks development committee decided to place Sinarsky Techno Park on its register. Thus the total number of local techno parks now comes to 13, Sverdlovsk Region Government Press Service & Information Department reports. Sinarsky Techno Park is based on the site of Sinara Pipe Plant in Kamensk-Uralsky and the plant is going to act as the primary enterprise, while Sinarskaya Management Company was set up to act as a management company. ‘The techno park’s production and lab facilities occupy the area of 10,000 sq m, with residents based on

June 10, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region’s leading experts talked about the prospects of further promoting Yekaterinburg’s application for the right to host the EXPO 2020 exhibition and about the areas that need special attention during a round table discussion on Yekaterinburg in the range from hosting the Russia-EU summit to welcoming EXPO 2020 on June 6, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. The discussion participants gathered round a model of the would-be EXPO part that the Governor Administration First Deputy Head Vadim Dubichev said was a historically

June 10, 2013. Russia’s foreign trade turnover dropped by 0.7% in the first quarter of 2013 against January-April 2012 and came to $267.6bn. The export figures amounted to $168.8bn RUR (a 4.1% decrease). For one, copper export declined by 24.8% and nickel export dropped by 35.6%, the Federal Customs Service’s website reports. Most of the goods exported by Russia to the far abroad were fuel and energy ones (their share in the export volume was 75.1% against 73.7% in January-April 2012). The physical volume of gasoline exports rose by 15.6% and that of coke rose by 26.6%. The share of metals