June 13, 2013. The 9th International Weapons, Military Vehicles, and Ammunitions Exhibition Russia Arms EXPO 2013 (RAE 2013) is both getting a new image and changing the concept of working with the social networks, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The changes in the visuals of the exhibition reflect the gargantuan amount of work done by the exhibition coordinators and organizers in terms of content and business agenda. RAE 2013 new logo is meant to put an emphasis on the innovational component and the international scale of the project organization. ‘Our wish to make RAE

June 13, 2013. The Russian Federation Accounts Chamber is going to look into the efficiency of spending budget funds on the design and construction of sports facilities that will be necessary for the World Cup 2018, the Chamber’s website states. The inspections will take place in June-September 2013. Subject to checks are the Russian Federation Sports Ministry, the Governments of Mordovia, Volgograd Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Samara Region, Kaliningrad Region, Rostov Region, Nizhniy Novgorod Region, Moscow-based State Expertise Main Administration, Moscow-based Sport-Engineering Federal State

June 13, 2013. Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Igor Kholmanskikh introduced the new Director-General of Development Corporation Sergey Maslov to the heads of Ural Federal District’s federal constituencies during his business trip to Khanty-Mansiysk. ‘Development Corporation has already acquired a reputation as an effective organization for implementing infrastructure projects in Ural Federal District. Over the last few years, a heat and power station was launched in Harp, a number of new, more energy-efficient boiler houses were built in

June 13, 2013. A big meeting on issues relating to the quality of goods the company makes was held at Ural Locomotives (a joint venture run by Sinara Group and Siemens AG based in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Region). Vice President of Russian Railways and Director of the Traction Department Alexei Vorotilkin, some representatives of the Technical Audit Center and Russian Railways’ departments and local divisions, and industrial scientists and suppliers attended the event. The Quality Day was mainly targeted at organizing the multi-faceted co-performance of the manufacturing plant with the

June 13, 2013. The world’s best-known futurologists and pioneers in their fields – scientists, business gurus, and experts on technology and innovation – are coming to Yekaterinburg on July 11 to take part in the second forecasting session within the framework of Innoprom International Industrial Exhbition (July 11-14, 2013). This year, the foreign visitors will share their vision of the future developments in Technological Breakthroughs: Where and When? Just like a year earlier, the forecasting session will be moderated by journalist and writer, TEFI laureate and the Book of the Year nominee