July 10, 2013. Ural Airlines keeps offering very good prices on trips to Montenegro. The airline is now launching a special price for Moscow-Tivat-Moscow flights: starting July 11, 2013, tickets will be available for ?250 (round trip) and ?175 (one-way), excluding the fees, the air carrier reports. Ural Airlines’ flights from Moscow to Tivat and back are operated on Wednesdays and Saturdays on the comfortable Airbus liners that have both the economy and the business class sections. You can also benefit from the appealing prices offered on Ural Airlines’ Moscow-Podgorice flight. The tickets

July 10, 2013. Sinara-Transport Machines presented the produce of its Ural Diesel Engine Plant (UDMZ, Sinara-Transport Machines’ daughter enterprise) at the International Maritime Defence Show 2013 in Saint Petersburg. The company’s press service reports that a conference on STM’s advanced developments in the field of diesel engine manufacturing for the Russian Navy and the civilian shipbuilding industry was held for both the partners and the potential customers of the holding. The conference was attended by the leading Russian and foreign shipbuilding companies and shipbuilding industry

July 10, 2013. The passenger traffic came to 1.86m people at Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport in six months of 2013, which was 10.6% more than a year earlier. The number of passengers on domestic flights rose by 5.4% and reached 924,945 people, the number of passengers on international flights went up by 16.3% and came to 936,975 people, the airport’s press service reports. All in all, 55 air carriers operated 111 kinds of flights at the airport in January-June 2013. Every one in three passengers flew to Moscow; the second most popular destinations were Antalya and Hurghada. Saint Petersburg,

July 10, 2013. The World Student Olympics will be broadcast on Russian TV and on the Internet via MegaFon’s telecommunication channels. The mobile carrier reports that the channels have been offered by order of the primary broadcaster, Sports Broadcasting Non-Profit Organization, and by order of VGTRK, the channel that holds the rights to broadcast the Kazan-based Student Olympics on Russian television. MegaFon offered VGTRK a resource that makes it possible to broadcast seven high-definition television (HDTV) signals. The games will be broadcast on Russia 2, Sport, Sport 1, and Fight Club.

July 10, 2013. Ural Federal University is now among 15 Russian universities that will receive subsidies to make it to the world ratings, RBC reports. All in all, 54 higher educational establishments applied for the subsidies and 36 universities were allowed to compete for them. The selection process was based on such criteria as the strength of the scientific research, appeal of educational programs to college applicants, position in the international college ratings, and some others. In 2013, the winning colleges will be allocated 9bn RUR. Russian President Vladimir Putin said to the Russian