July 11, 2013. Canada is going to vote for Yekaterinburg when deciding upon the city that will host the international exhibition EXPO 2020, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Russia John Sloan told Mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Porunov in the course of their meeting. The city council's press service reports that the Ambassador spoke highly of the up-to-date look the Urals' capital has, and of the city's advanced development. The two parties talked about the prospects of their possible cooperation. For one, the Canadian officials suggested sharing

July 11, 2013. Ural Airlines is going to present its innovative passenger services at its own stand at Innoprom. This year, Ural Airlines keeps on developing its information services and offers new options to its customers; the services are to grow more personal and will provide a tailor-made approach to every passenger. The presentation will take place at Pavilion 1, Stand 1E7, at 11 AM on July 12. The new services will be reported on by the airline's Director for Quality Alexei G. Fomin. For one, an upgraded website with the advanced Amadeus-based online check-in option, new booking

July 11, 2013. A number of bills aimed at supporting investor activity in Sverdlovsk Region have been adopted by the local Legislative Assembly deputies. According to Sverdlovsk Region Government's Press Service & Information Department, there are three laws altogether – On Changes to Sverdlovsk Region Law on State Support to Investors in Sverdlovsk Region, On Changes to Article 2 of Sverdlovsk Region Law on the Income Tax Rate for Certain Sverdlovsk Region-based Taxpayer Categories, and On Changes to Sverdlovsk Region Law on Introducing Corporate Property Tax. The said set of laws

July 11, 2013. Siberian Agrarian Group stopped all operations at its Mikom meatpacking plant in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Region. The plant was purchased for 152m RUR in 2011, Interfax reports. 'The city administration received an official notification from the owners that the company stopped operating in Kamensk-Uralsky on June 15,' the city administration representative told the news agency. Now the city employment center says that there are currently 23 people working at the meatpacking plant who are busy bringing everything to a close.

July 11, 2013. Over 1,000 automobiles have been stolen by hijackers since the beginning of the year. 817 out of about 1,000 stolen cars were Russian makes and only 252 were foreign vehicles, Sverdlovsk Region division of the State Road Safety Inspection reports. VAZ-2106 and VAZ-21065 were the most popular cars with hijackers: 123 such makes were stolen, followed by 117 VAZ-2109, VAZ-21093, and VAZ-2114. VAZ-2105, VAZ-21074, with 70 stolen units, were in the third place. VAZ-1111, GAZ, and Chevrolet were stolen least often. As for foreign cars, the ones that were hijacked most often were