July 25, 2013. Ural Airlines announced a sale on the tickets from Saint Petersburg to the south of Russia and the CIS. The air carrier's press officer reports that starting from July 23, 2013, tickets for the Saint Petersburg-Yerevan flight will be available for only ?180. Ural Airlines operate flights from Saint Petersburg to the Armenian capital every Tuesday. Starting from August 16, the residents of Saint Petersburg can also benefit from a discount offered on the flights bound for Anapa and Simferopol. Tickets for the flights to the seaside town in Krasnodar Territory will start from

July 25, 2013. The Director-General of the Mid-Urals Development Corporation (KRSU) Sergey Filippov's term has been extended for one year, Kommersant refers to the company's Corporate Secretary Vadim Khlyzov as saying. The decision to renew the contract was taken by KRSU Board of Directors. The Mid-Urals Development Corporation was set up by Sverdlovsk Region authorities in 2008 in order to work on a number of large-scale investment projects in the area, including the construction of Yekaterinburg EXPO, an exhibition center, and the creation of the Titanium Valley special economic

July 25, 2013. Ural Federal District division of the Internal Affairs Ministry reports on the results of their Operation Illegal Immigrant that was carried out in cooperation with the officers from the local divisions of the Federal Migration Service and the Federal Security Service. The division's press service reports that 19 such operations were performed in Ural Federal District's federal constituencies in the first half of 2013; 207 people were detained and 124 administrative offense reports were written relating to foreign subjects or apatrides. 'The illegal migrants in

July 25, 2013. Ascent Travel stopped paying any compensation to tourists as the company's funds have nearly run out, the representatives of the tour operator's insurers – AlfaStrakhovaniye and Pomoshch – report, the press service of the Association of Russian Tour Operators says. 'They haven't refused to meet their obligations officially, but de facto they stopped paying,' a representative of AlfaStrakhovaniye said. The insurance company's representative also said that Ascent Travel promised to come up with a statement of insolvency. However, the list of tourists

July 25, 2013. Seversky Pipe Plant (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company) coordinated a number of events dedicated to the employees' professional holiday – Metallurgist's Day. Pipe Metallurgical Company Director-General Alexander Shiryayev, Mayor of Polevskoy Dmitri Filippov, and the plant's Managing Director Mikhail Zuyev gave their congratulatory speeches at the plant's Palace of Culture, the company's press service reports. Over 300 workers received their well-deserved awards. Foreman of Electric Welding Pipe Department 2 Vladimir Savin, mill operator of

July 25, 2013. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) has once again won an industrial contest as a Highly Socially Responsible Enterprise. On the eve of Metallurgist's Day, the Board of the Association of Russia's Mining & Metallurgical Sector Enterprises, the Central Council of Russia's Mining & Metallurgical Trade Union, and Russia's Industry & Energy Ministry's Industry Department declared the results of the 10th industrial contest on the Highly Socially Responsible Enterprise. MMK, which has won the contest a number of times, was declared the

July 25, 2013. Deputy Director-General for Sales of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Nikolai Lyadov and the enterprise's Director for Foreign Economic Activity Alexander Ushakov issued a dealer's certificate to UralMetallinvest (Uralsk, Kazakhstan) A dealership agreement was also signed with the Kazakh firm, MMK Information & PR Department reports. 'This is a first-time experience of this kind for the company. MMK did not use to have any official dealers in the near and far abroad before. So issuing a certificate to UralMetallinvest is all the more important. This