August 12, 2013. Ural Airlines now offers a special price on flights from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and back. One-way tickets start from 4,370 RUR (plus the fuel fee) and are already available for sale both on the company website ( www.uralairlines.com) and at the booking offices, the airline's press service reports. Ural Airlines currently operates up to 5 Yekaterinburg-Moscow-Yekaterinburg flights daily.

August 12, 2013. The American chain Quiznos is planning to open up to 500 restaurants in Russia in the nearest decade; this includes a number of points in Yekaterinburg: a restaurant is expected to be opened here in 2014, RIA Novosti reports. Quiznos announced its entrance in 2012. In Russia, the development of the chain is supervised by QSR Russia Ltd, an international management company and master franchisee. The first two fast food restaurants Quiznos Sub were launched in Saint Petersburg in the summer. The company intends to focus on cities with population over 1m people: Yekaterinburg,

August 12, 2013. Aeroflot Russian Airlines, a partner of Yekaterinburg EXPO 2020 Application Committee, had the exhibition's official logo painted on the bodies of two of its aircraft, the airline's press service says. The World Exhibition is one of the largest-scale international events with a many years' history. EXPO exhibitions are held every five years and last for six months. A decision to appoint a host country for the event is made by the government. EXPO 2020 has grown to become one of Russia's priority national projects, just like the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and

August 12, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region's state debt declined by 10m RUR in July 2013 and amounted to 18.37bn RUR on August 1, 2013, the region's Finance Ministry reports. This means Sverdlovsk Region has managed to decrease its state debt by 2,37bn RUR since the beginning of the year.

August 12, 2013. According to the statistical data available, Ural Federal District and Siberian Federal District invest the least amount of money into the hotel sector among other constituencies — about 1.5bn RUR, the findings of a research by INFOline called 180 Hotel Construction Projects in Russia in 2013-2016 state. According to this research findings, the greatest amount of hotel sector investments is seen in Central, Southern, and North-Western Federal Districts. On average, a little under 6bn RUR gets invested in a single hotel in these federal districts. All in all, the amount of