November 15, 2013. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers a trip from Moscow to Beijing with convenient stopovers in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk. Such transit flights are operated through Yekaterinburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Wednesdays and through Chelyabinsk on Thursdays. As for the Beijing-Moscow flights, the ones with a stopover in Yekaterinburg are offered on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and stopovers in Chelyabinsk are available on Fridays, the company’s press service says. A one-way ticket with a stopover in either city costs from ?299. All of Ural Airlines’ flights

November 15, 2013. Yekaterinburg home prices keep rising slightly within the 0.1% to 0.2% a week range. Apartments have grown 3% more expensive since the beginning of the year. According to Ural Chamber of Real Estate, the median price of a square meter of an apartment for sale in Yekaterinburg was 72,201 RUR as of November 11, 2013. Since the start of the year, the number of places for sale has risen by 29%, and the number of rooms in communal apartments offered for sale has gone up by 45%. Over the last three months, the supply in the Ural Chamber of Real Estate’s database has remained

November 15, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (Uraltrac, a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) won a tender for the delivery of two B11 bulldozers to the Sochi division of UES Federal Company, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. The machines have a great mission: to provide uninterrupted power supply for the Sochi Olympics. The bulldozers will become a part of the ‘Olympic Reserve’ of the fleet of vehicles that will be used for the electric mains maintenance in February 2014. The bulldozers will be shipped to their customers this month. UES are preparing their

November 15, 2013. MegaFon’s consolidated profit rose by 8.3% in the first nine months of 2013 compared with a year earlier and amounted to 217.4bn RUR, the telecommunications provider’s financial report says. OIBDA went up by 19.1% since the beginning of the year as well and reached over 102bn RUR; the OIBDA profitability increased by 46.9% against 42.7% in 2012. MegaFon’s net profit rose by 60.8% compared with a year earlier and came to 41.5bn RUR. CAPEX was 23.2bn RUR. The company’s free cash flow was 90bn RUR as of September 30, 2013. In Q3’13, MegaFon’s consolidated profit was 9% more

November 15, 2013. The customs officers of Ural Customs Administration conducted an inspection of over 27,000 documents that proved compliance with all the customs bans and limits and detected 211,420 pirated items, the Administration’s press service reports. The documentary checks revealed 54 documents were invalid; nine of those were presented in the process of declaring footwear, clothing, and furniture at the customs. Measures were taken in all these cases: the declaring party was informed of having produced invalid documentation, and, where necessary, inquiries were sent to the executive