November 28, 2013. Yekaterinburg bookmakers did not prove interested in the city competing for the right to host the World Exhibition EXPO 2020. Today is the day when the hosting city for the event in 2020 will be announced in Paris, and no stakes can be made on Yekaterinburg winning or losing. This might have to do with the fact that the locals are not very interested in the exhibition themselves. One of the local bookmakers said Yekaterinburg residents used to be offered to make their stakes on important social or political events, but people expressed no interest whatsoever. This is why

November 28, 2013. ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod) is going to ship 3 DET 400 bulldozers to Cherepetskaya Power Station. The bulldozers will be used in putting up a new power generating unit and will also be operated at the station’s coal yard to transport coal, the corporation’s press service reports. The warranty set of spare parts for the bulldozers will be delivered onto the nearest technical warehouse that belongs to the plant, which is in Moscow, so that the necessary parts could be delivered to the customers as soon as possible if necessary. To launch the

November 28, 2013. Ford Motor announced that it was calling off more than 160,000 Escape units due to frequent cases of engine inflammation, RIA Novosti reports. The process will involve cars with 1.6 liter engine assembled in 2013 and sold on the North American market. The company explains the problem is that the cylinder heads turned out not to be strong enough. This part of the engine was destroyed during operation, which resulted in some oil getting into the engine and caused inflammation. The company reports that 13 such cases have been registered. In addition to the calling-off, the

November 28, 2013. The supply of office space in Yekaterinburg is 3.5 times behind Moscow’s, the analysts from Jones Lang LaSalle found out in the course of their comparative analysis of office space in non-capital cities of Russia. ‘The supply and demand in the office space segment usually reflect the pace of a city’s economic development, which, in its turn, affects the scale at which different businesses prefer to penetrate the market and therefore to become the potential tenants on the local market. Moscow is definitely Russia’s leading and largest office space market, which nearly 1.3 sq

November 28, 2013. The net assets of Russian banks exceeded 51 trillion RUR on October 1, 2013, which was 19.2% more than a year earlier. These data are available from the rating of Russia’s largest banks that was prepared by the analysts of RBC.Rating. The lending institutions were ranked in terms of asset volume, the loan book and the deposit portfolio volume, the volume of loans offered to private individuals and corporates, and other indicators, SKB-Bank reports. SKB-Bank was one of the country’s top 50 banks in terms of net asset volume and Sverdlovsk Region’s No.1 in terms of corporate