January 13, 2014. Urban Transport Solutions/UTS, a member enterprise of Sinara Transport Machiens (Russia) and CAF Group (Spain) presented its new development – a prototype of a new carriage for Moscow Underground – at the 20th pavilion of the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Mocsow, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. The new underground train can have 4 to 8 carriages attached to it and will be able to travel at up to 100 km/h; its passenger capacity is also very impressive. The carriages are provided with convenient exits, including those for people with disabilities. Interior navigation and

January 13, 2014. Vladimir Roshchupkin, the executive director of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, was given the Russian Ministry of Emergencies award, the corporation’s press service reports. The corporation’s top official was given a commemorative medal of the Russian MoE called Marshall Vassily Chuikov on the eve of the New Year break ‘for flawless dedication to civil defense, prevention of and dealing with consequences of emergencies, high quality performance at work, and to celebrate the 81st anniversary of Civil Defense in Russia.’

January 13, 2014. Ural Airlines announced a decrease in prices for Yekaterinburg-Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv-Yekaterinburg flights. Starting January 12, 2014, all the round trip tickets will be ?52 cheaper, and all the one-way tickets will be ?26 cheaper, the airline’s press service reports. ‘Ural Airlines’ customers can travel to Israel at the most attractive prices: the airline is using the early and late booking options for round trip tickets. If you book two or less days before the flight, the ticket will come to ?256 (including all the fees and charges). If you plan ahead and book your tickets

January 13, 2014. Bank Koltso Urala came up with a preliminary financial report for 2013. According to the bank’s Economics & Business Planning Department’s Head Evgeny Aleksenko, the bank’s pre-tax profit exceeded 700m RUR last year, and the year’s profitability amounted to the impressive 28%. The bank’s net profit comes to some 555.5m RUR for the twelve months of 2013, the bank’s press service reports. Besides, the bank’s balance sheet total increased by 6bn RUR, which was more than 12% than a year earlier. Aleksenko says that in 2014, the bank will keep on implementing its strategy

January 13, 2014. MegaFon specialists blocked about 1 billion spam texts, including scams and other illegal content ones, in 2013. Thanks to the mobile operator’s efforts, customers were protected against annoying ads that are so criticized only too justly, the company’s press service says. ‘A detailed analysis of the customer queries has shown that our customers have been receiving a huge amount of messages related to advertising drugs, sexual services, financial schemes and other dubious or outright illegal kinds of texts alongside regular ads.’ ‘MegaFon experts block over 300,000 such