January 30, 2014. The employees of ChTZ-Uraltrac (a tractor plant that is a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) shipped 6 B10M bulldozers to the local division of Rosgeologia in Irkutsk, Uralvagozavod’s press service reports. The vehicles are fitted with the forest-type protection of the Fleco variety, that is, a steel frame over the pit and the bonnet that protects both the driver and the vehicle from the falling trees. The bulldozers will actually be employed for all kinds of jobs, including clearing the strips of forest land off all vegetation so that a geological survey unit

January 30, 2014. The Director of UralNIIproyekt RAASN Alexander Dolgov and Director of OOO Terem Victor Siminenko were asked to prepare the cost estimates of having the historic walls of Yekaterinburg Central Stadium relocated, the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. Alexander Dolgov and Victor Siminenko have already presented several projects on the reconstruction of the stadium that is expected to host four World Cup matches in 2018. Under the first project, walls would be cut down to several parts, relocated and re-assembled at a new site. Under the

January 30, 2014. This year, the inflow of foreign travelers to Sverdlovsk Region might increase because of a simplified visa issuance procedure for the in-transit passengers; this simplified procedure option is now being discussed by the legislative authorities. The procedure in question would mean that transit passengers from 45 different countries arriving to Russian airports would be able to enjoy a 72-hour visa-free admission regime here, Director of Tourism Development Center Elmira Tukanova said at a press conference. ‘We made sure we took part in the international exhibitions in those

January 30, 2014. The Central Bank feels that as this virtual currency is issued anonymously, private individuals and legal entities might (even accidentally) get involved in some unlawful activities, Bank Koltso Urala states. ‘The Bank of Russia warns both private individuals and legal entities, lending institutions and non-lending financial institutions first and foremost, against the use of ‘virtual currency’, that is, exchanging this for goods (work, services) or legal tenders such as rubles or foreign currency. According to Article 27 of the Federal Act on the Central Bank of the Russian

January 30, 2014. Russian travelers have been unable to leave Phuket Airport for Yekaterinburg since January 27 because UTair’s chartered flight 5 140 gets delayed. Their Boeing 757-200 was to have taken off at 9:50 AM on January 27 but the departure was actually put off till another day. UTair’s chartered flight 5 140 from Phuket to Yekaterinburg is delayed because our Boeing 757-200 aircraft arrived in Phuket late. This, in its turn, had to do with a series of delays (caused by other factors)of a number of other flights that this particular plane was used for,’ the airline’s press service