March 26, 2014. The catering business in downtown Yekaterinburg and the ones close to sports facilities will have to get their menus translated into English and other foreign languages by the start of the world football championship in 2018, Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg for Consumer Market & Services Vladimir Bolikov said on air of Open Studio Yekaterinburg. According to Bolikov, the café and restaurant staff will also have to speak Engish if they want to host the World Cup visitors. ’22 of our restaurants employ chefs from the far abroad. The staff (at least one or two people in every

March 26, 2014. Ural Airlines and its German partners, KolnTourismus and Duty Free Heinemann, prepared some nice gifts for passengers flying to Germany, the airline’s press service reports. After the passengers check in for their Moscow-Cologne or Cologne-Moscow flight, a special coupon will be given to them along with the boarding pass. If you make at least €100 worth of purchases at Cologne Bonn Airport’s Duty Free Heinemann shop within one month of the check-in date, the coupon entitles you to a free 500ml bottle of Hennessy. In addition, passengers flying from Moscow to Cologne are given

March 26, 2014. An interdepartmental committee made the decision to launch the industrial production of the new V-46 diesel engine for T-72 tank at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in March 1974. ‘The production launch was preceded by a lot of efforts on the part of the plant’s diesel design office headed by Ivan Trashutin and his deputies Victor Spassky and Semyen Muzikus. All three of them were the inventors of the changes incorporated into the engine design and received the USSR State Prize for this. The production workers headed by the plant’s Director-General Grigory Zaichenko, Chief Engineer

March 26, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities and Sverdlovsk Region interdepartmental public prosecution authorities for the environment checked compliance with the environmental legislation during the preparation of site for Sverdlovsk Region hi tech Universitetsky Park in Yekaterinburg. According to their press service, the contractor cut down 4 hectares of woods when preparing the construction site around Lake Shartash. ‘The approximate amount of timber came to 1,200 m3, yet the contractor did not have any logging permits. According to our preliminary estimates, the

March 26, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region tax authorities received about 60,000 personal income statements from private individuals as of March 1, 2014, the press service of Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service reports. According to these tax declarations, taxpayers are to direct nearly 50m RUR to the local budget. Over 43,000 taxpayers applied for property-related tax deductions and some 16,000 applied for tax relief. Such applications will result in 1.905m RUR that will be paid back to the taxpayers.