June 9, 2014. In 2013, the volume of direct investments in Ural Federal District was reduced by over 4 times compared with 2013 and amounted to $1,407m. At the same time, the amount of money transferred by Ural Federal District-based entities and individuals abroad increased by nearly two times and came to $9,525m, the Central Bank's report on direct investments abroad from federal constituencies in 2011-2013 states. When working on this report, the Central Bank's experts took into account such parameters as equity participation, profit reinvestment, and debt instruments. In the

June 9, 2014. The stand run by ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) was one of the most visited ones at the Construction Vehicles & Technologies 2014 Exhibition in Moscow on June 3-7. According to the corporation's press service, consumers are traditionally most interested in tractors and Class 10 and Class 15 bulldozers as well as in the spare parts for the said vehicle types. 'Yet the museum rarity C-65, Russia's first diesel tractor that is presented in combination with a grader made in the 50s or the 60s, leaves no one unmoved as well,'

June 9, 2014. Sberbank is going to finance the construction of an indoor theme park in Yekaterinburg - a project run by Regions Group. The said company and Sberbank CIB signed an agreement recently that says the amount of investment into the project (and a number of others) will run to over 61bn RUR, Regions Group's press service reports. 'The agreement provides for strategic cooperation between the two companies along a wide spectrum of financial products and services, including financing Regions Group's investment program for 2014-2017. The total amount of investment is

June 9, 2014. Ural Airlines operated new flights from Chelyabinsk to Anapa and Simferopol on June 6, 2014. The Chelyabinsk-Anapa flight took off at 8:40 AM, while the Chelyabinsk-Simferopol one was scheduled for 4:45 PM (departure times quoted are in local time), the air carrier's press service says. The airline's planes will be taking the residents of the South Urals to the coast of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Territory and in the Crimea every Friday through the end of September. Prices of a one-way ticket from Chelyabink to Anapa start from 7,250 RUR (excluding the fees and

June 9, 2014. The amount of direct investment in Russia, a considerable rise in which was observable last year, is going to nearly halve in 2014; this is the forecast quoted in a report by Wiener Institut fuer Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (WIIW) that was published on Thursday, Banki.ru says. According to the database the institute has been keeping on the basis of data supplied by a number of national statistical services, the amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Russia reached €59.667bn in 2013, which was 51.6% more than in the previous year. However, due to the fact that the