January 13, 2015. UTair Airlines won’t be operating any flight from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and back before March, Koltsovo Airport’s press service informed UrBC. ‘The airline cancelled these Moscow-bound flights till the end of the winter season. There used to be one daily flight on offer,’ the press service explained. The company says the flights are no longer offered due to dropping demand. ‘As the demand for Moscow-Yekaterinburg-Moscow flights has been on the decrease, and in order to optimize our costs, the flight was made unavailable starting from December 22 and until the end of the

January 13, 2015. Gasoline production went up by 0.6% in Russia on December 22-28, 2014 and amounted to 845,100,000 liters, while diesel fuel output dropped by 0.2% and amounted to 1,550,800,000 liters, Rosstat reports. Over the given period, consumer prices decreased by 0.4%; the price of A76 remained the same, while the prices of AI 92, AI95 and higher grades of gasoline became 0.4% less expensive; the price of diesel fuel remained the same. The average consumer price stood at 33.24 RUR per liter (30.29 RUR for A76, 32.26 RUR for AI 92, and 35.04 RUR for AI 95 and higher grades). Diesel

January 13, 2015. Seventeen schoolchildren from Karabash spent a fortnight at Russkoye Pole, a health resort near Chekhov, Moscow Region. The children were treated to a full range of healthcare services, including hydrotherapy, exercise therapy, and medical/social rehabilitation, Russian Copper Company’s PR & Social Policy Department reports. The kids took therapeutic baths, swam in the pool, went inside a speleotherapy chamber, spent plenty of time outside on a daily basis as well as traveled to Moscow and Moscow Region. According to Prof. Yelena Zhukovskaya of Dmitri Rogachev Federal

January 13, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court is going to consider Low Rise Construction Center’s bankruptcy application. The files were submitted to the court on December 30, 2014. Low Rise Construction Center is the Mid-Urals Development Corporation’s (KRSU) daughter enterprise and therefore belongs to Sverdlovsk Region. In 2012, the company took out a 260m RUR loan from Sberbank, guaranteed by the KRSU, in order to put up Yuzhny District in Yekaterinburg. 230m RUR were taken out by the borrowing party in 2012 and 2013, with the money to be paid back by September 25, 2015. However,

January 13, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region hotels will keep getting star categories throughout 2015. The eleven cities that will be hosting the World Cup 2018 games must get all of their hotels starred by July 1, 2016. The requirement applies to all hotels regardless of whether they are planning to offer rooms to the football championship visitors, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Information Policy Department reports. Russian Restaurateurs & Hoteliers Federation believes strongly in the need for the hotels to be ascribed star categories, since this gives guests a clear system. The state, in its