February 17, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant looked at the performance results of its voluntary neighborhood watch team that was set up one year ago, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘1,253 workers from nearly all of the head plant’s divisions joined the watch over the course of the year. Their shifts amounted to 2,100 hours altogether, with an average of twenty people per shift. The voluntary police assistants are foremen, engineers, personnel managers, heads of departments, offices, and divisions, economists, technicians, press operators, janitors, adjusters, millers,

February 17, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court ruled that OAO Pnevmostroymachine should undergo bankruptcy proceedings. On December 5, 2014, a claim was placed with the court by Raifffeisenbank; the plaintiff insisted that Pnevmostroymachine be declared insolvent due to its 29m-ruble debt; the claim was called off after a peace settlement. However, on December 12 the defendant itself submitted an insolvency application. According to the files relating to the case, the company admitted owing 2,357,312,913 RUR to its creditors as of November 1, 2014. The company’s current assets amount

February 17, 2015. The deteriorating economic circumstances have resulted in considerably more office space available for rent in Yekaterinburg. The share of Class A offices to let rose to 23% in the last quarter of 2014, that of Class B+ offices went up from 2% to 11%. The share of vacant Class C offices kept shrinking between December 2013 and September 2014 but increased to 14% in the fourth quarter of the year, Ural Chamber of Real Estate reports. Around 15% of good quality offices are available for rent in Yekaterinburg at the moment and are advertised on the estate market. Experts

February 17, 2015. Ural Airlines is launching a special offer on its Yekaterinburg-Tel Aviv flights: a round trip can now be booked for €129; the tickets are already available for purchase. Special rates hold for flights to be operated between March 18 and May13, 2015 (excluding airport fees and airline charges). The airline reduced the fuel fee for this flight by €36 (one-way trip) and €72 (round trip). Ural Airlines will operate direct flights from Yekaterinburg to Tel Aviv every Wednesday starting March 18, 2015. The flight will be performed on Airbus liners that have both economy and

February 17, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (pipe-making member enterprises of ChTPZ Group) supplied 2,073,000,000 kg of pipe products to their customers in 2014, which was 395,000,000 kg (23.6%) more than in 2013, the Group’s press service reports. This increase has to do with more shipments on large-diameter pipes onto the home market and more shipments of OCTGs onto the CIS markets. The pipe manufacturing enterprises delivered 1,038,000,000 kg of welded pipes to their customers in the twelve months of 2014; this was 38% more than a year earlier. The