March 21, 2015. Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is getting a new compressed air supply system. The corporation’s press service reports the first out of three screw compressors has already been launched. The three compressors will eventually create a local network. This modern system will come to replace the current energy-consuming reciprocating compressor plant that was made in the seventies. ‘This upgrade of the compressed air supply system is expected to reduce our energy spending considerably,’ says KULZ Chief Energy Technician

March 21, 2015. Yekaterinburg advertising market dropped by 7% to 10% last year compared with 2013, Deltaplan Ad Group’s PR Director Lyudmila Chernykh told UrBC. ‘On average, advertising budgets in the three measurable mass media (television, radio, and outdoor advertising) shrank by 16% in 2014 against a year earlier. These figures do not give a picture of Internet ads, whose amount definitely increased, or that of the printed press ads, whose amount definitely decreased. Based on Deltaplan’s estimates, Yekaterinburg market, with all the non-measurable segments considered, sagged by 7% to

March 21, 2015. 645,000,000 kg of grains and crops and 733,000,000 kg of potatoes are expected to be harvested in Sverdlovsk Region this year, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. According to the Agriculture Ministry, local agribusinesses are fully provided with the necessary seed grains. ‘This year, our farms and agricultural businesses will need 45,000,000 kg of seed potatoes, and they already have this amount in stock,’ the Ministry says. As a matter of fact, 3% to 4% of last year’s yield couldn’t get collected because of early snowfalls in Sverdlovsk

March 21, 2015. Ural Airlines’ own online store opens on March 20, 2015 at shop.u6.ru, the air carrier’s press service reports. Visitors to the website can buy the airline’s branded souvenirs as well as get their flight information, order extra meals on board, rent a car, and book a hotel there. Wings Club members can also get their loyalty bonuses exchanged or buy extra bonuses online. Besides, they get a new bonus (5% of the sum of every transaction) every time they buy something at the online shop, which makes the bonus-covered premium flight even more affordable. Payments can be made by

March 21, 2015. The majority of Russians (83%) are not thinking of moving abroad (outside the former USSR), RBC refers to Levada Center as saying. Only 12% would like to emigrate. Similar survey results were obtained by the center in April 2009, when 80% of Russians were not planning on leaving the country and 13% of respondents said they’d like to be able to emigrate. In 2011-2014, the percentage of those surveyed who intended to keep on living in Russia fluctuated between 69% and 77%. The number of potential emigrants was at its highest in May 2013, when 22% of respondents said they would