April 15, 2015. Ural Airlines are offering their customers a new service: plane tickets can now be booked through a call center. ‘Call 8-800-7700-262 and pay by your Visa or MasterCard right over the phone. Once the payment has come through, your plane ticket arrives in your mailbox,’ the company says.

April 15, 2015. Russia’s Deputy Minister of Emergencies, Colonel-General Alexander Chupriyan paid a visit to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s heat and power station, the corporation’s press service reports. The visit was part of the official’s business trip to Nizhniy Tagil aimed at inspecting the city’s hazardous industrial facilities. The MoE representative was accompanied by head of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry Sverdlovsk Region division, Major-General Andrei Zalenskiy, head of MoE Ural division, Lieutenant-General Sergei Miroshnichenko, Mayor of Nizhniy Tagil Sergey Nosov, and Uralvagonzavod

April 15, 2015. Russian Copper Company/RCC Group invites everyone to join their first, introductory webinar on Planet Earth and Small Motherland at 5PM Moscow Time on April 15. The webinar will be conducted by Professor of People’s Friendship University of Russia, Director of Center for Innovative Economy under the Russian Academy of Sciences & Russian Ministry for Economic Development’s Productive Forces Research Council Svetlana Lipina. The main idea behind the course is to enhance people’s environmental awareness. ‘We also hope the webinars will motivate our students to design and

April 15, 2015. Sochi no longer remains a popular destination with Yekaterinburg travelers, Tutu.ru’s research findings indicate. ‘Just like in the previous months, most flights operated from Yekaterinburg in March were bound for Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Sochi was in the third place in Tutu.ru’s rating as recently as February, but now the bronze went to Krasnodar, with Sochi dropping to the 11th position. The city is now not even among the top ten most popular places to go to. The share of plane tickets for Sochi flights booked via Tutu.ru dropped from 5.7% in February to 1.6% in March,’

April 15, 2015. The number of vacancies advertised by employers decreased by 34% in March compared with a year earlier, HeadHunter’s research division reports. Most of the vacancies are in sales (40%), IT (14%), banking (13%), and the building sector (8%). At the same time, the number of submitted CVs went up by 42% in March 2015 against March 2014.