UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 2, 2015. Over 500 kg of food items got confiscated by Koltsovo Airport Customs so far this year; all of the foods are subject to the Customs Union embargo, the customs head Sergei Abrosimov explained to UrBC. According to Abrosimov, the confiscations resulted in 111 administrative proceedings, with charges based on Article 16.3 (Part 1) of the Russian Federation Administrative Offense Code (non-compliance with the Customs Union member states' international treaties, bans, and limitations). 'Subject to withdrawal was agricultural produce, namely, 301 kg

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 2, 2015. The price of a plane ticket for a flight departing from Yekaterinburg averaged on 12,500 RUR this summer, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 22%, Kommersant refers to Biletix online booking data as indicating. Domestic flights grew nearly 21% more expensive, increasing in price from 9,600 RUR to 11,600 RUR on avearge, international flights grew over 15% pricier (up from 18,900 RUR to 21,800 RUR). 68.5% of all flights operated to or from Koltsovo Airport this summer were domestic ones (for Russia on the whole, the figure stands at 57%). The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 2, 2015. 150 first-year students on ChTPZ Group's Future of White Metallurgy Program were given their student ID cards in the course of a solemn ceremony on September 1, the company press service reports. 'Thanks to the company shareholders, students are provided with the best learning-conducive conditions here in Pervouralsk. You are the country's future blue-collar elite. We hope you come back to work at the company departments very soon,' Managing Director of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) Alexander Isaikin

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 2, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation and Evraz NTMK hockey teams were the first to play at the newly-built Prezidentsky Ice Palace in Nizhniy Tagil. The corporation's press service reports locals will soon be able to enjoy the new swimming pools, the sports arena, the gym, the dancing hall, and the boxing ring at the new place. 'The construction began following the Russian President's provision to this effect. A group of Sverdlovsk Region delegates, headed by Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 2, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation's member enterprises in Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Tagil, and Kamensk Uralsky celebrated Knowledge Day on September 1. The companies' management went in person to the schools where their employees' children study, the corporation's press service reports. Besides, a show was performed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant's theater for the younger schoolchildren whose parents work at the plant. 128 boys and girls came to see it, all children of the corporation's employees and of members of