UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 16, 2016. Yekaterinburg came fourth in the rating of Russia’s most popular spring break destinations for families with children, Travel.ru states. According to the website, hotel bookings in Yekaterinburg are made for three days on average, for the price of 3,200 RUR per night. The other cities on the top ten list are Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Velikiy Novgorod, Petrozavodsk, Kostroma, Tula, and Sochi. Vyborg, Kolomna, Suzdal, Pereslavl-Zalessky, and Pushkinskiye Gory proved the most popular small towns for family trips. Also, Oktogo.ru says Minsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 16, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) received an increased number of customer complaints relating to the quality of personal, financial, medical, and telecommunications services rendered to them last year, the division’s acting head of Consumer Rights Protection Department Olga Kharitonova said at a press conference today. 16,500 complaints were submitted to the organization last year altogether, including 10,000 that were related to consumer rights protection. Most of these complaints had to do with services

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 16, 2016. The Archangel Michael Sports Club in Yekaterinburg welcomed the children supported by Russian Copper Company’s charity fund and the company’s Chair of the BOD Igor Altushkin for a family event on March 12, the company press service reports. The event, dubbed Spring Carousel and dedicated to the coming of the spring and the Mardi Gras celebrations, gathered together over seventy kids and teens aged between 3 and twenty, including twenty-four children from Karabash foster home and children diagnosed with cancer, cardiovascular diseases, hearing problems, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 16, 2016. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) recently underwent an audit that was necessary to start applying for pipeline manufacturing permits, the company press service reports. The plant is now working, among other things, on pipeline lock valves for a number of large Russian enterprises. A technical audit of the company’s overall activity to prepare the plant for licensing and certification was the first stage in the project. The next step was creating a roadmap on personnel training and production preparations. Once these have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 16, 2016. Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) got the international compliance certificate IRIS, the company press service reports. Now Russian Railways, the company’s customer and partner, completed the development of its strategic quality management system last year and adopted a policy of prioritizing suppliers with IRIS certificates. ‘Our company set up an ad hoc team in late 2014 to work towards a certification audit and getting the certificate. In the course of one year, a set of documents necessary for the introduction of a