UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 25, 2016. Police officers from Yekaterinburg division of the Internal Affairs Ministry’s Criminal Investigation Department and officers from Police Station 9 identified and detained three people suspected of crimes against property, the department’s press service reports. Two Yekaterinburg residents and a native of Nizhniy Tagil are charged with armed assault, robbery, and theft committed in December 2015. The suspects presumably attacked mobile phone shops, as one of them was actually employed as a sales assistant in one of such stores. The information he had about

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 25, 2016. 4,041 new cars were sold in Yekaterinburg in the first two months of the year 2016, which was actually 30% less than one year earlier, Auto-Dealer-Yekaterinburg reports. The market shrank by a quarter in February, with local dealers selling 2,333 automobiles (-25%). Broken down by the most popular brands, the sales figures look like this: 571 Ladas (the current bestseller on Yekaterinburg market), 529 Toyotas (the best-selling foreign brand at the moment), and 310 Hyundais. The latter is now among the three brands whose sales decreased the most over the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 25, 2016. Over a hundred children living in Sverdlovsk Region’s foster homes and boarding schools for orphans took part in a football championship dubbed ‘The Future Depends on You,’ the telecommunications provider MegaFon Ural, one of the championship sponsors, reports. Games are held in Yekaterinburg, Verkhniy Tagil, Kamensk Uralsky, Maly Istok, Nizhniye Sergi, and (for the first time this year) Pervouralsk and Nizhniy Tagil. Eighteen games were held and over fifty goals were scored altogether. The first prizes in both the junior and senior contests went to the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 25, 2016. Ural Airlines operated this season’s first flight to France, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘This year’s first Yekaterinburg-Paris flight was operated on March 24, 2016, with over 120 passengers on board. The scheduled flights from Yekaterinburg to Paris and back will now be operated every Thursday,’ the press service says. The airline says there is a special offer on flights departing on March 31, April 7, and April 14 – tickets can be booked for 16,800 RUR (round trip), all fees included. You have to travel there and back within seven days to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko and Czech Export Bank’s Director-General Karel Bureš signed a memorandum on the restructuring of debt occasioned by the delivery of technological equipment to the corporation in 2007. According to the company press service, the paper was signed during the Czech-Russian Intergovernmental Committee on Economic, Industrial, Scientific, and Technological Development. The loan was restructured at 2.9% a year through the year 2021. The paper-signing ceremony was attended by