UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 28, 2016. Ural Airlines are not planning to resume operating their Turkey-bound flights any time soon, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Ural Airlines are not going to resume operating flights to Turkey until the relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey have been settled at the very top,’ the press service reports.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 28, 2016. Ural Locomotives (a joint venture run by Sinara Group and Siemens) won Russia’s Business Leaders Contest as the Best Import Substitution Project, the company press service reports. The company was awarded for its successful launch of Lastochka (ES2G), Russia’s first high-speed electric train. The train was manufactured and certified in 2014 and was introduced at Moscow and Sverdlovsk Railways as soon as the following year. The company produced twenty-three high-speed trains last year altogether, all of which were handed over to Russian Railways. This year,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 28, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon signed an agreement with the Russian Football Union to become the general partner of all the Russian championships in 2016-2018, the company press service reports. ‘This partnership with MegaFon makes it possible to work on socially important projects; for example, we have been coordinating The Future Depends on You, a championship for children living in foster homes all over Russia, for a decade now. Also, MegaFon helps us to keep promoting football nationwide,’ says Russian Sports Minister and President of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 28, 2016. Omsk division of Russian Machine-Builders’ Union, chaired by Senior Designer of Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) Igor Shumakov, recently held a meeting, the corporation’s press service reports. The meeting participants looked at the division’s performance in the last five years and came up with an action plan for the coming months. The meeting was attended by Omsk Region Industry, Transport & Innovative Technologies Minister Igor Lukyanov and forty-two members of the Russian Machine-Builders’ Union local division. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 28, 2016. MSP Corporation (a state-run organization for the development of SMEs) and Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation signed a cooperation agreement. The two parties intend to work together to give small and medium enterprises more involvement in the corporation’s purchasing policy, the company press service reports. UVZ Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko signed the paper on Ural Vagon Zavod’s behalf and Corporation MSP’s Director-General Alexander Braverman signed the paper on behalf of his organization. The idea is to advise SMEs on Ural Vagon Zavod’s