HomeMaterials for 14.11.2016
14 November 201615:02

Ural Airlines Reduce Cyprus Flight Prices

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering discounts on tickets for their Cyprus and Kaliningrad flights, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Ural Airlines are offering you a chance to have a great weekend at the best price. Winter is no time to lock oneself at home: you can always go to Cyprus for a new adventure, the 3d Cyprus Jazz Festival in Limassol on November 18, the wine-tasting season that opens at local wineries on November 19, and so on. Alternatively, you can shop for new pieces for your amber collection or listen to an organ concert in
14 November 201615:01

MegaFon to Support Master & Margarita Readings

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon is going to connect over five hundred Internet users and celebrities in eight different cities as they engage in online public readings of Master & Margarita, the company press service reports. In Yekaterinburg, MegaFon has provided a special 100 Mb/sec mobile Internet access channel for the readings. The project will unite over five hundred selected Internet users, actors, reporters, politicians, public figures, sports players, performers, and other celebrities on YouTube on November 11-12, luring them into
14 November 201615:01

MegaFon: Ural Companies Rely on Clouds

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon reports companies based in the Mid-Urals tend to rely on cloud technologies more often than other user categories, the company press service reports. Starting this year, local companies have been using a hosted PBX six times more often than regular landline options. Based on MegaFon’s statistical data, every one in two new hosted PBX contracts landed within the Greater Urals’ ten federal constituencies get signed with the businesses based in Sverdlovsk Region. It is reported that Tyumen Region and Chelyabinsk
14 November 201615:01

Sverdlovsk Region: 28% of Meat, Dairy Products Fail to Meet Standards

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2016. 28.2% out of seventy-one meat and dairy food samples tested in Sverdlovsk Region in the three quarters of the year either failed to meet technical regulations or turned out to be adulterated. Deputy Head of Rosselkhoznadzor’s Sverdlovsk Region division Natalya Bannikova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg that nine out of twenty-eight companies that provided the samples were actually located outside Sverdlovsk Region. ‘100% of food samples provided by these nine businesses were adulterated, which means Sverdlovsk Region producers offer better
14 November 201615:00

Sverdlovsk Region: 43,000 kg of Sanctioned Foods Disposed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2016. 43,000 kg of sanctioned foods had to be crushed and disposed of in Sverdlovsk Region in the nine months of the year (compared with 500 kg in the entire year 2015), Head of Rosselkhoznadzor’s Sverdlovsk Region division Igor Tukhbatov said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. Mostly, these were apples, pears, and Cabbage imported from (mainly) Poland and Turkey. Also, some of the sanctioned items were first sent to Belarus and then imported to Russia as allegedly Byelorussian foods. ‘It turns out Belarus is no longer a land-locked country, judging by