UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2016. Ural Airlines adopted new luggage and cabin luggage regulations recently, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Passengers tend to use more overhead compartment space in winter because of all the overcoats and other personal belongings. This can be uncomfortable for those traveling with cabin luggage only, so Ural Airlines adopts new rules on November 20: a Promo ticket covers one piece of cabin luggage (under 5kg) and one piece of regular luggage (under 10kg); if you fly Economy or Premium Economy, your ticket covers one cabin luggage item (under

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation elaborated a development strategy for 2017-2025, the company press service reports. The roadmap can now be found on the company website uvz.ru, which is a separate website apart from the corporation’s head plant’s website; the idea is for the strategy to finish up the long process of building an integrated business with dozens of railcar and wheel-tracked armored vehicle plants, design offices, and research institutes. ‘We can now proudly declare that the Russian President’s decree issued in the year 2007 has been fully

UrBC, Moscow, November 18, 2016. Federal Grid Company United Energy System’s IAS-calculated net profit amounted to 59.2bn RUR, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 1.9 times. The company’s revenues also rose by 30% and thus reached 165.5bn RUR.

UrBC, Moscow, November 18, 2016. 911,000 new passenger vehicles left Russian plants’ assembly lines in the ten months of 2016, which was 10.9% less than one year earlier. 104,000 new cars were made in the country in October, which was 2.9% less than in October 2015, Avtostat reports. The car-making company AvtoVAZ switched to a four-day week till February 19, 2017 in order to avoid layoffs. As for car makes by international brands, Kaliningrad-based Avtotor and Kaluza-Based PSMA Rus started making Hyundai Grand Santa Fe and a new-generation Citroen C4 Sedan, respectively. Also, KIA’s plant in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2016. Passengers had to evacuate from Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport due to smoke, the airport’s official representative Dmitri Tyukhtin informed UrBC. According to Tyukhtin, passengers (some 100 people altogether) had to transfer from the boarding area back to the airport lounge. ‘Smoke was detected in the switchboard room at the airport domestic flights baggage claim area. All the electric appliances were switched off at once, but some smoke escaped to the domestic flights terminal boarding areas, so passengers had to leave to facilitate airing.