UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2017. Ural Airlines keep introducing more flights operated from Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport as part of Russia-Kazakhstan international relations program, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting February 15, 2017, their passengers will be able to travel directly from Astana to Moscow and back. Departure time is 6:15 PM (Astana), arrival time is 6:55 PM (Moscow) and then 11:00 AM (Moscow) and 5:15P M (Astana), respectively. The new international flight will be operated three times a week (every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday). Ural Airlines now also

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2017. Ural Airlines offered its services to 6,467,188 people last year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 19%, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline operated 47,378 flights (up 11% on the year 2015), including 29,826 domestic flights, 8,985 flights to and from the CIS member states, and 8,567 international flights. The company’s passenger turnover reached 15,344,678,000 passenger-kilometers (up 17% on a year earlier). 471,361 people fly with Ural Airlines in December 2016 alone, and 3,652 flights, including 2,279 domestic ones,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2017. SKB-Bank was declared Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region’s Bank of The Year in 2016, the bank’s press service refers to BankInformService as saying. The bank’s products kept making it to the list of the most popular offers on the market throughout the year; SKB-Bank also contributed greatly to BankInformService’s website-based projects. The bank’s loan officers and consultants offered their advice online and proved readily available; also, SKB-Bank’s press service was quick to inform the public of all their news and helped write editorial reviews. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2017. Based on the International Labor Organization’s data-gathering methods, the number of those currently unemployed was estimated at 142,000 people in Sverdlovsk Region in Q’IV 16, Rosstat reports. In the Mid-Urals on the whole, unemployment rate comes to 6.2% at the moment (compared with 6.8%, or 152,500 people, in the last quarter of 2015).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2017. Last year, an existing home could be had for 48,284 RUR per m2 on average on Sverdlovsk Region market, which was 4.5% less than one year previously, SRG’s research findings indicate. In absolute terms, the decrease amounted to 2,281 RUR per m2. As for Ural Federal District on the whole, prices declined most noticeably in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District (-7.9%) and Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous District (-6.2%). Things look best in Chelyabinsk Region (-3.1%) and Kurgan Region (-4.2%).