UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based hotels are expected to receive some 200m RUR in extra revenues resulting from Innoprom Exhibition in Yekaterinburg, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. All in all, visitors to Innoprom are estimated to bring around 1bn RUR in short- and long-term revenues for the area. According to Sverdlovsk Region Tourism Development Center, Yekaterinburg hotels are all 100% full at the moment, as the exhibition is in progress. Innoprom 2017 is taking place at Yekaterinburg EXPO on July 10-13. This year, Japan is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2017. Ural Airlines came up with a performance report for the six months of 2017. 776,966 passengers flew with the airline in June 2017 alone, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 14%, the air carrier’s press service reports. 5,218 flights were operated last month, including 3,162 domestic flights, 720 flights to and from the CIS member states, and 1,336 international flights. This is 7% more than one year earlier. Ural Airlines have offered their services to 3,319,504 people this year so far, which is 25% more than in the first half of 2016. 24,178

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2017. MegaFon and Veon (Vimpelcom) decided to stop doing business together in Euroset, the former’s press service reports. The company decided to buy a 50% stake in the retail chain from Vimpelcom and will thus obtain 100% of Euroset’s shares. Vimpelcom will receive a half of Euroset’s retail outlets in return (there are currently 4,200 outlets operating throughout the country). ‘We are grateful to VEON for the retail trade partnership we’ve enjoyed for the last five years. The agreement we have allows both parties to work on their independent retail strategies

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2017. Nearly a quarter of all apartments currently for sale on Yekaterinburg housing market are under 33 m2 large, N1 reports. The smallest (and least expensive) homes — under 20 m2 big — can be found in three parts of the city: Elmash (19%), near the bus station (18%), and Uralmash (17%). These are mostly studio apartments in the older buildings. Homes under 33 m2 large are available on the existing home market and in the newly commissioned buildings in Uktus, Shirokaya Rechka, and Vtuzgorodok. ‘Studio apartments vary in size greatly. The smallest ones range in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2017. The 2nd Uzbek-Russian Business Forum will take place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on September 26. South Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry, whose President Fedor Degtyarev chairs the Russian-Uzbek Business Council, acts as one of the event’s primary coordinators, the CCI’s press service reports. ‘It was Degtyarev who, following his appointment as chair of the council in June 2016, put forth the idea of holding the business forum in question. The very first forum was held in Tashkent last October. Around a hundred bilateral meetings and business talks took