UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 13, 2017. Ural Airlines are selling their tickets at a reduced price on November 11-17, 2017, the air carrier’s press service reports. Discounts (up to 30%) are offered on flights to be operated between November 11, 2017 and March 24, 2018 from Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Chita, Tomsk, Barnaul, Omsk, Kemerovo, Blagoveshchensk, Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk, and Vladivostok to destinations around Russia as well all over the rest of the world. ‘Our passengers can use their Wings Club bonus miles to partially cover the cost (1 bonus = RUR 1) as well as enjoy a RUR 1,000

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 13, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Chair of the BOD Igor Altushkin and Akim of Aktyubinsk Oblast, Kazakhstan Berdybek Saparbayev signed a memorandum on investment cooperation, the company press service reports. The document was signed at the 14th Interregional Russia-Kazakhstan Forum on November 9, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbeyev were present at the ceremony. ‘The two parties agreed to work together on geological survey projects and industrial development of copper and zinc ore deposits in Aktyubinsk Oblast as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 13, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast was faced with a depopulation trend caused by migration in January-September 2017, Sverdlovskstat reports. According to the agency’s statistics, 29,585 arrived in the constituency and 33,043 people left Sverdlovsk Oblast in January-September 2017, which means migration-caused depopulation amounted to 3,548 people. A year earlier, the figure was 5,113 people. At the same time, the international migration was actually on the rise (+2,980 people), although this is still less than one year earlier (+4,910 people). In terms of demographic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 13, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast’s tax authorities issued RUR 148m worth of additional tax warrants, with money to be paid to the consolidated national budget, following their checks and inspections in the nine months of 2017, Sverdlovsk Oblast division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service reports. 1.3m in-house tax audits of taxpayers’ declarations resulted in RUR 1.372bn worth of extra tax warrants. 513 on-site audits of businesses and 72 checks of private individuals resulted in RUR 5.104bn worth of extra tax payments to be made. The on-site tax audits of businesses and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 13, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast will have to redistribute RUR 93.6m worth of inter-budgetary transfers next year, the constituency’s Information Policy Department reports. Sverdlovsk Oblast is expected to get RUR 209.8bn in revenues and to spend RUR 221.2bn. Next year, the expected budget deficit figures will thus amount to RUR 11.3bn, which will be RUR 2.3bn less than in the year 2017. The budget draft bill will be heard at the constituency’s Legislative Assembly session on November 14, with a follow-up procedure on the distribution of budget funds across