UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. Passengers flying to Europe between December 31, 2017 and May 31, 2018 with Ural Airlines can enjoy a 10% discount at McArthurGlen outlets, the air carrier’s press service reports. What is more, Salzburg Designer Outlet will offer the airline’s customers a 10% discount and a €2.50 coffee voucher on January 1-March 31, 2018. To get your discount certificate (aka Fashion Passport), you need to produce your Ural Airlines boarding card, your plastic/virtual Wings Club membership card, or a photo of McArthurGlen’s ad in Ural Airlines UAM in-flight magazine’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s subscribers set a traffic download record on December 2, 2017 when they watched the World Cup 2018 draw's live broadcast and talked about its outcome afterwards, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. The users generated enough traffic every hour to equal watching 15,000 games of football. Among the big-city dwellers, the biggest fans watching the draw online happened to be located in Yekaterinburg, Perm, and Tyumen, where the traffic rose by 33%. VKontakte proved to be the most preferred social network for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. Holders of Visa cards issued by the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) can now use Apple Pay, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Apple Pay centers on security and confidentiality. When you add your credit/debit card to the system, the card number doesn’t get stored on either your Apple device or Apple servers. Instead, you get a unique device account number that gets encrypted and safely stored within a chip inside your device. Every transaction is authorized through a unique, one-time, automatically generated security code,’ the press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. Yekaterinburg road authorities imposed a temporary parking ban along 179 streets on December 1, 2017-April 15, 2018, the city council’s website states. The parking limitations are necessary to make sure snow can get shoveled with no delays and no problems. Special road signs will get installed in their respective locations. In case some cars do remain parked in the no-parking areas and thus obstruct the snow-shoveling vehicles, these automobiles will get towed to an impound by road police.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast Legislative Assembly adopted the budget bill for the year 2018 and the draft bills for the years 2019 and 2020 in the second and third readings. Following all the changes in the original draft, and taking into account the expected federal budget transfers, the budget revenues went up by another RUR 3.9bn against the original figures and the budget expenses rose by RUR 4.1bn; the budget deficit will thus amount to RUR 11.5bn. It follows from the budget bill that the overall amount of budget revenues is expected to come to RUR 213.7bn