UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 20, 2018. Ural Airlines are launching their traditional summer flights sale: you can now book tickets for flights to be operated between March 1, 2018 and October 28, 2018 up to 30% cheaper, the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer holds through February 25, 2018; this is a limited offer. ‘You can book tickets for flights to be operated this summer and spring. The offer applies to very popular destinations such as the South of Russia, Europe’s seaside resorts, the picturesque locations in France and Czechia, the neat ones in Poland and Germany, the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 20, 2018. The prices of new homes in Preobrazhensky Quarter in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District will go up on March 1. This price increase applies to studio apartments in the Comfort Class apartment buildings, RSG-Akademicheskoye reports. Preobrazhensky Quarter is quite popular with home-buyers at the moment. ‘The apartments get bought rather quickly: the first two buildings are almost fully taken, while the third one is over 50% sold out. A good selection of apartments to choose from (you can decide on either a ready home or the one currently under

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 20, 2018. Students on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program joined the 6th WorldSkills Russia Championship, held in Sverdlovsk Oblast on February 17-21, 2018, the Group’s press service reports. Nineteen students are competing in twelve different categories, including Mechatronics, Industrial Robotics, Prototyping, Welding, NC Turning, and Reverse Engineering. ‘ChTPZ Group’s teams compete in this blue-collar job championships every year. Our contestants are competing in Reverse Engineering for the very first time this year. Reverse

UrBC, Moscow, February 20, 2018. Rostelecom is launching its Unified Biometric Voice & Image Recognition System on a commercial scale on July 1, 2018, Prime refers to the company Vice President for Development Alexander Ayvasov as stating. The system was designed by order of Russia’s Communications Ministry and the Central Bank of Russia. The initial version of the system was presented to the agencies on February 19. ‘Rostelecom started working on a united biometric identification system as recently as six months ago. The first working version of the system features the very technologies

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 20, 2018. Sverdlovsk Oblast proved one of Russia’s top ten most popular areas last year, with over 2.5 million tourists visiting the place, TourStat refers to its own research findings as indicating. 56.5m people traveled within Russia last year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 3%; foreign nationals made 19 million trips around the country in the nine months of 2017, according to the incoming tourism stats. Krasnodar Territory, Moscow Obalst, and the Republic of Crimea were the three most visited in-country tourist attractions, with 15.8m,