HomeMaterials for 21.06.2018
21 June 201809:40

Ural Airlines Launch Sochi-Tashkent Flight

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new flight from Sochi to Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flights will be operated on Airbus A320 liners (both Economy and Business options available) starting July 18, 2018. U6 2659 (Sochi-Tashkent) will be operated every Wednesday, U6 2660 (Tashkent-Sochi) every Thursday. ‘Tashkent is both Uzbekistan’s and Central Asia’s largest city where you can see ancient landmarks, spectacularly preserved. There is Tillya Sheikh Mosque, for example, which is believed to have a hair of the
21 June 201809:40

EVRAZ Holding to Cut Sweet Water Spending by 3,000,000 m3

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works launched a new slurry thickening unit meant for processing blast furnaces’ byproducts. Thanks to this new appliance, the plant will be able to cut its manufacturing water discharge and fresh water spending (into and from the River Tom, respectively) by nearly 3,000,000 m3, the holding’s press service reports. ‘The plant keeps working on its green projects in order to reduce its negative impact on the local waters. We managed to decrease our manufacturing water discharge by more than 15m m3 in the
21 June 201809:39

MegaFon Sets Up Extra CCTV Cameras in Yekaterinburg’s World Cup Days

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2018. Thirty additional CCTV cameras got installed in Yekaterinburg in time for the World Football Championship days. The cameras got connected to MegaFon’s fiber optic lines, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. The entire video stream gets delivered into both the local and the nationwide operation centers online. These highly sensitive cameras (viewing angle: 360 degrees) got installed at sports playgrounds in Festivalnaya St, Dagestanskaya St, and Krasnoflotsev St, in Mayakovsky Park’s fan zone, and on rooftops of buildings and MegaFon’s
21 June 201809:33

Fiat Calls 250 Freemont Units Off

UrBC, Moscow, June 21, 2018. OOO FCA RUS (Fiat’s authorized dealer in Russia) informs customers it is calling off 246 FIAT Freemont units, Rossstandart’s press service reports. The automobiles have to get called off because of a minor possibility of a short failure with Cruise Control on and at a low speed; the software might keep sending acceleration signals into the system, which might result in either the speed remaining the same or in acceleration. The cars will get checked and tested and the software updated if necessary. All the repair jobs will be done at no extra cost for the car
21 June 201809:32

Russia Counter-sanctions U.S. Goods

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2018. Russia intends to introduce a number of counter measures in response to U.S.-imposed steel and aluminum import duties; ‘mirror duties’ will only get imposed on U.S. goods that have their counterparts in the Russian Federation, Prime refers to Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin as stating. ‘As the United States keep up with their excessive steel and aluminum import duties and have no intention of compensating Russia for its losses, Russia will now act within its WTO authority to introduce counter measures relating to goods imported from the U.S.,’