A criminal suit might follow the recent tug crushing into Lufthansa-owned airplane in Perm airport, Ural public prosecution authorities for transportation report. While Airbus A321-200 was getting ready to take off in Perm’s Bolshoye Savino Airport on February 26, 2011, a tug crushed into it, damaging the metallic fixtures that attached the tug to the plane. There were forty-three passengers and seven crew members aboard the plane. An investigative team and Perm’s public prosecutor for transportation Sergey Zabelov inspected the scene of the accident shortly afterwards. It was revealed that

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service approved of handing a big holding of OAO Polymetall’s shares over to a newly created foreign holding. The holding is supposed to get its shares listed at London Stock Exchange in the future, Polymetall’s press service reports. Polymetall deals in geological survey work in four Russian provinces: Magadan and Sverdlovsk Regions, Khabarovsk Territory and Chukotka, as well as in Kazakhstan. As for Sverdlovsk Region, gold-mining enterprises operate in Krasnoturinsk, at Vorontsovskoye gold mine.

In order to extend its destinations network even further and to meet its customers’ demands, Ural Airlines is to offer more Yekaterinburg-Rome flights starting March 23, 2011. The destination proved quite popular last year (the total passenger traffic for Yekaterinburg-Rome and Rome-Yekaterinburg flights came to 5,995 people in 2010), with the demand increasing by the hour. So, one can now fly to Rome twice a week, any Sunday or Wednesday. More flights to Italy’s capital became possible thanks to the company’s long-term fleet upgrade program – Ural Airlines will get four new Airbus planes

Customers have been placing increasingly more complaints about food prices and price tags accuracy at such Yekaterinburg-based food chains as Kupets, Monetka, Picnic, Perekrestok, Kirovsky, and Megamart with Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog), the division’s press officer reports. Following the inspections by the division’s officials, the executives responsible for the violation of consumers’ rights had to face administrative prosecution, while the heads of the enterprises were ordered to remove the violations.