‘We won in all the court cases involving Metro Cash & Carry, but the story hasn’t come to an end yet,’ the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region Federation of Trade Unions told UrBC. The German chain store actually clashed with the local trade unions after Metro’s Yekaterinburg stores management tried to prevent the organization of a corporate trade union there. Another problem apparently consisted in violation of the workers’ right to a compensation for the harmful working conditions. ‘The chairman of Yekaterinburg Trade Networks trade union Alexander Brusnitsin met Metro Vice President in

OOO Staffleasing is no longer a shareholder of OAO Uralmashzavod; the company used to own 32.2% of the Yekaterinburg-based plant’s shares. At the same time, the shareholding of ZAO Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation went up from 60.32% to 92.52%.

‘On Saturday, November 20, 2010, flight FZ901 from Dubai to Yekaterinburg operated by FlyDubai had to go through with an emergency landing in Samara because the landing strip in Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg had been made unavailable by snow; moreover, the conditions for braking on the strip were classed as ‘bad’. For the sake of the passengers and the crew’s safety, it was decided not to try to land in such weather conditions,’ FlyDubai’s press service explained to UrBC. ‘As it happens, the aircraft crew found out upon their arrival in Samara that they had exceeded the officially

В 12.00 в пресс-центре «Комсомольская правда» (ул. Красная, 40) начнется пресс-конференция «Кризисная квартира: социальное иждивенчество или поддержка на пути вперед». В 13.00 в областном перинатальном центре (ул. Тимирязева, 17) в преддверии Дня матери состоится торжественное вручение свидетельств о рождении детей. В 14.00 во Дворце пионеров и школьников состоится прием, посвященный Дню матери.

8–9 декабря в Челябинске пройдет X Уральский инвестиционный форум.