Istanbul-Yekaterinburg flight operated by Turkish Airlines has been delayed. The airline hasn’t been able to state the exact arrival time yet. Now the flight was supposed to have arrived in Yekaterinburg at noon today, but was actually called off.

The project on the introduction of a nanotech center on the premises of Ural Scientific & Technological Institute in Yekaterinburg won in the second open-to-all contest coordinated by Rosnano State Corporation. This means that the project can hope to receive the corporation’s financing. According to Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Industry & Science Alexander Petrov, the center aims to deal in the development and commercial application of nanotechnologies with the help of the most advanced nanotech machinery. The minister explained the project’s total budget amounted to 1.7 billion

Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport neither let any planes land on its runways nor allowed any aircraft to take off from its premises from 9:00 PM on November 28 to 2:00 AM on November 29, 2010 due to unfavorable weather conditions. The heavy snowfall and a strong wind reduced visibility in the airport area down to 150 meters and the friction coefficient of the runway was lower than the officially permitted limit of 0.3, all of which caused considerable flight delays. Twenty-four flights were delayed on November 28 alone: thirteen planes arrived late and eleven aircraft’s departure was put off.

The international raring agency Standard & Poor's reconsidered its rating outlook of the Russian Home Credit & Finance Bank recently, promoting it from Negative to Stable. At the same time, the bank’s contractor long-term and short-term credit ratings were affirmed at B+ and B, respectively. ‘An improved rating outlook reflects our feeling that the bank’s financial performance indicators grew to look better within the recovering operating environment on the Russian market. For one, Home Credit & Finance Bank’s has been enjoying some positive business development dynamics

Transaero-operated flights from Bali and Phuket to Yekaterinburg have been delayed, Koltsovo Airport of Yekateirnburg’s interactive announcement board states. The plane operating Denpasar-Yekaterinburg flight that was to have arrived at the airport at 1:20 AM on November 30, 2010 will only land in Yekaterinburg at 10:15 AM. The plane from Thailand, which was to have landed at 8:00 PM on November 29, 2010, will now land in Yekaterinburg at 2:50 AM on November 30, 2010. In both cases, the delay has reportedly been caused by the late arrival of the aircraft in the respective airports in Bali and