В 10.45 глава администрации Челябинска Сергей Давыдов примет участие в выездном совещании по вопросам уборки и благоустройства дворов Курчатовского района. В 11.00 в администрации Челябинска (пл. Революции, 2) состоится награждение победителей конкурсов на лучший ледово-снежный городок и лучшее оформление предприятий к Новому году. В 12.00 в пресс-центре информационного агентства «Интерфакс-Урал» (пр.Ленина, 55а) состоится пресс-конференция первого заместителя ГУ лесами по Челябинской области Виктора Блинова на тему: «Объявление ЮНЕСКО 2011 г. международным годом леса, план мероприятий в

13 марта пройдут дополнительные выборы депутатов Челябинской городской думы и 8 муниципальных собраний депутатов.

Avianova won’t be operating any flights from Saint Petersburg to Yekaterinburg between March 8, 2011 and October 30, 2011, Interfax reports. It was earlier announced on the carrier’s website that Avianova gave up on the idea of making Saint Petersburg-based Pulkovo Airport its second HQ since the airport was unable to offer the airline the financial terms that would be appealing enough. This is why, Avianova reports, the company had to reconsider its plans relating to keeping its current flights to Saint Petersburg or introducing some new ones.

‘We are currently considering expanding our MEGA store in Yekaterinburg, but no final decisions have been made yet. This is why it’s too early just now to speak of specific deadlines or plans,’ CEO MEGA Yekaterinburg Lilia Nenasheva told UrBC. Now the company’s expansion plans were announced by Vice Mayor of Yekaterinburg Viktor Konteev last week. ‘They are now looking into the technical options available. The extension is supposed to be built within the next two to three years,’ the official said. MEGA currently hosts IKEA, OBI, and Auchan.

Ural Airlines started offering its customers tickets for summertime flights recently. On February 1-28, 2011, one can enjoy a discount on tickets to all the destinations in the South of Russia as well as tickets for international scheduled flights to be operated between May 1, 2011 and September 30. 2011. Those who prefer to spend their summer vacations abroad will find Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and China particularly appealing.

Selling tours to Egypt under current circumstances is a crass violation of Russian law and is liable to prosecution, Russia’s Ministry for Sports, Tourism and Youth Policies and Rostourism warn. The two authorities remind everyone that, given the current situation in Egypt, Russian tourists can definitely demand that their tour contracts be canceled or the terms of the contract be modified due to a drastic change of circumstances that were in place at the contract-signing moment (like worsened traveling conditions or other circumstances). Their claims will be based on Articles 10 and 14 of

A Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Yekaterinburg has been nearly ten hours late by now. Flight 475 was to have arrived at 6:25 AM on January 31, 2011. However, the weather conditions caused a delay, so the flight is now supposed to arrive at 3:00 PM. This means that flight 476 from Yekaterinburg to Istanbul gets delayed accordingly. The departure time is now 4:00 PM rather than 7:45 AM.