Three air state borders will be closed in Russia on May 1, 2011, namely, the airports of Ivanovo, Kogalym, and Bykovo, Moscow Region, RIA Novosti reports. The border-crossing points will be closed in accordance with the Russian Government’s decree. ‘The government now has to spend more money on maintaining these points than it could possibly make from these airports’ economic activity,’ Rosgranitsa says.

Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities for transportation detected some legal offenses in the field of air protection and environmental protection on the part of some industrial enterprises that emit pollutants in the atmosphere without a corresponding permit. For one, inspections revealed that SUAL-Kremny-Ural, Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg, Uralkhimmash, Uraltransmash, and Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant that all run permanent polluting facilities kept dumping harmful emissions in the air without any permissions or projects on maximum permissible discharge.

B. N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University is going to lobby the idea of handing the buildings put up in Yekaterinburg in preparation for the World Cup 2018 over to the university, says Rector Viktor Koksharov. We truly hope that the we could use the scenario of Kazan or Vladivostok in preparing the facilities for the World Cup 2018. Vladimir Putin actually mentioned this recently. This would mean we could put up buildings to host football fans, visitors and reporters and then the university would make good use of these buildings after the championship is over. If Yekaterinburg wins, we will do

Novosibirsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) detected that Siberia Airlines violated Article 14.31 of the Russian Federation Administrative Offense Code and will therefore have to pay a 10-million-ruble administrative fine, the spokesperson for the division reports. Siberia Airlines is believed to abuse its dominant position on Novosibirsk-Vladivostok-Novosibirsk flight direction by introducing its own fares. Some tickets cost about 38,000 RUR, which is 1.5 times more than the other carriers operating the same flights charge. The company had no good economic

The Russian Federation Government decided that OAO Uralmashzavod should no longer be on the list of companies that can enjoy the preferential terms of foreign machinery supply; the company used to get some tax relief, which was aimed to help the enterprise restore its metallurgical, welding, and assembling facilities, the Russian Federation Ministry for Industry & Trade reports. The relief used to make it possible for the company to zero in on value-added tax.