Starting July 1, 2011, the Hungarian Consulate General in Yekaterinburg is going to issue Schengen visas to Slovakia for those who need them. Now the consulate can also issue Schengen visas to Austria, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, and Slovenia.

Sverdlovsk Region prosecution authorities for transportation are going to look into the way air carriers comply with the existing air legislation and the consumer rights laws due to recent flights delays at Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg. For one, on June 27, 2011 alone as many as seven flights were delayed and four flights were called off at Koltsovo. Orenburg Airlines Yekaterinburg-Antalya flight was delayed by nine hours, Avianova Yekaterinburg-Mineralniye Vody flight was delayed by sixteen hours. In case the federal laws have actually been violated, the prosecutor intends to take steps

Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities for the environment looked into the way the large metallurgical enterprises in Kamensk-Uralsky comply with the existing laws on the atmospheric air protection, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities reports. It was detected that Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant, SUAL-Kremnij-Ural, and Kamensk-Uralsky Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant do not have any permissions that clearly state the amount of maximum permissible discharge of pollutants the companies are allowed to emit into the air.