Sverdlovsk, Russia News

The Russian administration will support the Boeing wish to cooperate with Russian aircraft building companies, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, as Boeing and VSMPO Avisma signed a document related to a joint venture producing titanium parts for aircraft.

From July 1st the Bulgarian consulate in Yekaterinburg will ease the visas issuing regime for Russian citizens who want to visit Bulgaria, the city's consul Plamen Petkov announced Sunday.

Manmohan Singh has arrived in Yekaterinburg for three days of hectic diplomacy centred around the Brazil, Russia, India, China summit and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

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The Russian city of Yekaterinburg is beefing up security measures and making final preparations for the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the first meeting of BRIC leaders.

The circumstances of Sokolov's charges speak volumes. Sokolov is charged based on the accusations of two prisoners who have complained about abuse and forced confessions in the past, giving rise to serious concern that coercion or duress were used against these men.

The constitutive conference of the Youth Council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation opened in Yekaterinburg on Monday.

The Moscow Times>>>> Business 21 April 2009 By Natalya Shurmina / Reuters YEKATERINBURG -- Russia's largest chrome producer expects output of the metal to recover from the summer after a drop in demand led to an abrupt halt to production last year.

Airbus, one of the leading aircraft manufacturers producing around half of the world's jet airliners, has signed a long-term contract with the state corporation 'Russian Technologies' for the supply of titanium products for its airplanes.

A total of 14 kg of heroin have been seized in a joint operation by two regional departments of the Federal Security Service in the Urals, an FSB source said on Friday.

Russian independent natural gas producer Itera plans to give up some foreign projects to focus on the development of its business in Russia, a company spokesman said on Thursday.

In the early hours of a July day in 1918, one of history's most infamous murders was perpetrated on parents, their five children and their loyal servants in a cellar in the city of Yekaterinburg, central ...

The governor of the Sverdlovsk Region in Russia's Urals has called on residents to pick mushrooms and berries and restore ruined pig farms to get through the financial crisis.

By Alexei Pankin It is extremely interesting to follow developments in the Russian press these days.

MOSCOW : As if economic depression were not enough, the city of Kirov is reviving the long-dormant Russian debate over whether or not to change its name.

Unemployment in Russia in 2009 will reach about 2.2 million, Minister of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova said.

Three people died and four more were injured in the collision of a car and a shuttle bus in the Sverdlovsk region.

Four people were killed when an off-road vehicle and a bus collided in the Sverdlovsk Region in Russia's Urals, local traffic police said on Tuesday.

The town of Ekaterinburg will be staging its first UEFA showpiece tournament in April just 12 months after a club from the city claimed a European title, and the man behind MFK Viz-Sinara Ekaterinburg's ...

Azim Abdullu sent $150 home to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, in April. Since then, the 34-year-old day laborer has not been able to provide money to his wife and four children.