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May 15, 2003
Interfax-Urals announces opening of press center in Yekaterinburg
Interfax-Urals has announced the opening of a press center in Yekaterinburg that will hold news conferences for representatives of the government and political and business communities of the Urals federal district and the rest of Russia on a daily basis.
Sverdlovsk region governor Eduard Rossel, who attended the opening ceremony on Thursday, said "the formation and operation of the Interfax-Urals news agency is an important event in the public and political life of the Sverdlovsk region and the Urals as a whole."
"In my opinion, this is a well-timed and farsighted step aimed at giving impartial and reliable information backing to the program for advancing productive forces in the region," Rossel said, wishing the agency success "in the big, important job that it has energetically set out to do."
After the opening ceremony Rossel gave a news conference at which he spoke in detail of the 8th national economic forum opening in Yekaterinburg and answered questions from journalists.
Interfax-Urals also has press centers in Tyumen and Chelyabinsk.
Interfax-Urals was set up in December 2001 in the framework of the Interfax project to set up news outlets in Russia's federal districts. Interfax-Urals specializes in reporting on political, financial and economic news in the Urals federal district. The Urals News newswire was launched in March 2002.
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