Editing Yekaterinburg (section)

==International relations==
===Consulates===
The United States,<ref>{{cite web|title=Official website of the U.S. Consulate General in Yekaterinburg|url=http://yekaterinburg.usconsulate.gov/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408122441/http://yekaterinburg.usconsulate.gov/|archive-date=8 April 2012|access-date=19 April 2012}}</ref> United Kingdom,<ref>{{cite web|title=Official website of the British Consulate General in Yekaterinburg|url=http://ukinrussia.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/other-locations/ekat-landing/|access-date=19 April 2012|archive-date=3 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103033022/http://ukinrussia.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/other-locations/ekat-landing/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Germany,<ref>{{cite web|title=Official website of the German Consulate General in Yekaterinburg|url=http://www.jekaterinburg.diplo.de/Vertretung/jekaterinburg/de/Startseite.html|access-date=19 April 2012|archive-date=3 August 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803062119/http://www.jekaterinburg.diplo.de/Vertretung/jekaterinburg/de/Startseite.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> France,<ref>{{cite web|title=Official website of the French Consulate General in Yekaterinburg|url=http://www.ambafrance-ru.org/-Ekaterinbourg-|access-date=19 April 2012|archive-date=29 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429005651/http://www.ambafrance-ru.org/-Ekaterinbourg-|url-status=dead}}</ref> China<ref>{{cite web|title=Chinese Consulate General in Yekaterinburg|url=http://ekaterinburg.chineseconsulate.org/chn/|access-date=7 September 2013}}</ref> and several other countries have consulates in Yekaterinburg.

===BRIC summit===
The [[BRICS|BRIC]] countries met for their [[1st BRIC summit|first official summit]] on 16 June 2009, in Yekaterinburg,<ref name="BBC">{{Cite news|date=16 June 2009|title=First summit for emerging giants|work=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8102216.stm|access-date=16 June 2009}}</ref> with [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]], [[Dmitry Medvedev]], [[Manmohan Singh]], and [[Hu Jintao]], the respective leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China, all attending. The foreign ministers of the BRIC countries had also met in Yekaterinburg previously on 16 May 2008.{{Fact|date=November 2024}}

===World Expo===
In June 2013, at the 153rd General Assembly of the [[Bureau of International Expositions]] held in Paris, representatives from Yekaterinburg presented the city's bid to host the [[Expo 2020]]. Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed during a televised statement in English to earmark the required funds to build an exhibition complex large enough to receive the estimated 30 million visitors from more than 150 countries.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Louis|date=18 June 2013|title=Yekaterinburg presents city's bid for 2020 World Expo|url=http://yekaterinburgnews.com/daily-news/yekaterinburg-presents-citys-bid-for-2020-world-expo/5285/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127094602/http://yekaterinburgnews.com/daily-news/yekaterinburg-presents-citys-bid-for-2020-world-expo/5285/|archive-date=27 November 2013|access-date=20 June 2013|publisher=Yekaterinburg News}}</ref> Ultimately, [[Dubai]] was chosen to host the exhibition. Yekaterinburg later bid for the [[Expo 2025]]. Yekaterinburg's concept for the bid exhibition relates to the technologies to make people happy by changing the world with innovation and quality of life. The host was announced on 23 November 2018 and Yekaterinburg lost out to Osaka, Japan.

Yekaterinburg hosted the Global Summit on Manufacturing and Industrialization (GMIS — 2019) under the auspices of the United Nations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Глобальный саммит по производству и индустриализации (GMIS – 2019) |url=https://roscongress.org/events/globalnyy-sammit-po-proizvodstvu-i-industrializatsii-gmis-2019-/about/ |access-date=12 December 2021 |website=Росконгресс}}</ref> The annual [[Innoprom|INNOPROM]] exhibition is among the five largest industrial exhibitions in the world.<ref>{{cite web|last=КИРЯГИН|first=Кирилл|date=22 July 2015|title=ИННОПРОМ – в пятёрке крупнейших промышленных выставок мира|url=https://ural.aif.ru/industry/particulars/innoprom_v_pyatyorke_krupneyshih_promyshlennyh_vystavok_mira|access-date=12 December 2021|website=ural.aif.ru|language=ru}}</ref>

===Twin towns – sister cities===
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Russia}}
Yekaterinburg is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web|title=Побратимы и тезки Екатеринбурга|url=https://ekb-room.ru/pobratimy-i-tezki-ekaterinburga-47634|website=ekb-room.ru|publisher=The Ekb Room|language=ru|date=20 October 2014|access-date=22 December 2020|archive-date=18 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118002532/http://ekb-room.ru/pobratimy-i-tezki-ekaterinburga-47634/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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* {{flagicon|Algeria}} [[Annaba]], [[Annaba Province]], Algeria
* {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Ferentino]], [[Lazio]], Italy (1997)
* {{flagicon|China}} [[Guangzhou]], [[Guangdong]], China (2002)
* {{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Incheon]], South Korea (2009)
* {{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[Managua]], Nicaragua (2013)
* {{flagicon|Bulgaria}} [[Plovdiv]], [[Plovdiv Province]], Bulgaria
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], [[California]], United States (1992)
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