UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 16, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region-based businesses and organizations owed their employees 14.3% more in unpaid wages and salaries on April 1, 2018 compared with one month earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports.

‘According to data provided by companies outside the small-business sector, their consolidated arrears of wages amounted to RUR 1.5m, which was RUR 189,000 more than on March 1, 2018,’ the agency says.