UrBC, Moscow, October 14, 2010. The global gold prices have soared again and set yet another record of $1,370 per ounce at the close of business today; this has become the 16th record-setting figure in the last five weeks, the trading reports say. For one, December’s gold futures went up by 1.8% (namely, up to $1,370.5 per troy ounce) at Comex exchange in New York by the end of Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2010. Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly’s two chambers elected their representative in Russia’s Soviet of the Federation at a joint meeting today. As a matter of fact, the seat has been vacant for eighteen months now after former representative Yuri Osintsev left for the Russian Federation Ministry of Regional Development. Today, the Legislative Assembly deputies decided that Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy should get the position. The results of the secret voting were the following: twenty-one Sverdlovsk Region Duma deputies voted in favor of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2010. Yekaterinburg’s second hand shops are as popular as ever; since the start of the recession, the number of their customers has gone up by 30% to 45% and is not going down for the time being, Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg’s Viktor Konteev’s press officer Ilona Starodubtseva reports. A recent marketing research has shown that 67% of Yekaterinburg residents visited second hand shops at least once, and about 50% took their unwanted clothes there. Besides, over 55% out of 1,500 respondents commented on the need for the second hand trade to expand. Clothes and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2010. The dispatcher of Severouralsk-based Krasnaya Shapochka mine reported at 2:40 PM on October 13, 2010 that a rock burst occurred at the mine. The rock outburst left one twenty-three-year-old mine worker injured; the victim of the accident, suffering from a brain concussion and a contusion of the right hip, was taken to Severouralsk municipal hospital and is now feeling better. The mine keeps operating as usual, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Ministry of Emergencies reports.