In the eight months of 2012, over 10bn cubic meters of natural gas were consumed in Sverdlovsk Region. Last year, over 18bn cubic meters were consumed in the region, Vice Premier of Sverdlovsk Region Government Sergey Zyryanov said at a meeting with the heads and employees of local gas enterprises. The meeting was held at Sverdlovsk Region Government building, and the attendees were greeted on behalf of Governor Evgeny Kuivashev and the government by Sergey Zyryanov and the Minister for Energy & Communal Housing Services Nikolai Smirnov. ‘The Governor and the region’s government have

Expert RA, a rating agency, affirmed Uralsib Non-State Retirement Fund’s reliability rating at A: ‘high reliability rating’; the rating outlook was changed from Stable to Positive. The ‘Positive’ outlook means the rating is highly likely to go up in the short term. While looking into Uralsib’s rating status, the agency pointed out the great scale of accumulated investment profitability of customers’ retirement savings (profitability came to 17%, with some adjustments for the inflation rate, between December 31, 2009 and March 31, 2012) and the great scale of accumulated profitability of the

The general committee of Russian Red Cross thanked Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation for helping the victims of a recent flood in Krasnodar Territory. The organization expressed its gratitude for ‘the admirable achievements in contributing to humanism and mercy’. Following the Krymsk tragedy, Uralvagonzavod administration and the trade union committee coordinated the collection of humanitarian aid. Thousands of workers donated clothes, medicines, food, water, baby food, and much else besides. The trade union committee purchased some blankets and sheets for the flood

Yekaterinburg was only given the 49th position in the rating of Russian cities with the happiest residents, whereas the capital of a neighboring region Tyumen was one of the top 10, RBC daily reports. The monitoring agency NewsEffector conducted a research on the happiness levels of people living in the Russian Federation constituencies. The research findings indicate that the happiness index for cities with a population of over one million people is not so great after all. Saint Petersburg, for one, was only given the 16th position, Yekaterinburg was given the 49th position, and Novosibirsk

Russian Copper Company (RMK) presented schoolbags to 200 first-graders of Karabash. On Friday, August 31, the Knowledge Day took off in Karabash with a play called the Punch Carnival. ‘Our online art school Karabash_ka has been operating for a year now; this is a project by Russian Copper Company that the schoolchildren of Karabash take a very active part in. This summer, Respect, a children’s theater, was opened in town, and Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Moscow’s best teachers are now training children in the ABCs of drama. We will keep doing our best to create the most creativity- and