December 4, 2012. On the background of an active foreign investment attraction policy, one wonders what exact projects are of high priority and whether our vision of the investment attractiveness is the same to the approach of potential partners. The state encourages investment in the development of industrial parks, creating new high-tech jobs. Also those businessmen would receive substantial government support who wish to co-finance social infrastructure facilities like kindergartens and housing for public sector employees. This means that the projects offered for co-financing are either of

December 4, 2012. The representatives of Yekaterinburg Electrical Network Company took part in the All-Russian conference on the implementation prospects for the electric vehicles charging infrastructure in the Russian Federation that was coordinated at the initiative of Federal Grid Company (FSK UES). The conference participants talked about the electric vehicles market and charging infrastructure potential. This trend in the Russian energy and electricity sector is currently one of the most important ones; it is expected to promote the creation of Smart Grid intellectual networks and to

December 4, 2012. Every day, OOO Bank Koltso Urala sends over 10,000 text messages to its cardholders, the bank reports. Today, on December 3, 2012, the first text message ever sent celebrates its 20th anniversary; this was a GSM-based short message service. Matti Makkonen, a Nokia engineer sent on a business trip to Copenhagen in 1984, suggested using GSM networks for sending text messages. His project came true in a few years. The world’s first text message that read, ‘Merry Christmas’, was sent from a PC onto a two-kilo Orbitel 901 ‘mobile phone’ on December 3, 1992. According to the

December 4, 2012. 1bn RUR was left in the accounts of Sverdlovsk Region Roads Fund by the end of 2012, Chairman of the Infrastructure and Housing Policies Committee and the Legislative Assembly Deputy Oleg Isakov said in the course of the committee meeting today. This money was not spent because of a savings policy. Isakov asked the committee members, who are, in fact, his fellow Legislative Assembly colleagues, to work out a procedure for integrating this money in the budget for the year 2013. Amendments to the budget to this extent have already been presented to officials for consideration.

December 4, 2012. According to the latest updates available, 81,469 local residents have applied to Yekaterinburg Employment Center since the beginning of the year. 51, 860 people enquired about the labor market situation in the city; this figure included both job-seekers and employers, Sverdlovsk Region Employment Center’s press service reports. The number of people who applied to Yekaterinburg Employment Center in order to find a job is 18,989, including 8,753 officially unemployed residents. At the same time, 12,096 people found some jobs in Yekaterinburg and 603 people joined community

December 4, 2012. Sverdlovsk Region Prime Minister Denis Pasler, President of EuroCement Group Mikhail Skorokhod, acting Mayor of Nevyansk Svetlana Kazantseva, and Director-General of Nevyansky Cementnik are to sign an agreement on the implementation of an investment project today, December 3, 2012. The project involves the construction of a cement-making station in Nevyansk, the regional Government’s Press Service Administration reports. The new technological cement-manufacturing line will be housed in the existing facility of Nevyansky Cementnik in Nevyansk. The line is expected to produce