February 16, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ-Uraltrac, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is going to sell its customers two unusually colored 2B10M bulldozers. The company has produced green, grey, blue, and even red vehicles before. These two are going to be entirely dull black, with only the plant’s logo at the front and the model’s details on the cabin visible. This kind of coating was originally meant for an exhibition, yet the demand for the vehicles is so high that the customers agreed to get the black bulldozers now instead of waiting for some differently colored

February 16, 2015. A criminal lawsuit involving Valentina Rossomagina, a manager from Hoff (a supermarket), will be heard at Yekaterinburg Verkh-Isetsky District court on February 16. The woman is charged with negligent homicide (Article 190 (part 2) of the Russian Federation Criminal Code). According to Sverdlovsk Region Court’s press service, a cupboard collapsed on a three-year-old child, who later died in hospital as a result of the injury. As it turned out, the cupboard had not been fixed to the wall.

February 16, 2015. Orenburg Airlines (a member enterprise of Aeroflot) backed out of its decision to operate flights from Yekaterinburg to London (UK), New York (USA), and Toronto (Canada), RIA Novosti refers to Rosaviation as saying. The air carrier no longer offers 24 flights altogether, including those from Moscow to Miami, Liège, and Varadero, and from Saint Petersburg to Cancun. It was announced earlier that UTair also decided not to operate any flights from Yekaterinburg to Sanya (China).

February 16, 2015. 1,008 Sverdlovsk Region-based companies and sole traders were at different stages of bankruptcy proceedings at the start of the year; this was 12% more than in early 2014, Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Tax Service reports. 817 businesses are now involved in insolvency suits and are run by trustees in bankruptcy; this number makes up 81% of all the bankruptcy cases. 180 companies and sole traders (18%) are under observation procedures, one business is undergoing a financial recovery procedure, and ten companies (1%) have been subjected to trusteeship. 95

February 16, 2014. Over 750,000 Sverdlovsk Region residents received their property ownership certificates last year, while the number of mortgage deals rose by 12%, Rosreyestr’s press service reports. Nearly 900,000 citizens applied for the certificates, and the number of those who decided to get their cadastral registration along with the ownership certificate went up by 22%. Most of the applicants are private individuals; 40% of property ownership certificates are based on a purchase and sale agreement and 11% are based on the dwellers’ privatization rights.