February 20, 2015. Carl’s Jr., a premium fast food chain, reopened at Yekaterinburg’s Greenwich Mall. According to the representatives of 73 Malyshev St Society, the restaurant will be operating in exactly the same spot as before and will retain all of its quality and excellent customer service. The place was closed down in January when Yarkaya Zvezda, the franchise holder, announced several of its outlets would have to go into liquidation, including the one in Yekaterinburg. This had to with the country’s economic instability. The franchise was then purchased by another company which had the

February 20, 2015. Yekaterinburg rental market hasn’t had any shortage of supply for a while now, Guram Tukhashvili of Ural Chamber of Real Estate’s Analytic Center told UrBC. ‘According to the Chamber’s database, the rental prices have been going down lately. As early as two years ago, the median monthly rent came to 33,000 RUR and now it only stands at about 22,000 RUR. Quite a few new apartment buildings are put up in Yekaterinburg every year, so the supply is increasingly on the rise,’ Tukhashvili says. He believes the demand is gradually going down since some families who used to have to

February 20, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is going to present its promising special vehicles at the International Defence Exhibition in Abu Dhabi this year, the corporation’s press service reports. The corporation’s two-floor, 185-m2 stand will be complemented by an upgraded T90C tank. The vehicle will be presented with a number of new options that are based on the latest trends in the armored vehicle industry and that make the tank fit for the area’s climatic conditions. ‘The display will be a static show with a set of presentations; this means the customers will be able to get

February 20, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court is going to consider Severnaya Agricultural Firm’s insolvency application submitted by Elektrotechnologii. The application was placed with the court on February 16. The defendant was founded on November 14, 2007 and is now managed by Oleg Khan. The company is now involved in a number of lawsuits as a defendant, with the total amount of claims reaching 1.3bn RUR. The debts are to be paid by Severnaya itself, Uralbroiler Yekateirnburg, and other businesses owned by Oleg and Olessya Khan. Sberbank of Russia seized all of the agricultural

February 20, 2015. ChTPZ Group and seven Kazakhstan-based industrial schools signed cooperation agreements under the auspices of ROST-ORLEU Association, the Group’s press service reports. The ceremony took place at Karaganda Polytechnic School; the papers were signed by the Association’s current members and heads of seven more educational establishments: North Kazakhstan Vocational Teachers’ Training College, Petropavlovsk Railway Transport School, Atyrau Polytechnic School, Kazakhmys Polytechnic School, Shaktinsk Technological School, Bolashak/Karaganda Up-to-Date Education School, and