UrBC, Moscow, September 7, 2015. The number of Russian international travelers went down by 24% in the first half of 2015, with 16.43m Russians traveling abroad in the six months of the year, Rostourism refers to Rosstat as stating. The number of travelers who went abroad as tourists rather than on business decreased by 33.8%, down to 5.49m people. Finland proved the most popular destination in absolute numbers, with 1.7m people (-30% on a year earlier) going there in the first half of the year. However, only 118,992 of them were tourists, which was 35.9% less than a year earlier. As for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. A virtual countdown timer will be activated on Yekaterinburg's official website 1,000 days before the start of the World Football Championship 2018, the city council's press service reports Deputy head of council Sergey Tushin said at his meeting with the council officials that the timer will start 'ticking' on September 18, 2015. Tushin says an actual clock will also appear in Yekaterinburg a bit later, 500 days before the championship kicks off. The exact spot for the device is to become a matter of public discussion.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. Despite the current economic crisis, 59% of Yekaterinburg residents are not ready to work more unless their salary goes up accordingly, E1.Rabota's PR Service refers to the findings of their survey (carried out jointly with Zarplata.ru) as indicating. 50% of those respondents who said they were unwilling to take on a greater workload are already dissatisfied with their pay, so they would rather start looking for a new job. 35% of those surveyed admitted they wouldn't like to work harder, while 11% complained their workload was already

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. The amount of building materials transported via Sverdlovsk Railways decreased by 19.2% compared with a year earlier, the company press service reports. The carrier also handled 1.8% less of chemical and mineral fertilizers, 9.4% less of scrap ferrous metals, 3.2% less of cement, and 11.9% less of coke. On the other hand, the amount of oil and petroleum products cargo, industrial raw stuffs, chemicals and soda, timber, and grains increased by 16.2%, 7%, 6.1%, 11.5%, and 22.1%, respectively. The company's overall freight turnover came to 132.2bn

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. The average price of gasoline went up from 34.59 RUR to 34.79 RUR in Yekaterinburg in the course of one week, Rosstat reports. As of August 17, AI 92 could be bought for 33.8 RUR per liter on average, AI 95 and diesel fuel were sold for 36.11 RUR and 34.65 RUR per liter, respectively. In fact, car fuel grew more expensive in sixty-three constituency capitals last week.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, September 7, 2015. MMK Group invested 5.1bn RUR in the production development of its member enterprises, including 4.6bn RUR directed to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, the company reports. A big part of the money (1.2bn RUR) was spent on retooling Blast Furnace 8. 800,000m RUR more will be required to complete the renovation. MMK Group keeps investing in reconstruction of its environmental protection facilities and in trying to reduce the company’s negative impact on the air quality. The tasks currently at hand are the reconstruction of Sulfur