UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2015. 172 inspections of gas-filling stations were carried out in Ural Federal District in the year 2015 so far; in 60% of cases, legal offenses relating to poor quality of fuel were detected. A year earlier, the percentage was 32%, Head of Rosstandard’s Ural division Svetlana Mikheyeva said at a press conference. Mikheyeva explained problems had to do with the chemical composition of the fuel and with the accompanying documents. 4,565,000 RUR worth of fines were imposed on the offenders, including 1.385,000 RUR worth of fines within Sverdlovsk Region.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2015. The number of those officially registered as job-seekers in Yekaterinburg is four times less than that of vacancies advertised by local employers, the city council’s press service reports. ‘According to our statistical data, there are currently 5,405 people out of jobs in the city. Remarkably, not only do all of them stand a chance of employment, but they can also pick from a range of companies, since there are 22,118 job openings on the market this month. In fact, the number of the unemployed was somewhat higher in June (5,493 people), while the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents now owe their electric power suppliers over 1bn RUR, EnergosbytPlus reports. ‘Over 650m RUR are unpaid electricity bills accumulated by 330,000 locals, including more than 5,000 inhabitants of Yekaterinburg,’ says the company’s Sverdlovsk Region Sales Director Alexei Sergeyev. The power supplier laid a total of 34m RUR worth of claims with courts; besides, 145 rounds of visits to debtors were carried out by the company representatives and court officers. Nearly 50% of debtors paid their bills as the result. Some 30,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2015. According to Sverdlovskstat, 1.543m m2 worth of new housing were commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region between January and August 2015, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 1.34 times. 660,000 m2 worth of housing were put up in Yekaterinburg, 112,000 m2 in Sysert, nearly 90,000 m2 in Beloyarsky, 68,000 m2 in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, 56,000 m2 in Berezovsky, over 45,000 m2 in Nizhniy Tagil, nearly 41,000 m2 in Pervouralsk, 37,000 m2 in Revda, Polevskoy, and Zarechny each, and 34,000 m2 in Kamensk Uralsky.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2015. An agreement to set up a military cluster in Nizhniy Tagil was signed during the RAE 2015 Exhibition. The paper was signed by Head of Rostourism Oleg Safonov, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko, Nizhniy Tagil Metal Testing Insitute’s DG Nikolai Smirnov, Mayor of Nizhniy Tagil Sergei Nosov, and Managing Director of National Tourist Union Valeriy Kaigorodov. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports Oleg Safonov said Nizhniy Tagil had great potential in terms of military and patriotic education of the youth, so the