UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2015. As the downfall trend continues on Yekaterinburg labor market, the number of vacancies available in the IT sector went down by 23% compared with last year, the findings of a research by E1. Rabota and Zarplata.ru indicate. 1C programmers and web developers are currently the most wanted job-seekers on Yekaterinburg market. 'The city's IT sector is one of the most needed and valued in employment terms, with salaries above the market's average, says Zarplata.ru's PR Manager Olga Pavlyuchenko. The average monthly pay of an IT sector

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region's Agriculture & Food Minister Mikhail Kopytov feels the local farmers won't be able to recover this year's harvest in its entirety. 'This year's weather conditions make it difficult to collect all of our potatoes properly. The harvesting tempo is lower than the average of many year since it keeps raining all the time and the soil is too wet. Tractors can barely enter the fields, the potatoes are all covered in soil. Our farmers use every opportunity for field work, with all the vehicles ready. We still

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region's surveillance authorities are planning to have some 20,000 kg of apples destroyed; the fruit was confiscated in an attempt to get it across the constituency border in a (supposedly) Polish trailer, Head of Yekaterinburg Customs Sergei Abrosimov said at a press conference today. 'A trailer full of apples, supposedly from Poland, was detained at the northern customs point. According to the documents on hand, these were Serbian apples, but our lab tests indicate the signatures on the documents were forged,' he said.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2015. 66% of Russian citizens have left their home constituency at least once in the last two decades, and 80% of them would like to travel domestically in the near future, Levada Center's recent survey findings indicate. Only 8% of respondents, however, are interested in coming to the Urals. This is a long way from the top three most coveted territories: the Crimean Peninsula (38%), Saint Petersburg (31%), and Sochi (30%). At the same time, the Urals are more popular than Western Siberia (4%), the Volga River basin (4%), and the North Caucasian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2015. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev had a look at all of the promising developments presented at Russia Arms Expo 2015 and gave the international military vehicles and munitions exhibition a very high estimate. 'Exhibitions like these are major, and successful, sites for demonstrating the newest developments in the Russian arms industry; such events naturally attract a lot of attention. This year's one has received a record number of visitors, with delegations from over sixty different countries (about a third of all the states on this