UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 17, 2015. 48,532 people officially registered as unemployed with Sverdlovsk Region employment agencies between January and August 2015, Labor & Employment Department reports. 39,609 people registered as job-seekers as of September 1; 38,543 of them were out of employment at the time of application. The official unemployment rate stood at 1.42% in early September, compared with 1.14% a year earlier. The overall number of people looking for employment came to 139,412 on September 1, 2015. The overall unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, compared with 5.8% a year

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 17, 2015. Yekaterinburg existing homes market prices dropped by an average of 0.9% in the last four weeks, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. Compared with the start of the year, the price decrease is 4.7% and now stands at 72,632 RUR per m2, the Chamber reports. The market supply has remained more or less the same, with around 11,450 apartments and some 1,800 rooms in communal apartments for sale within the Chamber’s database; it usually takes up to 5.5 months to make a sale. Over the last four weeks, prices decreased most noticeably in the downtown locations

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 17, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s industrial production index went down by 4.9% in August 2015 compared with July 2015, Sverdlovskstat reports. The index also declined by 10.5% against last August, compared with Russia’s average of 4.3%. In the January-August time span, the index dropped by 3.1% against January-August 2014. Production of fossil fuels dropped by 10.7% against last August and by 3.5% against July 2015, the index in the processing industries declined by 12% against last August and by 6% against July 2015. At the same time, the index went up by 2.2%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 17, 2015. Oksana Burganskaya, Chair of Youth Council at LEPSE (a member enterprise of UVZ Corporation), got elected into Kirov Region’s Public Chamber. Burganskaya was proposed as a candidate by Union of Russia’s Machine-Builders’ Kirov Region division, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘First of all, I am planning to engage in very practical activities such as the organizatino of specific events, in which field I already have plenty of experience. Secondly, my aim is to conduct expert evaluation of draft bills under consideration. I am naturally mostly

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 17, 2015. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev paid a visit to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s stand at the International Import Replacement Exhibition where the company’s civil produce was displayed. According to the corporation’s press service, the Director-General Oleg Sienko presented the Prime Minister the company’s innovative product, KtsKh PKM 25/0.4, a tank car with body made of composite materials. Sienko spoke about the advantages of the product designed and manufactured specifically under the company’s import replacement program. In addition to the