UrBC, Moscow, September 18, 2015. More than 10,000 cyber crimes were registered in Russia in the first half of 2015, RIA Novosti refers to Head of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry’s K Department Alexei Moshkov as saying. ‘Over 10,000 crimes in the telecommunications and computer data sector were registered in Russia in the first six months of the year, which was 67% more than a year earlier,’ Moshkov said. According to Moshkov, 11,000 cyber crimes were detected in the course of the entire year 2014. The official pointed out that cyber criminals were using malware such as Trojans and other

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2015. 47% of Russians have felt the negative impact of sanctions imposed on their country by the West, the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center reports. 22% of respondents did not feel affected in any way, and 21% of those surveyed said things got better. A half of respondents feel the country’s foreign policy is more important than economic losses. 37% of those surveyed do not share this view.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2015. The number of sheep and goats at Sverdlovsk Region-based farms decreased by 50% between August 2014 and August 2015 and reached 1,200, Sverdlovskstat reports. The overall number of sheep and goat livestock decreased by 4.6%, down to 77,900. 65,000 of those belong to private owners. As for beef cattle, the number of these went up by 0.7% and came to 280,500 head of cattle. The number of pigs dropped by 1.7%, down to 336,000. Poultry amounts remained the same in August 2015 as a year earlier, namely, 13.6m.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2015. Yekaterinburg proved one of Russia’s 10 Best Cities to Work, Superjob’s research findings indicate. There are forty-five cities in this rating altogether, with Yekaterinburg coming 9th in Group A (cities with good employment potential, that is, high salaries, low competition, little unemployment and job migration). Moscow was the first on the list, followed by Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Saint Petersburg.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is going to deliver its most powerful diesel-electric bulldozer, DET 400, to Pervouralsk Silica Plant, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The customer plant is one year older than Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and has been producing firebricks needed for repair and maintenance of smelting ovens since 1932. The plant has its own clay quarry where a few of our bulldozers are already in use. The customer has plenty of experience of our vehicles, which is why they chose