UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2015. Rosstat reports 30.8% of companies in the Russian construction industry turned out to be incurring losses between January and July 2015; this exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 2.2%. The share of loss-making businesses is also rising in the communications sector (up from 29.8% to 34%), communal housing services sector (up from 38.4% to 40.5%), and transportation sector (up from 39.7% to 41%). However, the overall share of non-profit-making companies went down by 0.7% compared with last year and amounted to 31.2% of all Russian businesses. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region Public Housing & Construction Surveillance Department inspected 4,345,140 m2 of local housing in August 2015 to uncover 2,789 violations of the Housing Code regulations, the department’s press service reports. 1,717 violations had to do with failure to comply with the O&M requirements (including 9 instances of non-compliance with the gas facilities operation requirements, 841 cases of violating the information transparency legislature, 101 instances of failure to provide good quality housing services, 42 instances where

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region Property Fund is putting four state-owned land allotments up to auction, their press service reports. The offer is to rent the said allotments to developers interested in low-rise housing construction. Lot 1: an allotment at 44A Krasnaya St in Gorny Shchit meant for 1,045m2 worth of prospective housing, with a twenty-year rental contract. Lot 2: an allotment in Naberezhnaya St in Severka meant for 908 m2 worth of prospective housing, with a twenty-year rental contract. Lot 3: an allotment at 25/2 Torfyanaya St in Palkinsky Torfyanik

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2015. The overall amount of past-due tax payments, fines, tax penalties, Uniform Social Tax payments, and payments to non-state, non-budgetary funds decreased by 942m RUR, or 2.9% in Sverdlovsk Region last month and thus amounted to 31,566m RUR on September 1, 2015, the local division of Russia's Federal Tax Service reports. This means that the amount of past-due tax payments went down by 516m RUR (2.3%) and came to 22,408m RUR all in all, while that of past-due fines and tax penalties went down by 426m RUR (4.5%) and came to 8,948m RUR altogether.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is about to ship a set of five B14 bulldozers to Vietnam. According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation's press service, the machines have already been assembled, commissioned, and accepted by the customer, whose dealer and representative came to the plant specially for the purpose. The plant's Foreign Sales Director Vladimir Klein says the acceptance tests went through smoothly, so the tractors are now being partially disassembled and packed into shipping containers.