UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. The vegetables harvested in Sverdlovsk Region after the first low temperatures won’t last long, Deputy DG of Belorechensky Irina Nadezhdina told UrBC. Based on the weather forecast, the first cold nights are to be expected on October 9-10. In the meantime, some potatoes, vegetables, and crops are still in the ground. The over-moist soil makes it impossible to proceed with the harvesting process, so the remaining yield will have to face the frost. ‘Whatever has been affected by the frost won’t get preserved well. These vegetables will have to be sold

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. The number of vacancies available on Yekaterinburg job market shrank by 20% in the last year, E1. Rabota and Zarplata.ru report. The market is gradually recovering, however: the number of job openings rose by 8% in the third quarter of the year compared with the second quarter. ‘There are currently two candidates per job opening in Yekaterinburg, with the number of CVs in the system up by15%,’ says Zarplata.ru’s PR Manager Olga Pavlyuchenko. In the third quarter of 2015, most vacancies advertised were in such sectors as transport, car industry,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. The international passenger traffic at Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport dropped by 26.8% between January and September 2015 and thus came to 1.24m people, the airport press service reports. The overall traffic to Antalya, Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, Larnaka, Barcelona, Rimini, and destinations in Greece declined by 20% in the three quarters of the year. Domestic passenger traffic came to 2.9m people, up 14% on a year earlier. The number of passengers travelling to the Black Sea rose by 4.8 times for Simferopol, 80% for Sochi, 10.6% for Krasnodar, and 1.2%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. Central Stadium will be renamed Yekaterinburg Arena in time for the world football championship of 2018, Interfax refers to Russia 2018 Committee as saying. 12 stadiums in different parts of Russia will host the World Cup games; eight of them will be renamed after the cities they are located in. The new names of the remaining four stadiums will have to do with important local cultural or football events. Russia’s Sports Ministry suggested earlier that Central Stadium should be called the Urals. However, the championship committee decided against this

UrBC, Nizhniy Tagil, October 9, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation keeps introducing a risk management and internal control system within its member enterprises. The launch process is now at its third stage, where the results of key risks assessment must be looked at and discussed. The company’s top-tier managers gathered together at the corporation’s head plant to join in the discussion, the company press service reports. First, a workshop on risk management and internal control was conducted for heads of Corporate Governance Center in Nizhniy Tagil. Then, a group of risk managers from a