UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 27, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant/ChTZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) will deliver seven B11 bulldozers to Russia’s Spetstroy, the Federal Special-Purpose Construction Agency, this October, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The bulldozers will be sent to the agency’s divisions in Izhevsk, Saratov, and the Kurile Islands, namely, Iturup, where one of our vehicles will be used for infrastructure development,’ the press service says. Spetsstroy’s Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk representative Alexander Gromov came to the plant for the acceptance

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 27, 2015. Yekaterinburg food manufacturers supplied 27.772bn worth of produce to their customers in the nine months of 2015, the city council’s press service reports. There are currently seventy-two food-making companies in Yekaterinburg, making bread and pastry, meat and dairy products, and soft drinks. ‘Our customer preference surveys indicate most locals choose to buy locally made foods,’ the press service says.

UrBC, Moscow, October 27, 2015. Novouralsk might no longer be a limited-entry town after January 1, 2016, Russia’s Economic Development Ministry says in the draft bills uploaded on the federal normative acts website. In fact, as many as six Russian cities might lose their special limited-entry status: Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, Zarechny, Pensa Region, Zvezdny, Perm Territory, and Lokomotivny, Chelyabinsk Region. All the technicalities involved are supposed to be dealt with within nine months.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 27, 2015. Under the Russian Government’s program on Boris Yeltsin Ural Federal University’s development in 2010-2020, the university’s funding for the period will be cut by 144m RUR against the original figure. The updated version of the program is now available on the government’s website. The overall budget for the years 2010-2020 now comes to 9.856bn RUR (including 4,98bn RUR to be supplied from the federal budget and 4.876bn RUR expected to be made in terms of profit). Additionally, 12 new monitoring and 7 new performance indicators have been introduced to the

UrBC, Moscow, October 27, 2015. The net profit of Russian companies (excluding small enterprises, banks, insurance companies, and organizations in the civil service sector) is going down; according to Rosstat, the figure went down by 77% in August 2015 compared with one year earlier. Remarkably, Deputy Economics Minister Alexi Vedev said earlier: ‘We have been criticized for our over-optimistic expectations. Yet our net financial outcome is up by 37% in the eight months of 2015 compared with the eight months of 2014.’ Now Kommersant reports the profit growth rate slowed down to 23.9% in