UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 28, 2015. The number of available job openings on Yekaterinburg banking market went down by 22% in the third quarter of 2015 compared with a year earlier, HeadHunter reports. September’s figures are also 3% below those for August 2015. This year, Banking is still one of the five segments of Yekaterinburg labor market with the greatest numbers of vacancies (11.9% of the entire market against 13.5% last year). In fact, Banking was the second biggest pool of vacancies, preceded only by Sales. As for the number of CVs/job applications, these make up 4.1% of the city’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 28, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region did not become one of Russia’s five constituencies with the greatest amount of commissioned new housing in January-September 2015. Rosstat reports Moscow Region is the current leader, with 7.2% of all new housing in Russia constructed there. This constituency is followed by Krasnodar Territory (6.8%), Moscow (4.6%), Bashkortostan (3.8%), and Saint Petersburg (3.7%). Sverdlovsk Region and Novosibirsk Region (3.4% each) shared the seventh place on the list, directly after Leningrad Region (3.5%).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 28, 2015. The average price of a liter of gasoline came to 35.03 RUR in Sverdlovsk Region in September 2015, which exceeded the figures for July by 2.12 RUR, Rosstat reports. The average price of AI 92 and AI 95 went up to 34.03 RUR and 36.35 RUR per liter, respectively. That of diesel fuel reached 34.8 RUR. In fact, gas prices increased in seventy-five Russian Federation constituencies: by 1.8% or more in five of them and by 2.8% in Kamchatka Territory. Prices also went down in four constituencies: for one, they declined by 0.9% in Ryazan Region. End-user prices

UrBC, Moscow, October 28, 2015. The Russian Government adopted a decree allocating 15,401,498,000 RUR in subsidies to the agricultural sector; the decree is available on the Cabinet’s website. The money will be directed to the federal constituencies which, in their turn, must distribute the money to reimburse their local farmers on the interest rates they pay on their crop-farming loans. Sverdlovsk Region will be allocated 111.545m RUR, while the neighboring Kurgan Region will receive 113.385m RUR. Belgorod Region, Tatarstan, and Kaliningrad Region will receive the largest subsidies:

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 28, 2015. Healthcare funding provided by Sverdlovsk Region Government as part of the obligatory medical insurance package might be reduced to 3.8bn RUR next year, head of the city council’s Healthcare Department Alexander Dornbush said at Yekaterinburg Duma meeting. According to the Duma’s press service, Dornbush explained that the newly adopted unified gender/age coefficient meant the insurer’s reimbursement would come to 180 RUR per hospital visit, whereas in 2014, the figure came to 210 RUR. Also, the allocated funding for Yekaterinburg clinics and hospitals