UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Volchansky subsidiary won the A.K. Gastev Productivity Leader Contest as the Best Lean Investment Project and as the Best Lean Innovative Solutions. According to the corporation’s press service, its subsidiary won the first award because of its great economic efficiency indicators (resulting from the introduction of Lean Production System) and the second one for the development of the plant which happens to be the town’s primary employer and runs plenty of social welfare programs as well as for launching new, high quality

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Youth Club was given a thank-you letter from Sverdlovsk Region Youth Parliament for supporting youth self-government, helping to create Nizhniy Tagil Youth Duma, and proactive implementation of government’s youth policies, the corporation’s press service reports. Oleg Belousov from Mechanical Assembly Department and Olga Antipova from the Metallurgical Department represented the Club in Parliament’s second calling. Belousov chaired the Public Safety Committee and coordinated tens of events aimed at public safety

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2015. The so-called anti-Turkish sanctions are going to affect Sverdlovsk Region more badly than any other constituency in Ural Federal District, Ural Customs indicate. According to their press service, Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, and Tyumen Region were responsible, respectively, for 48%, 36%, and 14% of Russian-Turkish trade turnover. ‘Our trade with Turkey made up 4% of Ural Federal District’s overall trade turnover and amounted to $963.9m this year. Remarkably, more goods were exported to Turkey (5% of overall exports) than were imported to the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2015. Prices on Yekaterinburg existing homes market went down by 0.8% in the last four weeks and came to 71,260 RUR per m2 on average, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. Prices declined most in the city’s fourth most expensive districts, where the price decreased by 0.9%, down to 61,138 RUR per m2 on average. In the third priciest areas, prices went down by 0.7% to 65,609 RUR per m2 on average. As for the second most expensive and the cheapest locations, prices decreased by 0.6% in both cases, down to 75,913 RUR per m2 and 52,701 RUR per m2 on average. The

Russia, Moscow, December 1, 2105. Russia decided not to offer Turkish citizens a visa-free entry starting from January 1, 2016, TASS refers to Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov as announcing after his meeting with Syria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Walid Muallem. ‘I’d like to stress once again that Russia is very, very concerned with the escalation of terrorist threats in the Republic of Turkey. This bears direct effect upon Russia’s and Russians’ safety. Turkey is currently used as a transfer point from which insurgents head in different directions,’ Lavrov said. ‘Much to our regret, the