UrBC, Moscow, December 2, 2015. 1.2m new cars were sold on the Russian market between January and October 2015, which was 34% less than a year earlier, Avtostat reports. Russian customers spent 1.46m trillion RUR on new automobiles this year so far (down 21% on the ten months of 2014), whereas the price of a car went up by 19.7% and came to 1.181m RUR on average. The price of foreign cars rose by 21.3% up to 1.343m RUR on average, that of Russian cars increased less noticeably, by 17.3%, and came to 504,000 RUR on average. Avtostat Director Sergei Tselikov believes Russian customers will have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region only came 12th on the list of Russian constituencies with the greatest number of press kiosks, the Association of Russia’s Printed Press Distributors’ press service reports. The association reports there is one such kiosk per 3,836 people in the area, as opposed to the required one kiosk per every 2,500 people. Kaliningrad Region was at the top of the rating (one kiosk per 2,197 people), followed by Chelyabinsk Region (one kiosk per 2,489 people) and Mari El (one kiosk per 2,696 people). Things look bleakest in Chechnya, Altai, Adygeia,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2015. The number of jobs on Yekaterinburg labor market went up by 1% in November 2015, HeadHunter Ural reports. Most job openings are in the Housekeeping, Science & Education, Art & Media, and Tourism, Hotels, Restaurants segments. ‘The number of vacancies went up in most professional areas with the exception of Insurance (-27%), Sports Clubs & Fitness (-27%), and Accounting (-24%),’ says HeadHunter Ural’s head of press department Maria Zabotina. As for job-seekers, the number of CVs submitted into the system increased by 40% in November compared

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region authorities are going to sell 2.7bn RUR worth of state-run enterprises’ shares by auction next year, Sverdlovsk Region Public Property Management Minister Alexei Pyankov said at a Legislative Assembly meeting. According to Pyankov, the constituency expects these enterprises to bring 3.7bn RUR in revenues. 2.7bn RUR are to result from selling shares of companies such as Pervouralsk and Nizhniy Tagil printing offices, Sverdlovsk Poultry Factory, and Kuryi Health Resort. Sverdlovsk Region Government actually preferred to keep its stake in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2015. 135 customers called consumer rights hotlines in the four weeks after all air travel to Egypt was banned with queries on the Egyptian tours they had booked, Rospotrebnadzor’s Sverdlovsk Region division reports. Experts from Sverdlovsk Region Hygiene & Epidemiology Center helped their clients file three court claims relating to reimbursement of their cancelled trips and three complaints addressed to travel agents. The same kind of advice is now available for customers who booked their trips to Turkey.