UrBC, Moscow, December 11, 2015. Russian end consumers’ unpaid electricity and heating bills amounted to more than 850bn RUR by early October, Deputy Energy Minister Vyacheslav Kravchenko said in his interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. ‘This is a lot of money that, if it were paid, could be directed to complete renovation of the entire infrastructure, and some of it would even still be left for social welfare projects,’ the official says. Now Russia’s Deputy Construction & Housing Services Minister Andrei Chibis said in August that the unpaid housing and utility bills came to more than 1

UrBC, Moscow, December 11, 2015. The overall number of cars imported to Russia between January and October 2015 decreased by 52% (down to 288,000 units) compared with a year earlier, Avtostat reports. The number of cars imported from the CIS member states came to 11,700, that of cars imported from the rest of the world came to 276,300. The automobiles’ consolidated cost amounted to $5.38bn. The imported truck market shrank even more: only 16,700 trucks were imported into the country, down 69.5% on a year earlier. Their total cost was estimated at $672.1m. As for the export figures, these

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 11, 2015. Local doctors’ pay went down by 1.5% between October 2014 and October 2015, Sverdlovskstat reports. Salaries in the healthcare sector decreased by 0.2% compared with the start of the year, with the average monthly pay dropping down to 29,453 RUR. Last year, the average pay figures stood at over 30,000 RUR a month. In the meantime, salaries in the scientific research sector and in the academia also declined by 3.1%, while those in the construction sector declined by 1.3% over the last twelve months.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 11, 2015. The number of vacancies on Yekaterinburg job market went down by 15% in November 2015 compared with a year earlier, while the number of CVs rose by 21%, Superjob.ru reports. The number of vacancies in the logistics and maintenance sector decreased by 30% compared with a year earlier, that in the law sector by 27%. At the same time, there are now 28% more job openings in marketing and advertising and 13% more in the purchasing sector. Also, the number of vacancies rose by 17% in the insurance sector, by 14% in the raw stuffs industry, and by 10% in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 11, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) signed a dealership agreement with Peru-based Vostok-Sur Export-Import. The company will be in charge of supplying tractors to Peru, the corporation’s press service reports. The contract was signed in Peru. Under the agreement, the dealer will now promote Chelyabinsk vehicles on the Peruvian market and provide after-sale services. Bulldozers and tractors will be shipped to South Africa in sea containers, which will cut delivery costs and guarantee the tractors arrive safe