UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s debt reached 66.5bn RUR on January 1, 2016, the local Cabinet’s official website states. The figure came to 48.2bn RUR as recently as on October 1, 2106, which means the debt amount went up by over 18bn RUR in the last quarter of 2015. This year’s budget sets the upper limit for the administration of internal state debt at 5.5bn RUR.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2016. The number of visitors at Sverdlovsk Region’s ski resorts was considerably less impressive during the New Year break this year than a year earlier because of cold weather, Gora Listvennaya Ski Resort informs UrBC. ‘We grew more popular after Turkey and Egypt became unavailable, but the outside temperature was too low for skiing between January 2 and January 7, so we only had 350 to 500 coming in every day instead of the usual 1,200 to 1,300. It was only on January 9-10 that the good weather set in and the number of customers rose back to normal,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2016. Yekaterinburg Council issued 891 construction permits for 3.051m m2 worth of buildings last year. The city council’s press service reports permits were issued for 133 apartment buildings (1.5m m2), 298 low-rise buildings and private houses (121,000 m2), and 460 non-residential buildings (1.43m m2). In 2014, 765 permits for 2.873m m2 worth of buildings got issued by the council. Also, 189 apartment buildings (3.2m m2 all in all) are currently under construction.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2016. Yekaterinburg proved one of this year’s top ten tourist places according to a rating Travel.ru created using the hotel booking data for January 11-December 31, 2016. Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Kaliningrad, Perm, Nizhniy Novgorod, and Saratov also made it to this list of Russia’s most popular cities. This year, travelers have booked an average of 3.5 nights (3,700 RUR per night) in Yekaterinburg. The price of a hotel stay in other cities comes to 2,800 RUR per night in Saint Petersburg, 3,400 RUR in Moscow, and 5,700 RUR in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2016. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) introduced a 1% quota for workers under eighteen (including orphans and children experiencing socioeconomic difficulties) in accordance with Nizhniy Novgorod Region’s legislation. The company press service reports a sixteen-year-old was hired as an assistant at the Power Equipment Department on January 12, 2106. ‘Our team welcomed the new employee to the company in the course of a special ceremony. Under the Federal Children’s Rights Protection Act, he