UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2016. 2,467 people living in Sverdlovsk Region were officially warned that their driver’s licenses could get annulled if they have more than 10,000 RUR worth of debts, the local division of Russia’s Federal Service of Court Officers reports. ‘First court warrants limiting their driving rights have already been given to twenty-two debtors; fourteen of them owe money in terms of unpaid child support (2.256m RUR altogether) and eight have failed to pay damages for the infliction of emotional distress (755,000 RUR altogether). The amendments to the Federal

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2016. Over 1,600 illegal immigrants got deported by Sverdlovsk Region’s court officers last year; this figure exceeds that for a year earlier by 36%. It is reported most of the deported subjects come from Tajikistan (648 people), Uzbekistan (595 people), and Kyrgyzstan (309 people); the rest come from Azerbaijan (24 people), Armenia (15 people), China (25 people), and Kazakhstan (11 people) and Moldavia, Georgia, Vietnam, Turkey, Byelorussia, Turkmenistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Serbia, and Ukraine. ‘There were no emergencies in the process of transferring the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2016. Up to 30% of electric power supplied to Sverdlovsk Region-based end users do not meet the existing quality requirements, Head of Rosstandart’s local division Svetlana Mikheyeva announced at a press conference. Under the current GOST 13109-97 standard, the electric power supply must stay within certain frequency and voltage range as well as within given (un)sinusoidality and voltage (un)balance parameters and show control over its voltage impulse and overload. ‘End users complain about the poor quality electric power supply a lot, while Sverdlovsk Region

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s businesses and organizations owed their employees 8.378m RUR in delayed wages and salaries as of January 1, 2016, Sverdlovskstat reports. This was 19.9% more than one month earlier. Four companies are reported to provide these data to Sverdlovskstat all in all.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2016. The TV channel Techno24 recently aired another episode of its Polygon Show on Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s upgraded T 72B3 tanks. The company press service reports the shooting took place at Omsktransmash production premises, at a shooting range in Svetly, and at the corporation’s own testing site. ‘While in Omsk, the camera crew had time to learn about the upgrade process in all the detail and even to contribute to it. People at the plant were eager to answer their questions, share their experience, and help the show presenter master the jobs of a