UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. Residents of Yekaterinburg have failed to pay 4.519 RUR worth of housing bills by March 1, 2016, the city council’s press service reports. In fact, only 89% of all the housing bills got paid in January and February 2016. In the meantime, the figure stood at 95.79% throughout the year 2015. ‘Unpaid housing bills put the entire supply system in jeopardy and might result in operation problems. We are now taking all the available legal steps to encourage the debtors to pay,’ the press service says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. The price of gasoline on Sverdlovsk Region market came to 34.35 RUR per liter on average this February, Rosstat reports. AI-92 and A-95 now cost 33.46 RUR and 35.88 RUR per liter, respectively, while diesel fuel grew slightly less expensive and now comes for 36.22 RUR per liter. On average, gasoline prices rose by 9.7% in February in sixteen federal constituencies (the price increase ranging from 0.2% in Tyumen Region to 18.6% in Omsk Region). In Yakutia, gas prices remained the same as in January, while in Sakhalin Region and in Leningrad Region, prices

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. A new system for metal spending control has been introduced at EVRAZ NTMK converter shop. The goal is to make the steel-smelting process more economically efficient, the company press service reports. ‘To make sure we can control the amount of metal used, electronic weighing equipment remains active throughout the entire production process. The first round of weighing occurs at the mixer stage, where a load of metal is placed onto a scaling platform. The amount of product is then checked again at the converter department and then again in the pouring

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. Ural Airlines operated this year’s first Yekaterinburg-Rome flight the other day, the air carrier’s press service reports. 125 passengers flew from Yekaterinburg to the Italian capital on March 27, 2016. ‘The sky was overcast in Rome, but, according to the weather forecast, the sun will soon come out and travelers will be able to enjoy the city in all its grandeur. The Trevi Fountain, the Coliseum, the Spanish Steps, St. Peter’s Basilica, and other famous landmarks are awaiting their admirers,’ the press service says. Ural Airlines operates scheduled

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil held an auditors’ meeting, the company press service reports. The workshop was attended by internal auditors from fifteen of the corporation’s member enterprises, including UVZ-Logistik (Moscow), TzNIIM (Saint Petersburg), Electromachines (Chelyabinsk), Plant 9 (Yekaterinburg), and Ural Vagon Zavod (Nizhniy Tagil). This was one of the steps on the way to introducing an internal audit system at Ural Vagon Zavod Scientific & Production Corporation. For two days, the auditors looked into the way