UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 11, 2016. A play based on Alexander Gelman’s We, The Undersigned will be presented in A.S. Pushkin theater in Moscow on September 19. This play was originally performed at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in celebration of the company’s 80th anniversary. ‘We are happy to see this play acquire a life of its own,’ says Ural Vagon Zavod Deputy Director-General Alexei Zharich. According to the company press service, the play will be produced by the original cast involved in the Nizhniy Tagil first night performance. Russian actors Andrei Kuzichev, Anna

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 11, 2016. The amount of ferrous metal shipments handled by Sverdlovsk Railways in July 2016 dropped by 8.5%, down to 5.6m tons, against one year earlier, the company press service reports. Also, chemical and mineral fertilizer shipments dropped by 9.7% (down to 7.5m tons), timber shipments by 5.7% (down to 5.7m tons), iron and manganese ore shipments by 4.9% (down to 7.3m tons), chemicals and soda shipments by 4.2% (down to 2.2m tons), scrap ferrous metal shipments by 1.9% (down to 1.4m tons), and cement shipments by 0.9% (down to 1.5m tons). All in all, Sverdlovsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 11, 2016. A statistically average Yekaterinburg-based family will have to keep saving up for two years and one month before they can make a down payment on a new one-bedroom apartment, real estate-related website N1.RU claims. The calculations were based on the following: the average monthly pay in the area (40,886 RUR), the minimum living wage (10,638 RUR a month), average monthly per capita spending (17,651 RUR), the average price of a new one-bedroom home (3,829,800 RUR) and its average area (61 m2), and the down payment amount (20% of the total cost). Since new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 11, 2016. The government might lift the ban on Turkish foods import before the end of the year, Rossiyskaya Gazeta refers to Russia’s Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev as stating. However, Turkish foods must be inspected for safety and compliance with Rosselkhoznadzor standards first, the minister said. The embargo was introduced on January 1, 2016. Among the banned foods were poultry, salt, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, cauliflower, broccoli, fresh and dried citrus fruits, apples, pear,s apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, grapes, and strawberries.

UrBC, Moscow, August 11, 2016. Gazprom’s shareholder-related net profit (calculated in accordance with the International Accounting Standards) went down by 5.18% in the first quarter of 2016 against the last quarter of 2015 and reached 362.209bn RUR, Prime reports. The company’s sales revenues rose by 5.4%, up to 1.737 trillion RUR (compared with 1.648 trillion RUR one year earlier). Sales profit dropped by 34.16% and came to 301.973bn RUR.