UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. The Russian band N.E.V.A. is going to perform in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District on September 11 as part of the national support festival, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘This new band is already well-known on a national scale; they were among the top five performers on the last day of this year’s Novaya Volna Contest in Sochi,’ the press service says. The festival will appeal to adults and children alike and will run in Akademichesky for the entire day. Starting from 1 PM, a number of interactive entertainment locations will open

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation handed over its 10,000th innovative railcar to Russian Railways’ Federal Freight Company (FGK) in the course of a special ceremony in Nizhniy Tagil; the two parties also signed a memorandum of cooperation, with the intention of working together in the design and development of innovative railcars for Russian railways. According to Ural Vagon Zavod’s press service, the ceremony was attended by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Federal Freight Company Director-General Alexei Taicher, and Ural Vagon Zavod

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Sinara Development is about to complete yet another apartment building in Volgograd’s Novy Svet District, with commissioning scheduled for December. There is a 5% discount on all new homes till October 31, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. ‘The new sixteen-storey building has comfortable elevators, improved entrances, a video surveillance room on the first floor, high ceilings, and panorama windows in the lofts. The hallways are all complete in bright colors and unique patterns, which adds to the comfortable living standards of Novy Svet,’ the Center

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil and the local blood bank coordinated a blood donation day for the first time in the company’s history, the corporation’s press service reports. A portable blood donation station was set up in the square next to Ural Vagon Zavod’s I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture. The idea is to involve as many health-eligible employees in the blood donation movement as possible and possibly persuade them to become regular donors. Head of Nizhniy Tagil Blood Transfusion Station Nelya Petrova thanked the plant’s

UrBC, Moscow, September 12, 2016. Russia’s Labor Ministry is currently working on proposals to further increase the minimum wage amount, Prime refers to Labor Minister Maxim Topilin as saying. ‘As regards the minimum wage, I’d like to point out that the benchmark got raised by 26% this year, and some of the constituencies and employers are already reporting that this is causing a painful increase in their spending. Still, we intend to keep presenting our proposals on further floor wage increase as our team are working on these,’ the Labor Minister said at a meeting dedicated to job safety