UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) inspected 7,700 kg of fish in the first half of 2016; 2,200 kg, or 28.7% of these failed quality tests, the agency’s press service reports. For one, 500 kg of fish failed to comply with normative requirements and 1,600 kg did not have the right identification stamps; also, 50 kg of fish were adulterated. Rospotrebnadzor officers inspected, among other things, 1,900 cans of fish, of which 700 cans failed quality tests (including the 600 cans that did not comply with the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) inspected 16,300 kg of dairy foods in the first half of 2016; 2,500 kg, or 15.1% of these failed quality tests (compared with 24.6% in the first half of 2015), the agency’s press service reports. ‘The faulty items are the same ones as last year: these are the foods that fail to comply with the existing normative requirements, technological quality requirements, and adulteration checks,’ the press service says. Rospotrebnadzor picked and inspected 316 dairy food samples

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2016. Asking prices have decreased by 3.4% on Yekaterinburg existing home market since the start of the year. The figures kept going down in the first five months of the year and stopped declining by the beginning of summer, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s research findings indicate. As of September 26, 2016, the average per-square-meter asking price came to 68,359 RUR, which was 5.6% less than one year earlier and 10.9% less than in February 2015 (the price peak so far). The price decrease was most noticeable in the city’s remotest and least expensive locations,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2016. EVRAZ Cup football championship was held among children born in 2008 and 2009 in Nizhniy Tagil for the first time this year, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The event came after a company championship involving the holding’s employees that is held in Kachkanar, Sverdlovsk Region, every year. Eight teams from three Sverdlovsk Region towns (Verkhnyaya Salda, Kachkanar, Nizhniy Tagil) competed against one another, with some twenty games held at Vysokogorets Stadium in the course of one day. In between the games, anyone could try to score with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2016. Tankprom 3, an All-Russian research-to-practice conference, will be held at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Culture Palace in Nizhniy Tagil on October 4-6. The conference is part of special celebrations: the corporation’s head plant was founded eighty years ago this month, the company press service reports. The event is coordinated by Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation and co-organized by Moscow-based Amnit (an association for the development of scientific and technological museums), S. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the