UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 7, 2017. Over 130m RUR will be directed from the obligatory medical insurance fund to finance Sverdlovsk Region’s clinics. The decision was made at the obligatory medical insurance committee’s recent meeting, Sverdlovsk Region Information Policy Department reports. ‘This increase in funding was made possible due to extra money allocated from Sverdlovsk Region’s budget in June. Nearly 50% of the subsidized amount (954m RUR) will be transferred to our outpatient medical units before the end of the year. We believe this will both make primary medical care more

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 7, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s subscribers went to 161 different countries this summer, the company press service reports. According to MegaFon’s analysts, men tend to head for more exotic locations, while women seem to prefer pilgrimage routes. ‘The number of those who went abroad in May, June, and July rose by 40% compared with last summer. Brazil, Azerbaijan, and Iran proved ‘male-dominated’, as 70% of travelers were men. Women go to Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and Iceland, with the proportion of female travelers at 60%,’ they say. ‘Our customers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 7, 2017. The average asking price comes to 66,300 RUR per m2 on Yekaterinburg existing home market at the moment, which is 0.2% less than one month earlier and 13.6% less than in February 2016, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s report states. Centrally located apartments grew 1.7% less expensive in the last four weeks and can now be had for 94,983 RUR per m2. Those in the city’s remotest districts grew 1.8% less expensive, with the asking price at 47,612 RUR per m2 on average. Homes in the city’s fourth most expensive locations grew 0.4% cheaper, with the asking price at

UrBC, Moscow, August 7, 2017. The number of housing construction fraud victims rose to 46,000 people, RIA Novosti refers to Russia’s Construction & Public Utilities Minister Mikhail Men as stating. According to Men, all these people are now on the special federal and regional help lists. Sixty-nine Russian federal constituencies have been affected, even though most of the fraud victims are based in only ten of them. A special information system will be launched in Russia early next year to provide data on all the housing construction projects not yet commissioned. The system will be

UrBC, Moscow, August 7, 2017. Russia needs 22,200 more physicians, GPs, and pediatrists at the moment to meet the population’s healthcare needs. According to Zdorovie Fund, this is twice as many people as the Health Minister Veronica Skvortsova said were needed at her meeting with President Vladimir Putin on August 1. According to Skvortsova, the medical staff shortage was estimated at about 10,700 doctors. The fund reports things are getting worse by the year. The overall number of physicians, general practitioners, and pediatrists shrank by 888 people between 2015 and 2016. There is also