UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2018. RSG Akademicheskoye is looking for bidders interested in doing the design and survey work for a tram line linking Akademicheskiy District to the rest of Yekaterinburg. The tram line is to go from Wilhelm de Gennin St to Serafima Deryabina St to Tokarey St to Akademik Sakharov St to Tatischev St. The lot’s starting price is set at RUR 40.1m. The project is seen as two-fold, with the first stage to be completed in May 2018 and the second one in February 2019. Companies can submit their applications and proposals by February 16, 2018.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2018. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) invested over RUR 70m in environmental projects last year, the plant’s Managing Director Alexei Dronov said at a recent meeting of Sverdlovsk Oblast Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs. ‘I see this environmentally-oriented partnership between the city of Pervouralsk and the plant as a very positive one. We did more than RUR 70m worth of projects last year alone. For one, a new emission monitoring unit got installed in town; also, we purchased additional equipment to do soil and discharge tests. We know exactly if

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2018. U.S. Consulate-General in Yekaterinburg will have to cut down on the number of visas to be issued in 2018 due to staff shortage, Consul General Dr. Paul M. Carter, Jr. told RIA Novosti in his recent interview. According to the official, they had to limit the scope of their consular activity (including the processing of visa applications) following the Russian Government’s rather ungrounded decision to lay off some of the diplomatic mission’s staff. As a matter of fact, the consulate did keep working on visa proceedings, renewing applicants’ visas where

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2018. 967 people had to go through personal bankruptcy proceedings in 2017, which exceeded the figures for one year previously by 44%, United Federal Bankruptcy Register’s report states. The number of legal entities declared insolvent last year was 447, which was 8% less than in 2016. In Russia on the whole, 29,876 private individuals and 13,577 businesses were declared bankrupt. This was, respectively, 52% and 8% more than one year previously.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2018. Yekaterinburg Customs and Ural Customs officers and law-enforcement officials inspected a number of local stores to find out that a wholesale children’s products shop was selling pirated FIFA merchandise. According to Yekaterinburg Customs’ press service, the shop was offering two kinds of Football. World Cup board games featuring a football trophy cup. Switzerland-based FIFA is the owner of this registered and protected trademark. It is against the law to make and sell goods with the logo without the trademark owner’s permission. Police officers did the