UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 28, 2018. SIM cards will now be contributing to traffic safety: the Ural division of Russia’s Transport Ministry’s Security Service Administration and the telecommunications provider MegaFon announced they were going to work together, MegaFon’s press service reports. MegaFon is now the selected high-speed mobile Internet service provider for the Administration. Their contract is valid through December 1, 2020. ‘The Russian Transport Ministry’s Security Service Administration officers work to ensure safety at all the key transport facilities throughout the country,

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, March 28, 2018. First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch piggybacked some 14,000,000 kg of cargo in January-February 2018, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 18%, the company press service reports. The increase was due to the branch working together with the key local freight owners: the concrete goods plant ZhBI 74 and the bridge structures manufacturer KurganStalMost; the company also attracted a number of new consignors. ‘We landed a contract with one of the Southern Urals’ largest construction companies in February. The plant makes unique precast

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 28, 2018. The international hotel chain Park Inn by Radisson no longer operates in Nizhniy Tagil, UralVagonZavod Corporation’s Corporate Communications Director Dmitri Kalinichenko confirmed Tuesday. ‘UralVagonZavod’s press service announces the two parties’ decision to stop doing business together was mutual. There is no one, decisive reason for this. There have probably been a number of factors at play. UralVagonZavod invested millions of rubles in the hotel site, but the company’s new management found out the hotel was partially owned by a number of private

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 28, 2018. No more potatoes will get imported to Sverdlovsk Region from the largest supplier country Egypt starting March 23, 2018. As Sverdlovsk Region division of Rosselkhoznadzor explained to UrBC, the ban applies to potatoes from any part of the exporter country. The ban was imposed after a brown rot agent had been detected in a shipment of Egyptian potatoes. According to the division, this quarantined shipment poses a threat to crop cultivation areas. Rosselkhoznadzor’s local division also said Egypt was one of Sverdlovsk Region’s largest potato importers,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 28, 2018. Cheese, butter, and canned dairy foods were the products that got adulterated most often in Sverdlovsk Region last year, the local division of Rospotrebnadzor (the consumer rights watchdog) states. For one, 34.7% of locally sold butter turned out to be adulterated (compared with 31.5% in 2016), as well as 22.1% of cheese (compared with 18.5% in 2016). The percentage of adulterated canned meat was 41.8%, which is less than in 2016 (55.3%), but still alarmingly high. As for canned dairy foods, 29.8% of locally sold items turned out to be adulterated last