UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating a tender to find the contractor for urban improvements in District Akademicheskiy’s Preobrazhensky Park, the developer’s press service reports. Under the terms of the contract, the contractor will be in charge of urban improvements in Preobrazhensky Park along Blocks 0.5 to 0.8 in District Akademicheskiy’s Quarter 0. Opening bid: RUR 29,999,811. Application deadline is June 22, 2018; the contract obligations must be met by September 2018. Contact us: Tatiana G. Kerber Tel.: +7 (343) 231-18-30 (ext. 7125) E-mail:

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region division of the federal consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor inspected websites of 227 local hotels and made unscheduled checks of 283 hotels to determine sixteen cases of overcharging, the agency’s press service reports. Now the Russian Government set up certain upper price limits on the game dates for the hotels operating in the World Football Championship-hosting cities. Following the checks, the Maxim Hotel Ural, the Hotel Sky, and the Evrazia had to face administrative liability based on Article 14.6 (Part 1) of the Administrative

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. 499,470 electronic third party liability car insurance policies got issued in Ural Federal District in the first five months of the year (compared with 565,202 policies in the entire year 2017). As recently as 2016, only 17,231 e-policies got issued all in all, the Bank of Russia’s Ural division’s press service reports. The number of e-policy contracts for third party liability car insurance keeps rising by the month since the beginning of January: 73,461 e-policies got issued in January, 85,776 in February, 110,520 in March, and 139,485 in April. Sverdlovsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. The average asking price of an existing home went up by 2% (from RUR 71,400 to RUR 72,900 per m2) on Yekaterinburg market between the beginning of the year and this month, the press service of the online estate service N1.RU reports. According to N1.RU’s analysts, the average asking price rose mainly due to larger apartments growing more expensive: the price of two- and multiple-bedroom homes started gradually rising as early as last year. Centrally located apartments and those in District Parkovy are getting pricier the fastest. ‘Luxury apartments enter the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. Strong winds (up to 25 m/sec) and heavy showers and hail are expected in Sverdlovsk Region, the weather service Gidromettzentr reports. ‘Wind speed is expected to reach as much as 25 m/sec or more in some locations on June 6; we are also in for large-scale hail storms and heavy showers,’ the service warns. The Ministry of Emergencies suggests locals stay out as little as possible. ‘You’ll be safe from the hail and the storms inside a house, an apartment, a car, or any sort of weather shelter. It is advisable to take care of your pets or poultry and place