UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 23, 2018. Russians living in the Urals now spend more time online when traveling abroad: according to MegaFon’s press service, Sverdlovsk Region-based international travelers used twice as much Internet traffic in June 2018 as they did one year earlier. This amount of data would be enough to view a thirty-day long video non-stop. Sverdlovsk Region-based tourists downloaded/uploaded the equivalent of 500 movies when they were abroad in June. Those based in Tyumen Region came second in this ‘race’ and downloaded/uploaded the amount of data roughly comparable to 55,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 23, 2018. International football fans purchased RUR 943.8m worth of goods within the tax free system in Russia during the World Football Championship days this year; they had 11,300 receipts issued to them, RIA Novosti refers to the Federal Customs Service as stating. The Chinese visitors spent the most and made up 70.8% of all customers. Mexican nationals come second, as they made up 2.8% of all customers, followed by the football fans from Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Qatar, and Vietnam (2.1%, 1.94%, 1.25%, 1.1%, and 1%, respectively). Most of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 23, 2018. Rosatom’s Ural Electromechanical Plant/UEMZ in Yekaterinburg recently underwent civilian goods production audit by France’s Schneider Electric SAS and Russia’s Rusatom-Elektronika (RASU). According to RASU’s press service, the audit was necessary in order for the company’s electro-technical produce to enter the international market. It was determined that UEMZ is organizationally fit to make USG — Ural Switchgears low voltage electrical devices that meet all of the EU and the IEC requirements. The devices are used within electric power supply systems as

UrBC, Moscow, July 23, 2018. Russian travelers tend to prefer international vacations this summer and mostly head for countries where no entry visa is required, tutu.ru reports. Turkey remains the most popular destination as always: the share of Russians going there in the summer rose from 19.91% last year to 28.21% in 2018. Greece comes next on the list, even though its share dropped from 8.8% down to 7.54%. Cyprus is No. 3 this year; its share of travelers increased from 3.66% to 6.34%. Trips to Armenia grew 62% more expensive in the course of one year and now cost RUR 22,600 for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 23, 2018. Ural Mining & Metallurgical Company’s Bogoslovsky Plant will have to pay RUR 420,000 in fines after an electrician got killed in their Severo-Peschanskaya Mine, Sverdlovsk Region division of the State Labor Inspectorate’s website states. The accident occurred on May 4, 2018. The worker fell down from a height and died of injuries. ‘It was determined that poor organization of labor was the main cause of the accident,’ the website says. The ensuing investigation revealed a number of violations of Article 5.27.1 of the Russian Federation Administrative