UrBC, Moscow, May 21, 2019. Some two hundred people took part in Raspadskaya’s job counseling forum for high school, vocational school, and college students in Mezhdurechensk; the event was coordinated by EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company, their PR Department reports. Students from ten different schools in Mezhdurechensk, students of T. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University’s local subsidiary, Mezhdurechensk Mining & Construction School, and Tom-Usinsky Energy & Transportation School all came to the forum. ‘The forum opened with a movie about Raspadskaya, one of Russia’s

UrBC, Moscow, May 21, 2019. Russia’s used car market amounted to 482,200 automobiles in April 2019, which exceeded the figures for April 2018 by 8.6%, Autostat reports. The Russian brand LADA remains the absolute market leader: more than 25% of used cars sold in April (123,000 units) were LADA makes. This is, in fact, 6.6% more than one year earlier. As for foreign-made cars, the Japanese brand Toyota, with 52,800 used cars sold last month (+4.8% on a year earlier), was No.1, followed by another Japanese brand Nissan (27,300 units, up 10.9% on a year earlier), and the Korean brands Hyundai

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May21, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region’s sheep and goat stock decreased by 4.1%, or 2,700 head of cattle in April 2019 compared with April 2018, that is, from 66,400 down to 63,700. The cattle stock also dropped by 0.8%, or 2,000 head of cattle, that is, from 266,300 down to 264,300, Sverdlovskstat reports. The overall number of cows declined by 0.5%, or 600 head of cattle (from 116,200 down to 115,600). Sverdlovsk Region’s pig stock rose by 3.1%, or 10,700 pigs (from 346,100 up to 356,800); the poultry stock rose by 0.7%, or 100 chickens/ducks (from 13,400 up to 13,500).

UrBC, Moscow, May 21, 2019. Russian employers owed their workers nearly RUB 2.9 billion in delayed wages and salaries as of early April 2019; approximately the same amount of wage arrears also got paid out in the first two months of the year, Interfax refers to Russian Vice Premier Tatiana Golikova as stating. ‘The Russian Government made a drop in wage arrears its special priority. According to our latest data, the overall amount of delayed wages and salaries reached RUB 2.9 billion on April 1, 2019. At the same time, RUB 2.9 billion got paid to 68,000 employees in January and February

UrBC, Moscow, May 21, 2019. Russia’s Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) sees no problem with a potential ban on selling alcohol to customers under 21 years of age, head of the service’s Control & Finance Department Vladimir Mishelovin told RNS. According to Mishelovin, as the service that protects fair competition, the FAS can see no threats to competition in this case. Should such a decision be made, the service sees no problem with this whatsoever. Mishelovin says the decision to prohibit the sale of alcohol to people under 21 should be taken on the national level after a large-scale