UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2019. China’s Consul-General in Yekaterinburg Geng Liping’s term in office has come to an end, so the official is leaving after nearly three years at the consulate, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. During her last work meeting with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Liping commented on the highly professional interregional dialogue Sverdlovsk Region and China managed to establish; she also stressed that she personally liked the area very much. According to Liping, she found working in the Urals very comfortable and very

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2019. The asking prices on Yekaterinburg’s existing home market currently come to RUB 72,611 per m2 on average, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s research indicates. The mean asking price rose by 0.2% in the last four weeks. ‘The number of homes on offer has remained almost the same as earlier and now comes to 8,870 apartments/rooms/houses. The number of homes in the suburbs/countryside dropped by 1.2%. The number of rooms on offer at the moment rose by 0.3%. It now takes slightly longer than earlier to sell a place (a little over four moths),’ the report states.

UrBC, Moscow, July 24, 2019. The most typical pay a worker in Russia gets is RUB 23,500 a month as of April 2019, Izvestia reports. This is the so-called modal income (i.e. the one that occurs most often) for Russians in the workforce. 15% to 20% of all Russia-based workers in gainful employment made this much in April 2019. Most of the experts the newspaper turned to for comment agree that this is the figure that reflects the people’s actual income levels best (unlike the mean income figures that the government officials like so much: RUB 47,700 in April 2019, according to the Federal State

UrBC, Moscow, July 24, 2019. Russia’s migrant inflow reached a ten-year high in January-April 2019 and came to 98,000 people altogether. This looks anomalous, RIA Novosti refers to the Gaidar Institute and RANEPA’s report on the economic situation in Russia as indicating. According to the report, the net migration figures soared from 57,100 people in January-April 2018 to as many as 98,000 people in January-April 2019. All in all, 281,600 people came to Russia in January-April 2019, whereas only 177,300 people did so one year earlier. The number of people leaving the country has remained

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 24, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) held its fourth annual Supplier of The Year 2018 Contest this month; the goal is to acknowledge and encourage suppliers’ work and help them keep improving, the company’s press service says. MMK’s Director-General Pavel Shilyayev took part in the awarding ceremony at MMK’s Conference Hall. ‘Awarding the company’s best suppliers around Metallurgist’s Day has grown into a great tradition. We are working with more than 1,100 suppliers at the moment. A functional relationship with its suppliers is one of the key factors in