UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2019. 48,653 crimes got registered in Sverdlovsk Region in January-October 2019, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 5.4%, Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities report. 50.1% of these were minor crimes and 22% pertained to grave offenses/felonies. 14.5% of crimes involved the use of IT and telecom technologies, including 1,572 crimes that involved bank cards, 877 crimes that involved computers, 291 crimes that involved software, 4,073 crimes that involved the Internet, and 3,338 crimes that involved mobile communication

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2019. As of November 4, 2019, the average asking price on Yekaterinburg existing home market came to RUB 72,519 per m2, down 0.4% on four weeks earlier. According to Ural Real Estate Chamber’s Analytical Department, the number of homes currently for sale rose by 0.1%, or 9,010 units, in the course of one month. The number of rooms in communal apartments on offer dropped by 0.7% in the last four weeks, down to 1,360 units, and the number of homes in the suburbs also declined by 4.9%, down to 685 apartments. It takes about four months on average to sell a place.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2019. MegaFon is now among Russia’s first telecom companies to launch a mobile app for its vPBX service; the app is already available on Play Market and App Store, the company’s press service reports. This means MegaFon Ural’s customers can now track their customer call statistics, change call distribution settings, and analyze the efficiency of their call center’s performance directly on their smartphone. Now Sverdlovsk Region happens to be the Urals’ No.1 constituency in terms of how interested potential customers are in virtual PBX options. ‘Every one in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2019. ChelPipe Group is working on a large-scale investment project to make stainless steel weld-less pipes for nuclear plant steam generators, the company’s press service reports. The goal is to launch new production facilities and upgrade the existing ones at ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ); the project requires over RUB 780m in investments. For one, a new pipe finishing and commissioning line and an automated set of non-destructive testing appliances will get launched at the plant’s Cold-Deformed Pipe Production Unit. Fitted with the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2019. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch finds going back to mentoring practices quite efficient. Now some ten employees received the company’s mentor badges on September 18, thus assuming the responsibility for helping young workers fit in and grow professionally. In late October, an ad hoc committee gathered at the branch’s Deputy Director Arseny Koryakin’s office to look into the preliminary outcomes of the mentorship system. ‘The practices we have gone back to after a long break proved quite efficient. We intend to keep up with the mentorship things, including