UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region division of the National Guard of the Russian Federation (Rosgvardiya) came up with a performance report for supervision of private detective and security companies in 2019. According to the division’s press secretary Olga Belskaya, 734 private security companies operate in Sverdlovsk Region at the moment, with 22,415 licensed security staff members/bodyguards. 60,601 buildings/facilities get monitored by these businesses all in all. Additionally, there are 23 private detectives operating in Sverdlovsk Region. Last year, Rosgvardiya

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to start granting new mothers a ‘maternity fund’ for their firstborn could result in the surging supply of small apartments on the housing market, Head of Analytical Department at Ural Real Estate Chamber Mikhail Khorkov states on his Yandex.Zen blog REBURG. ‘The thing is, these payments have only a very limited, if any, effect on the birthrate. The housing market will prove the primary beneficiary of the decision. 86% of families who have already invested their maternity funds did so by directing their money

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s inflation figures increased by 3.7% in December 2019 against one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food prices rose by 2.1%, non-food item prices rose by 3.5%, and the price of services rose by 5.8%. Alcohol grew 0.4% cheaper. Compared with November 2019, the inflation rate in the area came to 0.5% last December.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2020. 87.5% of Sverdlovsk Region’s residents in the 50+ age group feel very skeptical about a comfortable retirement, Sberbank Non-State Retirement Fund’s research findings indicate. Nearly a third of those surveyed (28%) said they wished they had saved up for their retirement. It’s worth noting that 14% of locals are unhappy about their retirement savings, which is the largest percentage in the country. According to Sberbank Non-State Retirement Fund, the share of Russians who did save up for retirement came to under 14% in the last twenty years. Quite a few

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 17, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) now keeps track of its reusable dunnage appliances with the help of RFID chips, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘RFID chips came to replace the older technique of manually labelling an item with paint and barcodes. The goal is to achieve better accounting and inventory of MMK’s reusable dunnage appliances and to ensure end-to-end tracking of the items. This will help us meet our own accounting/tracking requirements and to handle claims with our metal goods customers in case the appliances