UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 21, 2020. 413 entities operating without a banking license got detected within the Central Bank’s Ural division’s jurisdiction in 2019; the better part of these (over 80%) were lending money illegally, the division’s press service reports. The number of uncovered loan sharks was at its highest in Perm Territory (104), Sverdlovsk Region (90), Chelyabinsk Region (86), and Bashkortostan (52). The Bank of Russia forwarded the case files to public prosecution authorities, the Internal Affairs Ministry, the Federal Tax Service, and the Federal Antimonopoly Service for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 21, 2020. A job with a work-from-home option pays RUB 35,000 a month on average on Yekaterinburg labor market, Avito Rabota’s research findings indicate. ‘The number of search engine queries involving teleworking rose by 12% in 2019 compared with the year 2018. The number of CVs from candidates looking for remote work rose by 9.6%, whilst the number of respective job openings dropped by 1.1%. Candidates expect to make RUB 26,000 a month on average, whereas employers generally offer around RUB 35,000 a month,’ the research states. ‘This CV/job listing dynamics in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 21, 2020. Ural Airlines will start operating a new Europe-bound flight from Moscow Region’s Zhukovsky Airport (Zhukovsky-Milan-Zhukovsky) on March 31, 2020. According to the company’s press service, the flight will get operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays on up-to-date Airbus liners. Departure (Zhukovsky): 11 AM Departure (Milan): 2:30 PM ‘Prices start from RUB 3,754/€54 for Zhukovsky-Milan flights; from RUB 5,646/€80 for Milan-Zhukovsky ones; and from RUB 9,400/€134 for Zhukovsky-Milan-Zhukovsky ones,’ the company says. All fees and charges are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 21, 2020. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch has almost completed rebuilding two out of nine production lines; the upgrades will result in a much more powerful unified dust-exhaust system, the company’s press service says. ‘The number of modern sock filters at the department that hosts the reconstructed production lines will soon reach eleven. Seven filters get installed anew, in a single block that will have its own roof. In the end, the entire filtering system will grow twice as powerful as prior to the upgrades: 165,000 m3 of air per hour,’ the company says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 21, 2020. A public council has been set up under Head of Yekaterinburg’s Leninsky Council in order to ensure discussion on the vital local issues; the council is expected to meet on a regular basis. Head of Leninsky Council Dmitri Nozhenko, Sverdlovsk Region’s Legislative Assembly Vice Chair Viktor Maslakov, Head of Leninsky Territorial Electoral Commission Irina Pyatkova, Chair of the local Veterans’ Council Elena Trubitsyna, and the housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye’s Director-General Viktor Krivosheyin all joined the council as members and attended the