UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2020. 43% of Yekaterinburg-based respondents said in a survey that they kept working as usual at their workplaces throughout the week; 27% of those surveyed work from home. Only 19% of Yekaterinburg residents said their employer really did give them a week off, zarplata.ru’s recent survey findings indicate. ’51% of respondents say they were promised to get their pay in full, while 9% expect to get paid less than usual. 13% of those who did get a week off said this was an unpaid leave situation; 27% simply don’t even know what course of action their employer will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2020. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky called for the development of the city’s general construction plan for 2021-2041, the town council’s press service reports. Following the public hearings on the general construction plan, the authorities decided to shift the strategic planning timeframe from 2035 to 2041 and to keep working on a revised version of the plan. City planners, architects, investors, and members of the general public will all contribute to the discussion on the project, which is meant to be a product of social consensus and to account

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2020. Nine more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sverdlovsk Region; the total number of patients thus reached 33, стопкоронавирус.рф reports. 500 new cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Russia in the last twenty-four hours; total number of cases inside the country currently comes to 2,337.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2020. KORTROS Group’s housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye, which keeps putting up Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy within the framework of a comprehensive area development project, extended the deadline for its mortgage-from-1.9%-a-year offer till the end of April, the company’s press service reports. The special offer comes from RSG-Akademicheskoye and Metcombank and applies to a range of newly commissioned apartment buildings in District Akademicheskiy’s Preobrazhensky Quarter (Blocks 05, 06, 07, and 08) and Blizky Quarter (26.1.1 and 26.2). ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2020. The Board of Directors at ChelPipe Group (which currently comprises three independent directors) and BOD Chair Andrei Komarov held an extraordinary meeting to consider and adopt a concept for the development of a risk management system, the company’s press service reports. The concept focuses on further improvements in the risk management system in full compliance with the best global practices and sets out a risk matrix for the year 2020, with all the potential adjustments, in order to help the business remain stable even on a volatile market and during a