The Kurgan magazine "Ochevidets", the portal "Ochevidets-Media", completed its next project - "The Most Influential Persons of the Kurgan Region", which was carried out with the information support of "URA.Ru". Over the course of three weeks, Internet users and members of the expert council chose the most influential people in politics and business, as well as in public life. The list of contenders for the title of “most influential person” in the region was very extensive.

The leaders of party factions in the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region, invited to the E2E4 studio, put forward several conditions for the future governor. First, he must come to parliament with a broad presentation of himself, his team and program. The second is to ensure real parliamentary control over the activities of the regional government.

On May 23, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court will begin considering the criminal case of Yekaterinburg City Duma deputy Maxim Petlin and his assistant Andrei Panteleev, accused of extorting a large sum from the management of Forum-Group CJSC. As URA.Ru was informed by the press service of the regional court, preliminary hearings chaired by Judge Vyacheslav Malashkovets will be held behind closed doors. “The start date of the main hearing will be determined,” the regional court clarified.

Alexander Misharin (pictured), leaving the region, among other things, left the scandalous “land reform” in Yekaterinburg unfinished Today, the Yekaterinburg City Hall held the last land auction for construction in the foreseeable future. It is unknown when the next auction will take place.

This morning for employees of the Kurgan administration and the Trans-Ural government apparatus began... with exercise in the central square of the regional center, which was specially cordoned off for an hour by traffic police officers. As the URA.Ru correspondent reports, exercise is a citywide event called “Get ready to exercise!”, in which, in addition to those in power, ordinary citizens also took part.

Due to a pipe break in the center of Chelyabinsk, a fountain began to flow from a sewer hatch on the Aloe Field. Vigilant citizens immediately reported this to emergency services, and one of them, writing on Twitter under the nickname “vit_golovin,” posted photographs. As Yegor Kovalchuk, deputy head of the city administration for urban services, told a URA.Ru correspondent, Chelyabinsk Heating Networks are carrying out pressure testing and have given test pressure.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan today, May 15, rejected the cassation appeal regarding the extension of the arrest of the subtenant of the diesel-electric ship "Bulgaria" Svetlana Inyakina and the expert of the Russian River Register Yakov Ivashov, who are accused in the case of the shipwreck. According to Izvestia, the arrest period for Inyakina and Ivashova was previously extended until July 10.

In Solikamsk, 25 dogs died as a result of a fire at a shelter for homeless animals. As URA.Ru was informed by the press service of the main directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Perm Territory, a message about the emergency was received by the operational duty officer today, May 15, at 7 o’clock. For an unknown reason, a wooden shelter room measuring 16 by 3 meters caught fire. The animals that were trapped inside suffocated from the smoke.

Today, May 15, in Verkhnyaya Salda, as a result of a severe fire, two private residential buildings with outbuildings were completely burned down, and another one was partially burned. As URA.Ru was informed by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region, information about the fire of several houses on Shchorsa Street was received by the duty officer at 4:12 a.m. on May 15.

Commissioners for the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs will appear in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. This was announced by the Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Natalya Komarova at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Small and Medium Businesses. She noted that such an institute will be implemented at the municipal level.

The Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region celebrates civil coming of age. 18 years ago the first composition of the regional Duma was formed. 15 newly-minted deputies became pioneers in regional legislative activity. In honor of such a significant date, some of the archival propaganda materials have been posted on the ZSO website. URA.Ru correspondents decided to touch on history and recall how the art of political printed propaganda was formed and developed in the Southern Urals.

The former governor of the Perm region, Oleg Chirkunov, decided to remain silent about his income for 2011, although at that time he was still fully in charge of the region. The official website of the administration of the head of the region published information on income, property and property-related obligations presented by employees of the administration of the governor of the Perm region for 2011. Usually the governor himself headed this list, but this time he was not there.

Monitoring the activities of the Perm governor has become much more difficult. Viktor Basargin’s predecessor Oleg Chirkunov wrote about his work online in a blog on Word Press, but the first weeks of the new regional leader’s work showed everyone that everyone interested in gubernatorial affairs would have to get used to such a regime. Viktor Basargin has not set up his own blog (and is unlikely to do so); he conducts introductory meetings in Perm in an inconspicuous, semi-closed manner.

Eliminating the fire at Gazprom's Yubileinoye field, near Novy Urengoy, will take at least another five days. As URA.Ru was informed by the press service of the Gazprom Dobycha Nadym enterprise, only on Saturday, May 19, will specialists be able to get close to the wellhead and begin the so-called “killing” of the fire. While the accident liquidators are being hampered by technical structures - the remains of a drilling rig that collapsed after a gas-water fountain caught fire.

The sixth regional TNK-BP Spartakiad started in Tyumen. Five national teams of the company’s subsidiaries are competing in mini-football, volleyball, basketball, table tennis, athletics, chess, bowling and billiards until May 18.