Alexander Negrebetskikh is again ready to fight for his plant with a saber. The rolling mill worker at the Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant, Alexander Negrebetskikh, again sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to help the enterprise get back on its feet. Half of the workshops are idle, due to lack of orders, layoffs have begun.

The Russian Foreign Ministry will host a presentation of the investment and economic potential of the Tyumen region. As a URA.Ru correspondent reports, it will be opened by the head of the ministry, Sergei Lavrov, on December 5. The region will be represented by Governor Vladimir Yakushev.

In the existing informal competition between Russian officials for access and attention of the first person (Vladimir Putin), the second governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Misharin, made his move. As a URA.Ru correspondent reports, the day before President Vladimir Putin met with representatives of the Union of Transport Workers, timed to coincide with the 175th anniversary of the Russian Railways.

The prosecutor's office of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug will seek through the court a ban on the operation of industrial waste processing sites of the Invest-Oil LLC company at the Priobskoye field, at whose plant there was a fire in September that claimed 11 lives.

Today, October 31, in Yekaterinburg, as a result of a rupture of a main water pipeline with a diameter of 900 millimeters at the intersection of Moskovskaya and Obyezdnaya streets, the Vtorchermet microdistrict was left without water, and the most important transport hub of the regional center was flooded.

For the first time in 10 years, Russian President Vladimir Putin will not communicate with Russians during the traditional “Direct Line”. This information was confirmed to Kommersant by the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, who said that this time a “different format” would be chosen for dialogue with citizens. Peskov promised that the specific form of communication will be announced later. The newspaper's sources believe that this is a big press conference.

A commission from the Federal Air Transport Agency arrived in the Chelyabinsk region to find out the reasons for yesterday’s crash of a Su-24 front-line bomber in the Etkul region. The department’s specialists will work as part of the operational headquarters created for the investigation, the press service of the Federal Air Transport Agency told URA.Ru.

Upon the crash of an SU-24 aircraft in the Chelyabinsk region, the military investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Article 351 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of flight rules or preparation for them.” As the press service told URA.Ru of the Main Military Investigation Department, samples of aviation fuel were seized from the Shagol military airfield, from where the plane

The district authorities of Ugra are preparing a bill that will prohibit overstaffing of officials.

In 2013, another investment project in the Tyumen region will reach the finish line, the URA.Ru correspondent reports. The German company MS-Bauchemie is completing the construction of a plant for the production of dry construction mixtures, soils and concrete additives in the village of Kaskara, Tyumen region. According to the governor's press service, the plant's design capacity is 45 thousand tons of dry construction mixtures, 18 thousand tons of soil and concrete additives per year.

In Chelyabinsk, police officers who received a message that a car was driving along the city streets with a bloody hand sticking out of the trunk, most likely a corpse, were very puzzled when, after stopping the car, they discovered that the “corpse” was a very alive young girl. Together with their friends, students, who were sitting in the car, they just decided to have fun. “We got bored!

Ice rain, observed the day before in Moscow and expected this afternoon in the Perm region, will reach the Sverdlovsk region on the night of November 1. According to the Hydrometeorological Center of the region (SCGMS-R), tomorrow the air temperature will drop to plus 1 - minus 1 degrees, rain and sleet will begin, accompanied by a westerly wind of 4-9 meters per second. This weather will continue throughout Friday. The precipitation will stop towards evening.

Over eight years, the government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug promises to introduce more than 11 million square meters of housing. Such data is contained in the passport of the target program for the development of enterprises in the building materials industry and industrial housing construction, which will begin to operate from 2013 to 2020.

At an extraordinary meeting of the Chelyabinsk regional association of employers "PROMASS" held today, October 31, entrepreneur and deputy of the Duma of the capital of the Southern Urals Mark Boldov was elected president of the organization. The candidacy was proposed by the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, Mikhail Yurevich, and the majority of the meeting participants, with two abstentions, supported his proposal, the URA.Ru correspondent reports.

Over two years, the number of Russians who believe in supernatural forces has almost doubled - from 26% to 40%. These are the data of a survey conducted by VTsIOM on the eve of Halloween. Interestingly, the majority of the country's residents believe in omens (22%) and horoscopes (21%). There are much fewer of those who consider fortune telling by hand and love spells real (8%). At the same time, far fewer people believe in the existence of supernatural beings.