- 17:16 14/05/2012
A FIFA delegation on Monday completed a "constructive" tour of the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, which is bidding to be a host venue for the 2018 World Cup, the head of the organizing committee said.
- 15:06 02/05/2012
The pitch that will host the Russian Cup final later this month is in worthy condition, the Russian Football Union announced Wednesday, denying reports it would cut up too easily and ruin the football.
- 20:10 23/04/2012
Jumping on the political bandwagon, a cat in Russia followed the example of a fellow Virginia-based feline to launch a political career, aiming for a seat in the legislature of the country’s fourth-biggest city.
- 19:01 20/04/2012
Russia should avoid buying foreign military equipment and focus on purchasing technology instead, Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s deputy premier in charge of defense industry issues, said on Friday.2
- 13:41 17/04/2012
Police have recovered a man’s body and a half-burned U.S. passport from an abandoned garage in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg, the Investigative Committee reported on Tuesday.
- 12:30 07/03/2012
A district lawmaker in the Russian Urals Sverdlovsk region has been hospitalized after an inebriated retiree unhappy with growing utility tariffs attacked her with an ax, police said on Wednesday.
- 12:07 15/02/2012
Nine pairs of animals at the Yekaterinburg Zoo are competing for the title of best couple. The contest is being held to mark St. Valentine’s Day. Among the competing couples are polar bears, meerkats, whooper swans and black crowned cranes.
- 18:33 04/02/2012
Thousands participated in rallies both in support and against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday around Russia and outside Moscow.
- 16:40 03/02/2012
A female long-eared hedgehog named Pugovka, who lives in Yekaterinburg Zoo, has told the people of the Urals what spring will be like. Watch on the RIA Novosti video how the animal predicted the weather on Groundhog Day.
- 16:44 02/02/2012
Russia’s liberal Yabloko party has asked prosecutors to investigate reports that state employees are being coerced into attending a rally in Moscow this weekend in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s presidency bid.
- 16:01 01/02/2012
Whether there were eight or fourteen thousand of them (figures differ even in official reports), the massive rally held in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Urals region, in support of “stability” (read – PM Vladimir Putin) was an impressive affair, especially by Russia's provincial standards.2
- 15:55 28/01/2012
A rally organized by labor groups to show mass working class support for Vladimir Putin's bid for a new presidential term has gathered around 12,000 people in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg on Saturday, police said.1
- 14:54 18/01/2012
A prominent Russian liberal politician has said the release of a video, in which he used bad language in discussing the country’s protest movement, was an attempt to cause friction among the opposition.
- 12:02 17/01/2012
A resident in Russia’s Urals city of Yekaterinburg has recorded a video of a crow snowboarding on a roof using a mayonnaise lid.
- 13:55 30/12/2011
The main ice town of the Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals opened on December 29 in Yekaterinburg
- 13:29 27/12/2011
A court in the Urals region of Russia sentenced the head of Yekaterinburg’s Pension Fund, Sergei Dubinkin, on Tuesday to ten years in jail for a $1 million bribe, RIA Novosti reported.
- 17:31 13/12/2011
The world record for the longest sushi roll was set in Yekaterinburg on December 12. The cooked giant measured 2.5 kilometers in length. Sixty chefs worked for 15 hours to prepare the sushi roll.
- 14:28 13/12/2011
Yekaterinburg chefs beat the world record by preparing the longest sushi roll in the world.
- 02:43 11/12/2011
Authorized and unauthorized protests in dozens of Russian cities, in which at least 60,000 people across the country are estimated to have taken part, were largely peaceful.7
