The commission did not admit New People and the LDPR to the contest for the position of mayor of Yekaterinburg.

Following the second stage of the competition, the commission reviewing candidates for the post of head of Yekaterinburg recommended that Sverdlovsk Oblast Governor Denis Pasler submit four candidates to the Yekaterinburg City Duma for consideration and did not give its approval to two.

Three young men were arrested in Yekaterinburg for raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg remanded three young men accused of gang-raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl to pretrial detention. The hearings were held behind closed doors.

A woman from Sverdlovsk "helped" scammers swindle millions of rubles from the widow of a participant in the special military operation.

A resident of Sverdlovsk Region was caught acting as a money mule, the regional prosecutor's office reported. According to investigators, in May last year telephone scammers deceived a resident of Tyumen Region, the widow of a service member killed in the special military operation, and persuaded her to transfer more than two million rubles to various bank accounts.

A man from the Urals was convicted of insulting a Sverdlovsk police officer on social media.

The Sysert District Court sentenced a 31-year-old resident of the settlement of Bolshoy Istok to corrective labor with wage withholding for posting insults about police officers on social media.

An UrGEU student who was hit at a pedestrian crossing died after seven months in a coma.

A 19-year-old student of the UrGEU college who was hit by a Kia Rio at a pedestrian crossing has died. Milena had been paralyzed for almost seven months. Her heart stopped beating on December 31.

He was walking alone, a sled in his hands. The Yekaterinburg police described how they searched for the children on Christmas night.

The results of the "Commandant's Patrol" preventive operation in Yekaterinburg were summed up by the media relations department of the Russian Interior Ministry's directorate for the Ural capital.

Inmates of Krasnoturinsk Correctional Colony No. 16 entered a New Year’s handmade craft in a contest (PHOTO)

Handmade decorations ("made by hand") were crafted for the New Year by inmates of the Krasnoturyinsk women's penal colony IK-16, the press service of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service for the Sverdlovsk Region reported.

Sverdlovsk rescuers issued an urgent warning.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations is warning Sverdlovsk residents about very frosty days: on January 15–17 the Sverdlovsk Region is expected to see abnormally cold weather, with average daily air temperatures 7 degrees or more below the climatic norm!

The number of poor people in Sverdlovsk Oblast has decreased.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, the share of residents with incomes below the poverty line is decreasing. By the end of 2024, about 6% of the population fell into this category, compared with 8.6% in 2021.

A young Sverdlovsk resident has been preparing for three years to join the ranks of the traffic police (PHOTO)

Officers of the State Traffic Inspectorate at the Shalinsky police department have been helping a schoolboy for three years so that he may one day stand alongside them. Roman, from the settlement of Ilim, dreams of becoming a traffic police inspector, the State Traffic Inspectorate of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region reports.

Meteorologists reported when the -40°C cold will leave Sverdlovsk Oblast.

Over the next 24 hours, anomalously cold weather will persist across a large part of the Sverdlovsk Region, with air temperatures 7–14°C below normal.❗️ ✅January 15.

In the new season of the show "The Voice," Sverdlovsk residents will be able to "root for" Nizhny Tagil.

The new season of the vocal show "The Voice" will air on Channel One on January 23. There won't be any contestants from Yekaterinburg this season, but there are still people to root for.

The first region of the Russian Federation has banned the issuance of housing certificates to foreigners.

The first Russian region officially restricted foreigners' right to receive free housing funded by the budget. The authorities of Yamal (YNAO) made the decision. New rules of the housing capital program (housing certificate — note) came into force in YNAO on January 1.

The flight from Krasnodar to Yekaterinburg was canceled due to weather after several postponements.

The flight from Krasnodar to Yekaterinburg was canceled due to snowfall. According to Koltsovo Airport’s online departures board, the Ural Airlines plane was scheduled to depart on January 12 at 3:45 p.m. and arrive in Yekaterinburg on the evening of January 13.