A Sverdlovsk resident accidentally shot an officer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations while hunting.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast a hunter accidentally shot and killed a Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) employee, Oleg Britvin. It all happened on the evening of January 9 in the area of the former "Blue Bird" camp in Lesnoy.

In the Urals, a 19-year-old snowmobile rider was arrested for driving drunk without a license.

A 19-year-old local resident who was operating a snowmobile while heavily intoxicated was detained by traffic police in the settlement of Levikha in the Kirovgrad District during a preventive raid, the State Traffic Inspectorate of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region reported on Sunday.

In Moscow, a man left his two-year-old son alone on the street to film how passersby became worried.

A Muscovite left his two-year-old son sleeping outside and went to a café. There the man sat by the window and began filming passersby’s reactions to the child sleeping alone in the cold, the Telegram channel Baza reports.

The mother of the infant beaten by a 52-year-old Yekaterinburg resident revealed details.

The mother of the infant, who is in ODKB No. 1 with a severe traumatic brain injury after being beaten by his father, told KP-Yekaterinburg that the man did not live with them.

Former governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev attended the ceremonial reception in honor of the 92nd anniversary of Sverdlovsk Oblast.

All four governors of Sverdlovsk Oblast, including the very first and the current one, gathered on Friday, January 16, for a ceremonial reception in honor of the 92nd anniversary of the founding of Sverdlovsk Oblast.

An experiment on targeted recruitment of migrants will be conducted in Yekaterinburg.

In Yekaterinburg and other regions of Russia, excluding Moscow and the Moscow Region, an experiment on targeted hiring of migrants will be carried out. The decision was made by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Mishustin.

In Yekaterinburg, a brothel on the site of a former webcam studio was shut down.

In Yekaterinburg, authorities shut down the activities of a "prostitute den" that had appeared on the site of a previously closed webcam studio. The administrator of the sex den was detained and taken to the police station.

In Yekaterinburg, they could not find a contractor for four bus routes.

In Yekaterinburg, no carrier company could be found for four bus routes, the EAN agency reports, citing the State Procurement website. Authorities could not find a carrier for bus routes Nos. 45, 63, 79 and 86.

The reason for the long queues at the State Traffic Inspectorate's Registration and Examination Department (REO) in Yekaterinburg has been revealed.

The cause of the huge queues for vehicle registration at the Yekaterinburg State Traffic Inspectorate may be resellers of appointment slots. A source from the EAN news agency in law enforcement reported this.

In Yekaterinburg, public transport speeds were restricted due to abnormally cold weather.

In Yekaterinburg, public transport has been slowed down due to the arrival of cold weather. The city's Department of Transport reported this. The maximum speed for trams is now 25 kilometers per hour, and for trolleybuses 35 kilometers per hour.

190 half-pairs of shoes and 200 sets of underwear for guests of the 'wedding' were seized by Koltsovo customs officers.

Koltsovo customs officers compiled a top list of violations in 2025. In first place by frequency remains the illegal import and export of currency. In second place are violations related to the failure to declare goods required to be declared — 263 commercial consignments (193 last year), mainly from China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the UAE.

Parents of Sverdlovsk teenagers will each pay 250,000 rubles for the attempted murder of a boy.

The Court of Verkhnyaya Pyshma ordered the recovery of 250,000 rubles from the parents of each of two 13-year-old boys who in May 2025 attempted to kill a peer. "In Verkhnyaya Pyshma the prosecutor's office recovered compensation for moral damages through the court in favor of the minor who was injured as a result of an attack by his peers in an abandoned hangar," the press service of the Sverdlovsk prosecutor's office said.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, an infant suffocated in his sleep because of his father.

In the Shalinsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, an infant suffocated in his sleep while sleeping next to his father. A criminal case was opened against the man on a charge of causing death by negligence.

Due to severe frosts, the "Finists" in Sverdlovsk Oblast were replaced by regular electric commuter trains.

On Wednesday, January 14, when temperatures in the Sverdlovsk Region dropped in places to −40°C, passengers on the morning service from Nizhny Tagil to Yekaterinburg saw a standard commuter train with plastic seats on the platform instead of "Finist".