A woman from Yekaterinburg managed to beat all her opponents at the World Championship.

Yekaterinburg native Lea Garifullina, as part of the Russian national team, won the Women's World Team Championship in Linares. Notably, the Russian players did not lose a single match throughout the tournament, reported Andrey Filatov, president of the Russian Chess Federation.

In Yekaterinburg, the historic square has been fenced off.

Construction of an ice town has begun in Yekaterinburg’s Historical Square. Fences, corresponding notices and equipment have appeared at the entrances to the site.

The court sentenced a flight attendant at Ural Airlines to seven years in prison for messages in a village chat.

In the Moscow Region, the Vidnovsky City Court sentenced Ural Airlines flight attendant Varvara Volkova to seven years in a penal colony. This was reported by the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of the Moscow Region.

Trams in Yekaterinburg came to a halt this morning.

In Yekaterinburg, tram No. 16 came to a standstill on Gurzufskaya Street. Repair crews were dispatched to it. As a result, the services of routes Nos. 1, 16 and 21 were altered, the city transport department reported.

A wheel torn off in a crash on the EKAD shattered the windshield of a passing minibus (PHOTO)

A wheel flew into the windshield of a passing minibus, shattering it. The accident occurred today on the EKAD, Yekaterinburg media report. The wheel of one of the vehicles came off as a result of a collision between two vehicles.

For a year and a half, a man from Yekaterinburg transferred money to his girlfriend for a non-existent child.

A woman from Kurgan Oblast deceived a man from Yekaterinburg out of nearly half a million rubles under the pretext that they had a child together. A 28-year-old resident of Yekaterinburg contacted the duty unit of the Shumikhinsky Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kurgan Region reports.

The natural annual population increase in Yekaterinburg amounted to 733 people.

The natural population increase in Yekaterinburg in 2025 amounted to 733 people, Kommersant Ural reports. The figure was given by Alexey Pryadein, director of the Department of Economics of the Yekaterinburg Administration, while delivering a report on the city's socio-economic development.

More than 100,000 tires. A dump of old tires is being cleared in Yekaterinburg.

An unauthorised dump of used tires that appeared on Chekhov Street will be cleared in the Zheleznodorozhny District of Yekaterinburg, the mayor’s press service reported. According to preliminary estimates, the site has accumulated more than 100,000 units of “old rubber.”

A woman in Perm Krai will face trial for deceiving a male acquaintance out of more than 800,000 rubles by claiming she was supporting a non-existent daughter.

Animal rights activists demanded that the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs punish the police officer who shot and killed an aggressive dog.

The Sverdlovsk Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has launched an investigation into a police officer from the city of Sukhoy Log who shot a dog that had been showing aggression toward people. Animal rights activists requested that the officer's actions be investigated, the EAN news agency reports.

In Yekaterinburg, an 18-year-old man left to join the special military operation while under the influence of "scammers".

In Yekaterinburg, an 18-year-old newcomer from Bashkortostan, allegedly without realizing what he was doing, signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence and was sent to the SVO zone. The young man's mother insists that her son did it under the influence of scammers.

The former owners of Makfa intend to sue URA.RU.

Twelve journalists from URA.RU, including the news agency's editor-in-chief Diana Kozlova and the head of its Sverdlovsk editorial office Denis Allyarov (who is under investigation on charges of bribery), have been named defendants in a 94-million-ruble lawsuit, reports the EAN agency.

A 15-year-old resident of Zarechny who went missing in Yekaterinburg has been found.

A 15-year-old girl from Zarechny, whose father had begun searching for her, has been found. The girl, it should be recalled, went to Yekaterinburg on November 17, leaving her mobile phone at home. The message that she had been found appeared on the "LizaAlert" page the evening before, on November 21.

In the wealthiest region of the Ural Federal District, migrants were banned from working in courier delivery.

In Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug—Yugra, the list of economic activities in which employers will be prohibited from hiring migrants from January 1, 2026, will be expanded from 22 to 27.