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Yekaterinburg plans to set up new dedicated lanes for trams and buses. In Yekaterinburg this year they plan to separate 48 kilometers of tram tracks and 8.4 kilometers of dedicated bus lanes. This follows from a resolution approved by Mayor Alexey Orlov. Could it be you? Another Sverdlovsk resident won tens of millions of rubles. Sverdlovsk Oblast is once again cementing its reputation as the country's luckiest region when it comes to lottery wins. Another resident of the Urals has won nearly 23 million rubles. “So that this doesn't happen…” A Special Military Operation fighter from Yekaterinburg painted a picture for his fellow townspeople of Russia's defeat. Platon Mamatov, a volunteer in the special military operation who in his previous civilian life was a well-known PR specialist in Yekaterinburg, urged everyone to take as seriously as possible the statements by Russian politicians that the West intends to partition the Russian Federation. A "lake" of feces appeared in Yekaterinburg. On Okrainnaya Street, between houses 35 and 36, a utility accident occurred that resulted in an entire lake of sewage. It was covered with snow, and then the feces were gathered into a pile. Twenty-four violations were found in the operations of the supplier for a Yekaterinburg coffee shop where customers complained of food poisoning. Twenty-four violations were found in the operations of the supplier for the Yekaterinburg coffee-chain DUO (Dessertkom+ LLC). This was revealed in court, where the question of suspending the company's activities is being decided following complaints of poisoning, the Ura.Ru agency reports. Food prices have risen again in Sverdlovsk Oblast. In Sverdlovsk Oblast, prices rose by 0.55% in December 2025 compared with November. At the same time, the press service of the Ural Main Directorate of the Bank of Russia says that annual inflation fell to 7.31%.