Scientists at UrFU made plant-based milk healthier by adding a secret ingredient.

Chemists at Ural Federal University have found a way to make an alternative oat milk even healthier. They added grape pomace extract — a byproduct of winemaking — to the beverage, thereby increasing its nutritional value, phytochemical properties, and flavor and aroma characteristics.

A group of Roma were detained for fraud involving payments to participants from Sverdlovsk in the special military operation.

Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson Irina Volk wrote on her Telegram channel that police from the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions, together with officers from the regional office of the Russian FSB, disrupted the activities of an ethnically organized group that specialized in stealing payments intended for participants in the special military operation.

Sverdlovsk authorities denied introducing restrictions on alcohol sales.

The regional Department of Information Policy denied reports of tightened restrictions on alcohol sales. — The priority of the Sverdlovsk Region authorities is creating conditions for voluntary abstinence from alcohol.

A man from Yekaterinburg had a seizure, fell, and sustained a head injury in the courthouse.

In Yekaterinburg, a man went into convulsions and then hit his head in the district courts building at 2B Malysheva Street. He was helped by court bailiffs who had spotted him on the surveillance cameras.

Rules for the sale of alcohol in Sverdlovsk Oblast may be significantly tightened.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, requirements for the sale of alcohol and beer may be tightened. Regional authorities are considering shortening the period during which alcoholic beverages can be purchased legally.

A man from the Urals stabbed his ex-girlfriend in the yard and killed himself.

In Chelyabinsk, a 32-year-old man stabbed to death a 26-year-old woman he had been dating for nine years. After that, he killed himself. Witnesses told the Telegram channel Ural Mash that he could not cope with the breakup.

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.”