The defense of Vladimir Vasilyev, who killed two people in a car crash, is suing the owner of the keys.

The defense of Vladimir Vasilyev, the "son of a Rosgvardiya colonel" convicted in Yekaterinburg for a crash that killed two people, intends to bring a civil claim against the owner of the car that Vasilyev was driving at the time of the accident.

A woman from Yekaterinburg broke her spine while tubing.

A woman from Yekaterinburg broke her spine and a rib while tubing. She hit a ramp, flew off the tube, and then struck the ground.

In Yekaterinburg, a court on its second attempt remanded a businessman who had hired someone to douse his wife with acid to pretrial detention.

The Yekaterinburg court today, January 18, decided on a preventive measure for businessman Nikolai Ermakov, who is accused of attempting to arrange the murder of his former live-in partner.

Sverdlovsk police made the dream of a 5-year-old girl from Yekaterinburg come true.

The Sverdlovsk police, as part of the All-Russian charitable campaign "Tree of Wishes", fulfilled the New Year's wish of 5-year-old Yekaterinburg resident Taisiya Kukushkina and her family.

Rospotrebnadzor reported inspections of coffee shops in Yekaterinburg over possible poisoning of customers.

The press service of Sverdlovsk Rospotrebnadzor reported that it will verify media reports of customers being poisoned at the Duo chain of cafes in Yekaterinburg. From January 17, Rospotrebnadzor specialists will inspect the chain's cafes and production facilities, collecting samples for laboratory testing.

Some districts of Yekaterinburg have been left without heating and hot water.

Parts of the Leninsky and Verkh-Isetsky districts of Yekaterinburg were left without heating and hot water due to a utility accident — all because of a rupture in the main pipeline on Obyezdnaya Street.

At Uktus, a man relaxing on the slope brutally beat a child on a snow scooter.

A nightmare on Mount Uktus occurred today, January 18, in Yekaterinburg. A man who was out with his wife brutally beat a child he didn't know after the child accidentally ran into his wife.

A man who beat an infant in Yekaterinburg nearly to death has been arrested.

The suspect accused of attempting to murder an infant was arrested yesterday, January 17, in Yekaterinburg. The media reported that a man beat a young mother and an infant on Belorechenskaya Street in Yekaterinburg.

In Yekaterinburg, doctors stabilized the condition of an infant who was brutally beaten by his own 52-year-old father, Alexander Ufimtsev. It's too early to draw definitive conclusions, but the condition is stable.

The ice hole at Kalinovka proved inaccessible.

Residents of Yekaterinburg complained that they were unable to take a dip in the ice hole in Kalinovka. Although in the list published on the official website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM), the ice hole at the address St.

In Yekaterinburg, eight more residential buildings will be demolished on Strelochnikov Street.

The Yekaterinburg administration approved the renovation of the block near the railway station. Eight two-story residential houses on Strelochnikov Street and three non-residential buildings will be demolished there.

Sverdlovsk's former deputy minister of energy has been placed on the federal wanted list.

Former deputy minister of energy and housing and communal services of the Sverdlovsk Region, Sergey Gaidu, has been placed on the federal wanted list. The information appeared in the database on the official website of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The sports club "Kalininets" celebrates its 60th anniversary today.

The Kalininets Sports Complex is perhaps one of the oldest and largest sports complexes in the Urals. The title "sports club Kalininets" was conferred on the collective by a resolution of the Voluntary Sports Society "Profsoyuzov" of the All‑Union Central Council of Trade Unions on 19 January 1966.

Rumors have emerged about the resignation of the director of the main Sverdlovsk newspaper.

Ura.Ru reports on a possible resignation of Anton Tretyakov, general director of "Oblastnaya Gazeta." According to one source, Tretyakov has already told colleagues that he intends to resign voluntarily.