УрБК, Москва, 05.04.2011. Стоимость минимального набора продуктов питания в среднем по России в конце марта 2011 года составила 2845,1 руб. в расчете на месяц. За март его стоимость выросла на 0,7% (с начала года — на 8,4%), сообщает Росстат.

В 12.00 начнется пресс-конференция, посвященная завершению создания на базе ОАО «Ростелеком» холдинга «Связьинвест» (ул. Кирова, 161). В 13.00 в пресс-центре Комсомольской правды (ул. Красная, 4) состоится пресс-конференция «Курорты Кавказских минеральных вод зовут южноуральцев на отдых». В 13.00 откроется выставка «Рекламные и информационные технологии. Уральская пресса» (ул. Энгельса, 22).

С 7 по 9 апреля в Челябинске пройдет «ЯРМАРКА КРЕДИТОВ. ВКЛАДЫ, СБЕРЕЖЕНИЯ. ПЕНСИОННОЕ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЕ».

OAO Iset-Fund will have to pay a 30,000-ruble fine for an administrative offense on the stock market. The decision to impose a fine on the company was made by Ural Federal District’s division of Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service.

An accident occurred at Kremny plant in Shelekhov, Sverdlovsk Region, leaving one man killed and two people badly burned and in hospital, ITAR TASS reports. The Ministry of Emergencies and Rostechnadzor’s experts are now examining the scene of the accident. ‘The investigative team is now looking into the circumstances of the tragedy,’ says the head of the regional investigative committee’s chief aide Vladimir Salovarov. ZAO Kremny actually belongs to United Company RUSAL.

Starting April 16, 2011, Russia and Turkey are to lift all the visa regulations for one another. The agreement between the Russian Federation Government and the Turkish Government was signed on May 12, 2010 in Ankara, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry reports. Now under the agreement the citizens of Russia and Turkey with valid international or special passports can enter, leave, transit, and stay in either country with no visa required for thirty days after the entry date (diplomatic passport owners can enter either country without a visa in accordance with the Russian-Turkish

The international rating agency called off the ratings of five Russian telecommunications providers: Severo-Zapadny Telecom (SZT), VolgaTelecom, Central Telecommunications Company (CenterTelecom), Uralsvyazinform, and Southern Telecommunications Company (YuTK). The ratings of the companies’ liabilities were called off at the same time. The reorganization of seven Russian telecommunications operators merging with Rostelecom is now complete. The regional operators are no longer legal entities.

Ural Federal District’s division of Rosprirodnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) completed its scheduled inspections of how the government of Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region are exercising the authority handed over from the Russian Federation in terms of water use regulations and the protection and use of the fauna not listed as the biological water resources; this covers the hunting resources as well. The control and regulations are to be carried out together with Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region division of Rosprirodnadzor. The inspections revealed nineteen violations, resulting in