Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) completed its energy-saving projects in MMK Group’s departments and companies for the first half of 2012. Every year, MMK implements a number of programs aimed at reducing the amount of energy resources spent: electric power, fuel, fire-fighting/drinking and manufacturing water, heating energy, and air products. In the first half of the year, all the programs were fulfilled by 100% and in accordance with the schedules, MMK reports. The energy-saving measures will result in over 4.5m kilowatt-hours or 14.5m RUR worth of savings by the end of the year.

Yekaterinburg Central Stadium will be considered by the Russian Football Union as a possible venue for coordinating the Russian national youth team, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. On September 10, a qualification match for the European youth championship 2013 was held at the stadium, where the Russian national team played against Moldavia (2:2). In the same group, Poland and Portugal also had a draw. This means Nikolai Pisarev’s team came first in the group and is now in for the qualification play-off. ‘The Russian football union said at the end of the two matches, the stadium team managed

Ural Airlines is introducing a new flight in the Chelyabinsk-Moscow direction. The air carrier’s customers can now fly to the capital not only in the morning but also in the evening. Flight U6-607 Chelyabinsk-Moscow will be operated every day starting from October 28. Departure time is 6:00 PM, arrival time is 6:25 PM. The return flight departs from Moscow at 9:55 AM and arrives in Chelyabinsk at 2:35 PM (local time), the airline’s press service reports. The scheduled daily flight U6-609 departs from Chelyabinsk to Moscow at 8:00 AM; the return flight U6-610 leaves Moscow at 10:15 PM. All

Koltsovo Filling Station (a member of TNK-BP) is planning to increase its jet fuel prices from 30,520 RUR to 31,820 RUR per ton on September 12, Kommersant reports. The newspaper’s sources report that ‘prices are primarily growing at the filling stations that belong to the oil companies (and these are the players that set the current market trends). Jet fuel prices rose by nearly 6% in early September, which proved the greatest increase over the last few months. On July 3, 2012, Koltsovo Filling Station decreased jet fuel prices down to 30,520 RUR per ton. On April 23, 2012, its fuel cost

Silver Fir Mountains, a health and recreation resort, started a new fall season. A children’s camp used to be housed on the comfortable premises in the summer, but now this is a place of rest for the forty long-service employees of Uralvagonzavod, the corporation’s press service reports. A ten-day stay was a way for the plant’s administration to reward the most active members of the long-service employees council. The corporation workers say these energetic and caring people provide great support to all the initiatives at the plant. Trips to this health resort are usually offered to the