November 29, 2013. This year, the supply of available office space tended to decrease, while the rent growth slowed down. According to experts from Ural Chamber of Real Estate's Analytical Departments, the overall macroeconomic situation, which is anything but favorable, was the primary reason for this. The amount of new office space getting commissioned has been on the decrease. Whereas some 240,000 sq m of office space were commissioned in the last two years (mainly the business centers that were started even prior to the outbreak of the recession), only 33,000 sq m were commissioned

November 20, 2013. The Expert-Ural magazine carried a rating of the Urals and West Siberia-based companies that were most actively engaged in innovative activity in 2012. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) proved the most active among all the metallurgical companies in this territories. The rating was based on the data from the annual accounting reports published on the companies' official websites and in the information/analytical system SPARK. Geographically, the scope of the rating covered Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Orenburg Region, Tyumen Region (including

November 29, 2013. Students of ChTPZ Group's company education program called 'The Future of White Metallurgy' attended a series of lectures on modern technological art; this was part of the third session of Science Art Lab. The project is being implemented by Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ, a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) in cooperation with Pervouralsk Palace of New Culture and with some support from the Russian Ministry of Culture, ChTPZ Group's press service says. Professor Dmitri Bulatov, the leading expert of Baltic Federal University's Innovations Park in