June 16, 2014. Players from Ogneborets, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s company team, became hockey champions and winners of the Crystal Cup awarded for winning in Rostech-Russian Corporate Games World Corporate League. The championship was held in Moscow. According to the corporation’s press service, this is the first time an ice hockey championship has been organized within the four years of running the competitions. Four teams took part in the event: a team from N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, AvtoLine Group, which took part in the contest for the first time this year, a team

June 16, 2014. President of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Employers Alexander Shokhin signed a certificate which confirmed Russian Copper Company Group joining the organization he leads. ‘We operate in the real sector of economy, we put up ore mining enterprises that remain unmatched on the post-soviet arena, build plants from scratch, and upgrade old production facilities. I am positive that our membership will be very beneficial to the Union – we are truly aware of the sector’s peculiarities, pay great attention to corporate social responsibility projects, and are willing to

June 16, 2014. MegaFon and Kaspersky Lab are launching free antivirus software for Anroid-based mobile devices, the mobile telecommunications provider’s press service reports. ‘All of MegaFon’s customers who prefer Android 2.3 (and up)-based devices can enjoy the benefits of a special version of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android free of charge. This protection comes as a part of the package for all of MegaFon-branded new products,’ the message states. Kaspersky Internet Security for Android was designed by Kaspersky Lab experts specially for MegaFon subscribers; it can check the device

June 16, 2014. The Director-General of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation received a thank-you letter from Deputy Head of Russia’s Federal Service for Military & Technical Cooperation Konstantin Biryulin, who expressed his gratitude to Oleg Sienko and the entire Uralvagonzavod team for taking part in KADEX 2014, the International Arms & Military Assets Exhibition, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The letter dwells on the corporation’s special role in the development of military and technical cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan. For one, the

June 16, 2014. A large screen meant for broadcasting the games of the World Football Championship of 2014 is now being installed at Mayakovsky Park in Yekaterinburg, the city council’s press service reports. The screen is over 60 sq m big. It is to be assembled from 135 60x60 cm modules in the course of a few hours: first, modules have to be put into place one by one, then, the structure needs to be connected to an electric power supply, and finally, the image settings will need to be adjusted. This is a LED screen that will be able to operate in any weather and in virtually any temperature,

June 16, 2014. The World Steel Association came up with its annual rating of the world’s largest steelmakers in 2013. There are 50 companies on the WSA Top Steel-Producing Companies 2013 list. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), with its more than 11.9m tons of steel produced last year, was given the 29th position in the rating, therefore becoming once again one of the world’s top thirty largest steelmakers. There are four Russian enterprises on the list of the top 50 manufacturers all in all, and Russia itself is the world’s fifth largest producer of steel, with output standing at