July 2, 2014. Ural Airlines and its new partner Taxi Avantime are offering new discounts to Wings Club members, the airline’s press service reports. To join the Wings Club program, you need to submit your application via the airline’s official website www.uralairlines.com, on board, or at Ural Airlines’ booking offices. To get a discount on a taxi ride in Yekaterinburg, you need to produce your Wings Club membership card or your boarding ticket at Taxi Avantime stand at Koltsovo Airport. The discount comes to 3% to 10%.

July 2, 2014. The Consumer Lending Act that came into effect on July 1, 2014 could improve the quality of Russian borrowers, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Lending Services Director Svetlana Davydova said at a press conference. According to Ms Davydova, the new law resulted in significant changes in the way loans are issued to private individuals; the banks’ ways of resorting to non-transparent lending schemes have been limited as well. ‘Under the new law, the borrowing party can now spend at least five days thinking of whether to sign the lending contract. This is an

July 2, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s youth club celebrated its 15th ‘birthday’ on the Russian Youth Day, the corporation’s press service reports. The jubilee concert organized for the occasion gathered together the most active and labor-loving young people at I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s youth club has remained the leader for many years and is still one of the largest youth organizations in Russia. The corporation employs 12,392 workers under 35 at the moment, of whom 7,143 people are youth club members. ‘Over these fifteen

July 2, 2014. The commander of Vietnam’s National Defense Ministry’s Engineering Corps took an interest in the vehicles made at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) that were shown to him by Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s Deputy Director-General Valeriy Platonov, ChTZ Director-General Viktor Voropayev, and Tractorozavodsky Technological Park’s Daughter Companies & Affiliates Director Dmitri Shkyrdin during their business trip to Vietnam, the corporation’s press service reports. The military authorities were shown the entire range of the

July 2, 2014. The Federal Act FZ 353 on Consumer Lending that aims to bring more structure to the Russian lending market comes into effect on Tuesday, July 1. With the new legislation’s regulations in mind, Bank Koltso Urala is launching a free information service for its customers. The service provides an annually updated loan repayment schedule, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Starting today, customers who take out a loan from Bank Koltso Urala will get access to My Account section on the company website. After they enter their log-in and passport at cabinet.kubank.ru, borrowers can