July 14, 2014. The annual Cherepanovs Regional Social Fund Prize awarding ceremony took place on the second day of the Innoprom 2014 Exhibition. This year, seventeen nominees won the prestigious award. Four of them are actually employed with Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, the company's press service reports. The prize was given to the leading energy expert from the corporation's head plant Georgy Bedrik, director of Uralvagonzavod's subsidiary Volchansky Mechanical Plant Vladimir Brusov, deputy senior designer of UKBV Alexander Pranov, and head of UNTK

July 14, 2014. Russian Copper Company, one of Russia's top three copper manufacturers, began putting up its headquarters in Yekaterinburg. The world-renowned Foster+Partners was invited to create the architectural design, the company reports. The company presented the project at the industrial exhibition Innoprom. Quite remarkably, this is going to be Forster+Partners' very first project to be implemented in Russia. As for the post-Soviet territory, Forster+Partners, founded and chaired by Lord Forster, built a number of facilities in the Republic of Kazakhstan, for example, Khan

July 14, 2014. Private individuals – subscribers to telecommunication networks owed their providers 24.6bn RUR as of July 1, 2014, which was 21% more than a year earlier. This figure went up in Ural Federal District, too, and amounted to 2.1bn RUR (compared with 1.69bn RUR a year earlier), the National Collection Service reports. The increase in telecommunication debts is gradually going down: in 2012, the amount of debt rose by 24% on the previous year, in 2013 and 2014, the figure was 22% and 21%, respectively. This decline has to do with the disappearance of the low base effect (when

July 14, 2014. Director-General of ChTPZ Engineering Dmitri Podoryashchiy took part in the meeting of Coordination Council for Industry and Engineering & Industrial Design Council under the Russian Federation Industry & Trade Ministry, while ChTPZ Organizational Development Director Tatiana Kozhevnikova joined a round table discussion on professional training as exemplified by German companies' experience, ChTPZ Group's press service says. In his speech at the meeting, ChTPZ Engineering DG pointed to the barriers that halt the development of engineering in Russia and

July 14, 2014. Russia is launching a no-visa mode for sports players, umpires, coaches, and even supporters for the duration of the World Cup 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his interview to ITAR TASS News Agency. 'In some respects, Russia is planning to go further than the hosts of this year's Mundial,' Putin said. He pointed out that the special preferential terms visa regime was already adopted through a federal law for the foreigners who will help prepare for the football championship of 2018. 'Shortly before and during the event, not only the official