January 15, 2015. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) delivered 20% more goods (+100,000,000 kg) to Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) in 2014, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. Last year was a fruitful and record-setting one for MMK and ChTPZ. For one, MMK delivered over 570,000,000 kg of rolled stock to ChTPZ, including over 460,000,000 kg produced at Mill 5000; this has become the largest shipment in the two companies’ cooperation history. In 2013, Chelyabinsk customers received 477,000,000 kg of MMK’s rolled products. The increase in metal goods shipments primarily has to do

January 15, 2015. Danone, the transnational dairy foods giant, might close down its Russia-based plants in the long term in case the country’s economy keeps on deteriorating, TASS refers to Bernard Ducros, CEO and Vice President of Fresh Dairy Products Division in Russia and CIS countries, as saying. ‘We are not planning to close down the plants for the time being, but, naturally, it will all depend on the market situation, which could get very difficult,’ M. Ducros said. According to his estimates, all of Danone’s Russia-based plants should still be operating for at least another one or two

January 15, 2015. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) delivered 20% more goods (+100,000,000 kg) to Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) in 2014, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. Last year was a fruitful and record-setting one for MMK and ChTPZ. For one, MMK delivered over 570,000,000 kg of rolled stock to ChTPZ, including over 460,000,000 kg produced at Mill 5000; this has become the largest shipment in the two companies’ cooperation history. In 2013, Chelyabinsk customers received 477,000,000 kg of MMK’s rolled products. The increase in metal goods shipments primarily has to do

January 15, 2015. 24,641 people came to Yekaterinburg Employment Center looking for a job in 2014. 15,642 applicants actually found a place, which comes to 51.4% of all those registered with the center, Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Service’s press officer reports. 3,896 people were registered as unemployed as of December 27, 2014. The official unemployment rate was 0.53%. Sverdlovsk Region employers advertised 23,744 vacancies, including 8,251 positions for foreign workers (34.7% of all the jobs advertised). 15,913 positions were blue-collar jobs (67% of the total number), and

January 15, 2015. Russia’s Accounts Chamber announced it wasn’t happy with the speed of putting up University Techno Park in Yekaterinburg. According to the Chamber’s press service, three out of eight Russian hi tech parks, including University Techno Park, are not complete enough to host resident companies there. Besides, the park in Yekaterinburg has no performance indicators to prove the project is being implemented. Now University Techno Park is on the national special-purpose investment list for 2014-2016. The project covers for the construction of a scientific research/educational

January 15, 2015. On February, 14, 2015, Russian Classic, a hockey game between Nizhniy Tagil’s Sputnik (sponsored by Uralvagonzavod Corporation) and Orsk’s Yuzhniy Ural will be held in Nizhniy Tagil. ‘The tickets became available for purchase on January 15. The appealing price of 100 RUR will, the coordinators believe, attract not only hockey fans and team supporters, but also all those interested in hockey and even those who have never been to a game before. The event is planned in a way that will amuse adults and children alike,’ Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service says. Tickets can