January 26, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s latest meeting in Nizhniy Tagil was almost entirely dedicated to making sure the head plant’s stadium is ready for the important Russian Classic, the Supreme Hockey League championship. ‘The League’s Managing Director German Skoropupov, his deputy, and the project curator Nikolai Karpovich, as well as heads of the enterprise’s Security, Marketing, and PR divisions arrived to make sure all the finishing jobs are in full swing at the stadium,’ the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The game is one of the three significant events the company has

January 26, 2015. 1,152 inspections of enterprises and territories were conducted in Sverdlovsk Region last year, with 2,169 violations detected by the state authorities, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. 2014 proved an important year for local environmental authorities in terms of fighting illegal landfill sites. Following Governor Evgeniy Kuivashev’s request, large-scale efforts were made in May-December to detect and eliminate illegal landfills throughout Sverdlovsk Region. Under inspection were agricultural lands, forests, settlements, and protection

January 26, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s government debt came to 49,660,666,000 RUR on January 1, 2015, the local finance ministry states. A month before, the figure stood at 33,939,645,000 RUR, and a year earlier, the amount of debt was 33,889,052,000 RUR. Sverdlovsk Region Finance Minister Galina Kulachenko said the constituency’s government debt would triple by January 1, 2018 and come to 126.4bn RUR due to economic difficulties in the area.

January 26, 2015. The amount of German exports to Russia dropped by €6bn because of the EU sanctions on Russia and Russia’s countersanctions, Lenta.ru refers to the data that Chairman of the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations Prof. Dr. Eckhard Cordes cited to Rheinische Post. According to Cordes, export of German goods to Russia decreased by 18%, which could result in 60,000 job losses in the German economy. The official says things could get much worse in 2015. The Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations is an influential organization which represents the interests of

January 26, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) shipped 4,377,000,000 kg of steel pipes to customers last year, which was 1.5% better than in 2013, the company’s press service reports. The shipments in the last quarter of the year were 10.4% greater than in the previous quarter and amounted to 1,218,000,000 kg. Weldless pipe shipments rose by 3.8% compared with the year 2013 and reached 2,541,000,000 kg. In Q4’14, shipments increased by 11.5% against the previous quarter and came to 693,000,000 kg. Welded pipe shipments, however, went down by 1.5% compared with the year 2013 and amounted