UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 2, 2015. First private bankruptcy claims started to arrive in Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court; the exact amount is not clear yet, a source inside the court told UrBC. ‘We have already received first claims, an ad hoc committee was set up to process these. Statistical records on personal bankruptcy cases are also expected to be kept,’ the source said. Private bankruptcy legislation came into effect in Russia on October 1, 2015. Under the new law, an arbitration court might institute bankruptcy proceedings for a private individual if their debt exceeds 500,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 2, 2015. Yekaterinburg housing prices decreased by 5% in the nine months of this year so far, with prices on the existing homes market dropping by 1% to 2% every week, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. As of September 28, 2015, the average asking price came to 72,436 RUR per m2 on the existing homes market. The market demand remains only moderate, even though customers are still very active. As a result, the market supply has gone up by 47.5% since February. There are currently over 11,500 apartments and 1,860 rooms in communal apartments on sale through estate

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 2, 2015 Sakhalin-Energy and Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK, one of the world’s leading OCTG manufacturers, signed a memorandum on partnership. Under the terms of the document, TMK will make pipes with TMK premium threaded joints for Sakhalin-Energy’s needs. TMK press service reports the two parties intend to work as partners and find ways of mutually beneficial collaboration in what concerns getting pipes with premium threaded joints certified for the Sakhalin 2 Project. Under this memorandum, the pipe manufacturer’s TMK UP premium threaded joints for casing pipes

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 2, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) delivered a set of eight swamp-marching bulldozers to one of Lukoil’s daughter companies in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District. According to the corporation’s press service, the plant and its dealer Neftespetstrans (which sells the plant’s vehicles and spare parts to customers in Khanty-Mansiysky and Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Districts) won Lukoil’s tender for the order. ‘The customer decided on the trusted and well-reputed B10MB with a mechanical transmission, D180 engine,