UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2015. Chinese, Azerbaijan, and Mexican suppliers can fully compensate for lack of Turkish products on Sverdlovsk Region’s food market, President of Ural Chamber of Commerce & Industry Andrei Besedin said at a press conference. ‘There are six or seven countries out there that feel both ready and very lucky to enter the Russian market instead of Turkey. Azerbaijan in one such country, as well as the countries of Latin and Central America,’ he said. Deputy Head of Ural Customs Administration Alexei Yagovitin says Turkey was the area’s No.1 tomato importer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s employers delayed paying 573mRUR worth of salaries and wages in the eleven months of 2015, the constituency’s Senor Labor Inspector Fyodor Kravtsov said at a press conference. ‘The situation is far from perfect. 573m RUR worth of wages and salaries were not paid on time. So far, we’ve managed to make employers pay 490m RUR and 83m RUR are still owed to their workers. All in all, 1,700 people working for twenty-five different companies haven’t been paid on time,’ Kravtsov said. He added 8,200 complaints related to labor rights

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2015. A new clinic (part of the Bud Zdorov! Chain) for employees of Sinara Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK) and all the other town locals opened in Kamensk Uralsky on December 2, TMK press service reports. The opening ceremony was attended by Sverdlovsk Region Healthcare Minister Arkadiy Belyavskiy, TMK Deputy Director-General for Organizational Development Nikolai Kolbin, Deputy Director-General of Ingosstrakh Tatiana Kaigorodova, Sinara Pipe Plant Managing Director Vyacheslav Popkov, and the chain’s DG Vyacheslav Novikov.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 4, 2015. ChTPZ Group shareholder and BOD Chairman, Deputy of Chelyabinsk Region Legislative Assembly Alexander Fedorov won the Delovoy Kvartal magazine’s Man of The Year Award for the second time in a row. The solemn awarding ceremony took place at the Congress & Exhibition Hall recently. The prize, indicative of Fedorov’s success in large-scale improvements, of efficiency of his projects, and of his contribution to the company, the pipe-manufacturing industry, and Chelyabinsk Region’s development, was awarded by a group of experts comprising business community

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, Deccember 4, 2015. ChTPZ Group’s corporate training program the Future of White Metallurgy was awarded the first prize in the blue-collar jobs training contest by the Russian Education & Science Ministry and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. The prize was given to the company representatives at the 10th International Global Education 2015 Congress & Exhibition, the company press service reports. ‘We trained over 400 highly skilled workers, each of whom now has three to four kinds of qualifications, in the last four years. Most of the program alumni find jobs,