UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) improved the terms of its Business Privilege loan, making it more affordable, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Loans are now available to any company, regardless of whether it is already our customer or not. All you have to do is submit your application on the bank’s website. The loan amount varies between 1 and 30 million rubles and must be repaid within five years’ time. The bank sets no restrictions on how the money will be spent: funds can be used as operating cash, invested in real estate,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. Ural Airlines introduced a new scheduled flight from Novosibirsk to Shanghai recently, the air carrier’s press service reports. Travelers from Novosibirsk can fly to Shanghai for as little as 12,020 RUR (one way) starting from May 16, 2016. This special price holds for flights departing on May 16 and May 23. The flight will be operated every Monday. ‘Europe of the East’, ‘the Pearl of the Orient’, a major metropolis, a business center – this is what Shanghai is. Waitan, its waterfront area, is a city landmark where architectural styles from all over the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. Aleksandrinskaya Mining & Ore Company, a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company, bought a new front loader to improve its ore transportation process, the company press service reports. ‘To make sure a mining and metallurgical enterprise is economically efficient, copper ore needs to be supplied to the ore-dressing plant continually and with no interruptions, as any idle time at any stage of the process can result in financial loss. This is why we choose carefully our ore transportation vehicles: these must contribute to high productivity and not

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. ChTPZ Group and Surgutneftegaz signed a cooperation agreement valid through 2020. The paper was signed in Surgut last week, the Group’s press service reports. ‘ChTPZ Group and Surgutneftegaz are long-time partners who share the same values: both companies pay special attention to production culture, work on import substitution, and keep improving our produce quality. The agreement is meant to strengthen our ties and to make our relationship a more efficient one, especially in the research and development sector,’ says the Group’s Director-General Alexander

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is presenting its high-precision twenty-first-century weaponry at the DEFEXPO 2016 Exhibition in India on March 28-31, 2016, the company press service reports. ‘This is the first time our unique tank unit with a time-fuzed HE fragmentation shell detonation function designed for time-fuzed detonation of 125mm ZVOF128 rounds with fragmentation shells ZOF82 on trajectory has been presented at an international exhibition. This model outstrips all the existing counterparts,’ the press service says. The time-fuzed detonation unit can