UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Holistic Risk Management Director Dmitri Zavyalov is confident the Central Bank won’t let the refinancing rate decline by any more than 0.5%. ‘Russia’s inflation rate has been gradually going down for the last few months, from 7.5% in June down to 6.9% in August, for example. People’s inflation expectations are also changing. Based on the Central Bank’s August 2016 report, the number of survey respondents who expect the inflation to slow down next year rose by 2%, up to 18% altogether. At the same

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2016. Ural Airlines are introducing a new Yekaterinburg-Tbilisi flight on October 31, 2016. The flight will be available throughout the entire winter season. According to the company press service, prices start from 130 euros (one way) and 260 euros (round trip), excluding the fees. Flights will be operated every Monday on the European concern Airbus’s liners that have both Economy and Business seat options. ‘Georgia is a great place to go any time of the year. The long (sun)bathing season means you can go for a plunge in the sea even in late fall. Snow, on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ) is going to have a warplane from the eighties installed at the plant entrance, the company press service reports. ‘A SU-17 will be mounted on a pedestal to become both the plant’s and the city’s landmark. The plane parts that are currently lying around waiting to be put together are already getting lots of attention from passers-by and neighboring plants’ workers,’ the press service says. The plane parts, delivered in several installments from a military unit in Orenburg Region, are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2016. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company got fourteen of its 110-kilowatt and 220-kilowatt voltage transformer sets replaced with new ones at Urengoy, a 220-kilowatt substation in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems Western Siberia’s PR & Media Center reports the replacement resulted in more reliable power supply to the largest oil and gas companies in the area and to the town of Novy Urengoy (population over 110,000 people). ‘Transformer sets got replaced within the framework of the company’s investment program. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is currently taking part in the international military exhibition Africa Aerospace & Defence at Watercloof military base in Pretoria, SAR (open since September 14). The company press service reports the corporation’s stand features models of products by three of its member enterprises: Ural Vagon Zavod (Nizhniy Tagil), Omsktransmash (Omsk), and Uraltransmash (Yekaterinburg). The corporation is demonstrating its fire support vehicle Terminator, the tanks T-90S and T-72, and the heavy rocket propelled flame thrower