UrBC, Moscow, November 9, 2016. The awarding ceremony of Russian Metal Goods Suppliers’ Union took place in Moscow during the recent Metal Week. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ MMK Trading House was Best-Developing Sales Network, just like last year. In 2015, MMK Trading House sold over 1,000,000,000kg of metal goods on domestic market, which was 21% better than in the year 2014. Also, the company’s warehouse facility in Schelkovo proved Russia’s Best Metal Goods Service Center 2016 because of its leadership in rolled metal sheet recycling outputs. Finally, MMK Trading House division in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s department heads and directors are currently undergoing a continuous professional development course (dubbed Executives’ School) on the head plant’s premises, the company press service reports. For the next seven months, twenty students on the course will work on four training modules (HR Management, Accounting, Lean Production, and Production Organization) every Friday and Saturday. A certificate will be issued to the course participants upon each module’s completion. The training sessions and workshops will be conducted

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2016. Four employees of EVRAZ Holding Siberia division won silver at the national blue-collar job championship WorldSkills Hi Tech, the company press service reports. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Metallurgical Works’ electric repair mechanic Evgeny Tyutyunnik came second in Wiring; the plant’s electronic equipment engineers Dmitri Fitz and Maxim Nutrikhin won silver in Mechatronics; Evrazruda’s electric/gas welder Alexei Shchitov won the second prize in Welding Technologies. ‘We trained quite hard for this contest. The corporate round of the WorldSkills

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2016. The number of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s e-banking users rose by 22% between September 2015 and September 2016, the bank’s press service reports. Additionally, the number of online transactions (including those involving information services) went up by 64%. This means the bank’s private customers prefer to handle their finances without setting foot outside their homes increasingly more often. According to the bank’s data, customers who have salary accounts with the UBRD use online banking services more often than other customer

UrBC, Moscow, November 9, 2016. The amount of goods imported to Russia between January and October 2016 decreased by 1% compared with one year earlier and thus came to $131.5bn RUR, in monetary terms, RIA Novosti refers to the Federal Customs Service as stating. In October, imports amounted to $15.611bn, which exceeded the figures for the previous month by 1%. Imports from countries other than the CIS member states amounted to $132.84bn RUR in January-October 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2016. When it comes to theft of electronic equipment in Sverdlovsk Region-based offices, crime detection rate went from 85.7% in 2015 down to 80% in 2016, Yekaterinburg’s Internal Affairs Ministry division refers to their Sverdlovsk Region HQ as stating. All in all, ten criminal lawsuits were instituted in Yekaterinburg concerning office equipment theft in the last nine months, compared with fourteen cases last year. The division does not specify how many complaints have actually been placed with the authorities this year so far, and how many claims got