UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon presented the visually impaired children in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk with a collection of CDs with sign language interpretation and audio description options, the company press service reports. Free showing of children’s movies with subtitles and audio description components also took place in twenty-nine Russian movie theaters on November 29, 2016. In Yekaterinburg, the event was supported by Verba Fund, co-chaired by a member of Uralskiye Pelmeni team Andrei Rozhkov. In Chelyabinsk, the showing was organized

UrBC, Moscow, December 1, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), one of the world’s leading OCTG manufacturers, coordinated Investor’s Day at Moscow Exchange on November 25 with support from Aton Group, the company press service reports. The event was attended by TMK Deputy Director-General for Strategy & Development Vladimir Shmatovich, Deputy DG for Economy & Finance Tigran Petrosyan, Deputy DG for International Markets Andrei Parkhomchuk, Strategy, Risk Management, & Investor Relations Director Igor Baryshnikov, Strategic Investment Analysis & Investor Relations Director

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2016. Interest rates on foreign currency deposits offered by the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development went down by 0.25% in November, the bank’s press service reports. The bank currently offers its customers four such deposit types: Convenient, Savings, Mobile, and Multi-Currency. According to the bank’s Debit Transaction Director Olga Aksenova, this downward trend is typical of the entire banking sector. ‘Banks are offering minimum interest rates on foreign currency deposits at the moment, which has to do with the fact that there is no need to have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s souvenir shop UVZSHOP.ru opened at the domestic flights terminal in Roschino Airport in Tyumen; this is the third Russian airport (in addition to Balandino Airport in Chelyabinsk and Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg) to host the corporation’s branded clothing store, the company press service reports. Tyumen residents and visitors to the city will find a wide range of products on offer in Roschino: clothes, footwear, souvenirs, and travel accessories such as sleeping masks and glasses, comforters, memory sticks, key rings,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2016. The rating agency RAEX (Expert RA) affirmed Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s credit rating at A, promoting the company from the second to the first sub-level, with Stable rating outlook, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The positive factors to take into account were relatively high activity diversification, enhanced geographical diversification of sales network and production sites, plenty of investments in facilities maintenances and upgrades, and relatively high diversification of debts,’ the press service says. According to the agency’s