UrBC, Moscow, January 12, 2016. Russians have tended to eat less meat, fish, milk, and sugar and more potatoes, melons, pumpkins, and vegetables in the last few of years, Izvestia refers to Rosstat’s report on the federal constituencies’ socioeconomic development indicators as stating. According to Rosstat, the average amount of meat, fish, milk and dairy products, and sugar a Russian eats a year dropped by 2kg, 5kg, 9kg, and 1kg, respectively, between 2013 and 2015. The average amount of consumed eggs and bread has remained the same, while that of vegetables, melons, pumpkins, and zucchini

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 12, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) renewed its Payment CardIndustry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) 3.2 for this year to prove its compliance with the world’s highest security standards, the bank’s press service reports. Now PCI DSS is the payment card security standard that accounts for information security requirements set forth by all the leading international payment systems. The standard was devised by the Payment CardIndustry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) that has Visa, MasterCard, JCB, American Express, and Discovery

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 12, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) expanded the range of products available from its rail and beam department with 22P channel bar. Over 200kg of these bars were delivered to construction sites in Moscow Region in December, the company press service reports. The hot-rolled 22P channel bar is used for making bridges and building wider flights of stairs at warehouses. The product meets GOST 8240-97 standards and can be made from carbon or low-alloyed steels. 22P channel bar is the fourth bar variety NTMK has mastered so

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 12, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine is about to start working on new Seam 6-6a (in-place reserves: over 127m tons of valuable GZh coal), EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports. The jobs are expected to begin in the third quarter of 2017 when Long-face 4-6-33 has been launched. The new seam will provide the mine with things to do through 2030; this will require some 90m RUR worth of investments. ‘Getting Seam 6-6a ready is currently Raspadskaya’s top priority project, as this will keep us afloat in the long run. Our geological surveys indicate the seam

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Corporation’s head plant is currently working to restore Exhibit 781 — the first Soviet tank fire support armored fighting vehicle designed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in the mid-eighties - for the company’s Tankprom museum, the corporation’s press service reports. Once the restoration jobs have been completed, the machine will become part of the museum’s permanent exhibition (to be opened in Nizhniy Tagil in 2020). The vehicle, based on T72 tank, arrived in Nizhniy Tagil in badly damaged condition and with some parts missing. This has to do