UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 13, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s T90 tank and Buratino TOS 1 heavy flamethrower made it to the list of World’s Top 5 military vehicles last year according to China Military, the company press service reports. ‘Our T90 tank made at the corporation’s head plant is on top of this list. According to China Military, this was the primary and most important armored vehicle for the Syrian Government’s armed forces. It is reported that the Russian tank proved both useful in the fight against local Islamist groups and surprisingly destruction-proof,’ the press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 13, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) won the National Environmental V.I. Vernadsky Prize, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports. The plant’s project on upgrading the facilities of Novokuznetsk’s primary employer won in the Urban Environment category. ‘For many years, the plant has been implementing large-scale environmental protection and conservation programs such as doing away with the obsolete facilities, switching to up-to-date equipment, and introducing new waste recycling technologies. We have a list of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 13, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) coordinated its first Winter Break Project for children living in foster homes and social security centers for the first time this year; this is part of the bank’s Children Believe in Miracles program, the bank’s press service reports. Fifteen teenagers from Bogdanovich, Kachkanar, Nizhniy Tagil, and Pervouralsk came to the bank’s head office on January 15 to take part in a ‘grown-up life workshop’. ‘The goal was to use the following five days to motivate the teens to seek work and learn to live

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 13, 2017. 43,290 kg of sanctioned foods were confiscated and destroyed in Sverdlovsk Region last year, Rosselkhoznadzor’s local division’s press service reports. It was detected the Russian plant quarantine requirements were not complied with in 457 instances, including 206 cases of failure to meet Koltsovo Airport’s sanitary control standards. 454 fines (total amount: 577,800 RUR) were issued by the customs authorities, of which 506,100 RUR (96%) have been paid so far. Also, 235 warrants were issued to the non-complying companies.

UrBC, Moscow, January 13, 2017. Old-age insurance pensions will get a 5.4% inflation adjustment on February 1, 2017; this increase in comparable with the actual inflation rate in 2016, Labor Minister Maxim Topilin informed reporters following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with the Cabinet officials, TASS reports. ‘Pensions will get inflation-adjusted on February 1, 2017. Rosstat carried its consumer price index report for the year 2016, and their inflation figures state at 5.4%, so all insurance pensions will go up by 5.4% on February 1,’ Topilin is quoted as saying. According to