UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant recently published a number of new books for children and teens: The Adventures of A Little Tank and Ural Vagon Zavod Tanks came out directly after Legends of Ural Vagon Zavod hit all school libraries in Nizhniy Tagil in September 2016. According to the company press service, the plant’s Executive Director Vladimir Roschupkin was the primary driving and coordinating force for the project. The Adventures of A Little Tank were written by the children’s author Svetlana Lavrova, who also wrote Legends of Ural Vagon

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) is going to deliver it marsh bulldozer B10MB to a large fishing business in Kamchatka, the plant’s press service reports. The customer is already using a couple of ChTZ’s B-170 bulldozers, as a matter of fact. ‘The vehicle will be used to unload fish onto the shore. The bulldozers are used in the following way: first, the machine prepares the needed section of the shore by making a little hill next to the waterline. Then, a barge full of fish arrives from the trawler and the bulldozer tows

UrBC, Moscow, January 27, 2016. IKEA announced a price decrease on January 26, Vedomosti refers to General Director IKEA Russia Walter Kadnar as saying. Prices will be reduced by 15% to 20% for about 20% of the retailer’s product range, that is, 1,800 different items. For some items, the price decrease will come to 40%. Kadnar points out this is a long-term program rather than just a sale or a promotion campaign. The main factor behind this is the launch of IKEA’s fifth furniture factory in Russia last fall. In fact, most of the price decreases will involve kitchen furniture and wardrobes,

UrBC, Moscow, January 27, 2016. Russians’ factual disposable incomes (the consumer price index-adjusted amount of money left once all the bills and checks have been paid) decreased by 5.9% in 2016 against a year earlier. RIA Novosti refers to Rosstat as stating that the figure went down by 6.1% in December 2016 compared with December 2015 but rose by 50.5% compared with November 2016. In 2015, the income decrease amounted to 3.2% compared with the year 2014 (the data do not take into account the population of either the Crimea or Sevastopol); the figures went up in December 2015 against

UrBC, Moscow, January 27, 2016. As of January 23, 2017, 142,600 customers of Tatfondbank received their insurance payments. The Deposit Insurance Agency reports the overall payments came to 49.65bn RUR (92% of the Agency’s liability). The money was transferred to customers through Sberbank, VTB 24, Rosselkhozbank, Bank Otkrytiye, and AK BARS Bank as the Agency’s agent banks. The Bank of Russia imposed temporary administration on Tatfondbank on December 15 and put a three-month ban on meeting creditors’ claims. The ban had to do with the fact that creditors’ existing claims were not met on