UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 20, 2017. Deputy Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexei Orlov chaired a meeting on complaints Sverdlovsk Region-based workers recently placed with Russian President Vladimir Putin; the complaints all have to do with employers failing to pay the workers’ wages in time, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The meeting participants dwelled on the wage arrears at Elmash (UETM), as the company workers complained to Vladimir Putin about the delays. The plant’s CFO Natalya Bogdanova said the company did struggle with certain wage arrears, but

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 20, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) reduced its minimum mortgage rate down to 10% a year, the bank’s press service reports. As a matter of fact, most Russian bank in the national top thirty segment have been making their mortgages more affordable since the start of the year. The UBRD is keeping up with the market trend and has brought its interest rate down twice this year so far: by 1.2% in April and by 0.8% in July. The bank entered the mortgage lending market on March 1. Mortgages are available for customers willing to buy a place

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 20, 2017. Ural Airlines are launching a new flight from Moscow Region’s Zhukovsky Airport to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, the air carrier’s press service says. This is, as it happens, the seventh destination now available through the airline from Zhukovsky International Airport. The direct flight to Tbilisi will be operated twice a week, every Monday and Saturday. It takes two hours and thirty-five minutes to get there. Prices start from €64 (one way, all fees included, a 10 kg piece of luggage and 5 kg of cabin luggage included); the price offer holds through July 31,

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 20, 2017. ChTPZ Group is going to supply some 400,000 kg of steel pipes and pipeline bends to Georgian Gas Transportation Company, the Group’s press service reports. The shipment will comprise a number of welded large-diameter pipes, weldless hot- and cold-deformed pipes, and over 60 kinds of bends. The produce has been made at the Group’s SOT, ETERNO (ChTPZ Group and Rosnano’s joint venture), Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant. This is the first time the Group will deliver some pipeline bends to Georgia. These will be used for pipeline

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 20, 2017. The overall beef and poultry production industry’s output declined by 4% in Sverdlovsk Region in the first half of the year compared with one year earlier and thus amounted to 116,300,000 kg in live weight terms, Sverdlovskstat reports. At the same time, milk production has been on the rise, with the output of 349,800,000 kg, up by 5.3% on one year earlier. Egg production rose by 1.7% and reached 736,2m On the whole, all local farms tend to have fewer head of cattle and less poultry at the moment. The cattle stock dropped 1.5% in June 2017 against one year