UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. President of Russian Copper Company Vsevolod Levin presented its company’s Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company’s investment projects at a recent meeting chaired by Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast, the company press service reports. ‘The company intends to upgrade its processing plant. The key task is to replace all the filtering equipment (ceramic copper and zinc concentrate filters) with up-to-date filtering presses. This upgrade will make the plant more environmentally safe, reduce the residual moisture content in the concentrates by nearly 1.5 times,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. ChTPZ Group is now the first Russian company to supply split tees to Gazprom, the company press service reports. The tees were made at the Group’s ETERNO. The split tees will be used for capital repairs of the second line of Vuktyl-SGPZ (Gazprom Dobycha Krasnodar) condensate pipeline. ETERNO’s produce will allow for repairs without interrupting any oil/gas transfer. As it happens, Russian oil and gas companies used to have to rely on foreign manufacturers for their split tees before. ‘Making import substitution items for the oil and gas industry is one

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) introduced a number of new products for its small business customers: they can now benefit from two new overdraft options, the bank’s press service reports. Small enterprises are getting increasingly more interested in the bank’s overdraft offers, as this is a convenient way to make up for cash shortage and pay all salaries and rent in time. The bank provided its customers with 25% more overdrafts in January-September 2017 compared with one year earlier, whereas the overall overdraft amount was

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 3, 2017. ChTPZ Group shareholder Andrei Komarov helped coordinate a children’s musical contest in Chelyabinsk Oblast, the company press service reports. Now the musical called Look at Me Flying! will open the Group’s 15th Snezhnost Charity Festival. The title was suggested by one of the students at the children’s musical school Valeria Korolkova. The best title contest opened on the day musical rehearsals began in October. The young actors involved in the musical, children from the Group’s Culture Palace arts and crafts clubs, and children from Foster Home 8 all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast-based Russians placed 469 complaints relating to quality and safety of medical services they received with the local division of Roszdravnadzor in the nine months of the year. This was 26% more than one year earlier, Roszdravnadzor reports. The overall number of queries rose by 32.7%, from 660 yo 876. In addition to complaining about the quality of medical services, locals also asked questions about state-funded medicines and distribution of prescription drugs, medical goods, and medical appliances. There are 23.67 queries per every