UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) looked into the results of its Children Believe in Miracles Charity Program in the first half of the year. The bank coordinated 53 charity events and directed over RUR 3.7m to support orphaned children and children with disabilities. According to the bank’s press service, some of the money got spent on supplies for live-in schools, social centers, and creches for children without parents. ‘We bought necessary things like game appliances, furniture, school supplies, hygienic items, sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) recently launched a new credit card with a 120-day grace period. The demand for the new product proved twice as high as that for any other bank cards within the first forty-eight hours of the launch date, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The demand was so high because of the advantages the new credit card has to offer. The card was developed with all the latest trends in mind: the grace period applies to all types of transactions, and you get 1% in cash back options on everything,’ the press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems introduced 126 megawatts worth of extra electric power supply to Uvatskiy group of deposits in Tyumen Oblast. The jobs were part of the agreement on connecting the power facilities of RN Uvatneftegaz to the United Energy Systems, FGC UES’s PR & Media Group in Western Siberia reports. The company’s 500-kilowatt Demyanskaya Substation (transformer capacity: 1,256.6 MVA) was launched in 1969. The station is one of the key power hubs in Tyumen Oblast that ensures power transit from the 500-kilowatt

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast residents using micro-financing services borrowed RUR 10,067 on average in the third quarter of the year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 24.5%, National Credit History Bureau reports. The increase was most pronounced in Krasnodar Territory (+55.9%), Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region (+35.5%), Novosibirsk Oblast (+32.2%), and Bryansk Oblast (+25.1%). The average loan amount actually went down in Volgograd Oblast (-3.9%), Moscow Oblast (-0.7%), and Moscow (-0.4%). ‘The average micro-loan amount keeps rising in all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. Yekaterinburg’s hunting supply stores are already looking at the losses they are likely to incur during the upcoming World Football Championship 2018, as there will be a ban on selling guns at that time. Stary Slon’s representatives told UrBC the ban falls right on the seasonal sale increase period. ‘People hunt ducks in the spring, and then sales usually peak in the summer throughout early fall. There’s nothing of the sort to be expected with this ban in place. Most likely, our only revenues will come from optical appliances and knives,’ the store