UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2017. Ural Airlines became partner for the computer-animated feature film Ferdinand produced by the 20th Century Fox Animation and the Blue Sky Studios and supported the film showing around Russia, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The new animation film hits the Russian screens around New Year and is a great choice for family viewing. This is an extraordinary story of a pacifist bull from Spain who likes to look at flowers and stretch on a sunny lawn but gets chosen for a bull fight instead,’ the press service says. Ferdinand’s Russian-speaking voice

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2017. Russian Copper Company took part in EcoTech 2017 International Forum in Moscow on December 12-14, 2017, the company press service reports. The company stand featured its key projects to make up for the environmental damage done to Chelyabinsk Oblast’s industrial towns in the twentieth century. The initiatives to reclaim and rehabilitate the deteriorated lands in Karabash and to refill the used-up Korkinsky Mine were commented on as the breakthrough projects of vital importance to the Southern Urals. Russia’s Ministry for Natural Resources &

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 19, 2017. The local Collective Agreement/Protection of Workers’ Social & Labor Rights Contest was held in Chelyabinsk recently, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. Chelyabinsk Oblast-based enterprises and organizations in both state-funded and non-state-funded sectors competed in the event. Their performance was evaluated against the following criteria: workers’ pay, welfare benefits, employment schemes, personnel development, and social responsibility programs. A number of MMK Group’s member

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2017. Ural Airlines are now offering tickets for children, young people, and retirees at half-price if they book at the company call center or booking offices. ‘New Year’s is the biggest national family event, so people usually give presents to their nearest and dearest. Ural Airlines are giving a 50% discount on tickets for children, people under 23 years old, and women over 55 and men over 60,’ the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer holds from December 15, 2017 to January 10, 2018 and applies to all domestic flights as well as international ones

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2017. The overall output of ready metal goods (except for machines and equipment) by Sverdlovsk Oblast-based manufacturers dropped by 9.8% in the course of one year, Sverdlovskstat reports. At the same time, the metal goods output decreased by 39.9% in November 2017 compared with October 2017 and by 54% compared with November 2016. Ready metal goods manufacturers’ turnover amounted to RUR 107.136bn in eleven months of the year, which was 7% less than one year earlier. All in all, Sverdlovsk Oblast-based companies in the processing industry increased their