UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2017. Russian Copper Company is going to implement a large-scale action plan next year intended to prevent occupational health hazards and accidents at work, the company press service reports. To make this possible, the company signed a job safety cooperation agreement with 3M Russia for the year 2018. The paper was signed during the corporate job safety conference attended by Russian Copper Company Group’s job safety experts. The conference covered a report on the experts’ performance in 2017 and a roadmap for the year 2018 that included projects to improve

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2017. Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District and Ural State University of Economics signed an agreement to set up a Chair for Communal Housing Services & Utilities on December 25, 2017, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. According to the company, the new district’s engineering infrastructure keeps growing, new technologies are being used, so there’s great demand for skilled workers, who are hard to find. The agreement was signed by RSG-Akademicheskoye’s Director-General Viktor Kisselev and Rector of USUE Yakov Silin.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 26, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Metallurg Charity Foundation coordinated a special event for its charity project participants, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. 60 multiple-children families (270 people altogether) gathered together at Jazz Cinema in Magnitogorsk. ‘Our project to support families with special-needs children is one of Metallurg’s oldest programs. This includes paying for the children’s medications, lab tests, medical treatment, and their therapy at the medical and social support centers, helping these

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2017. SKB-Bank signed three government contracts with Novosibirsk Oblast, promising to provide RUR 500m in credit lines on each contract within three to four years’ time, the bank’s press service reports. According to Novosibirsk Oblast’s Finance Ministry, the interest rates were set at 10,43% to 11.21% a year. The funds will be directed to offsetting temporary cash shortages and to paying off current debts in compliance with Novosibirsk Oblast Budget Act. ‘It is delightful to have a sovereign-rating borrower on our loan book now. We hope to keep on

UrBC, Moscow, December 26, 2017. Russians spent RUR 4.4 trillion on new and used cars this year, Avtostat reports. According to the agency’s data, 1.3m new cars were purchased (average price of a car: RUR 1.329m), which amounted to over RUR 1.7 trillion all in all. The used cars market proved nearly twice as large, with RUR 2.7 trillion spent on 4.8m used cars (average price: RUR 554,300). Moscow market was Russia’s No.1, with revenues at RUR 565bn. Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk were the country’s second and third largest car markets, with revenues at RUR 260bn and RUR 52bn, respectively.