UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s analysts presented their Urals-based business customers with a number of new useful services to help them function effectively during the upcoming New Year’s break, the company press service reports. According to Superjob’s recent research findings, nearly 14% of Russians keep working during the break in order to get paid at a double rate for doing overtime. These are mostly people in the sales and service sectors. MegaFon reports text messaging proved both the easiest and the most efficient way to promote one’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2017. Russian Copper Company was given the Donors Forum Association’s certificate for introducing new social technologies that help involve local communities in urban improvements. According to the company press service, the awarding ceremony took place during the association’s general member meeting in Moscow on the eve of the Donors Forum’s 15th anniversary. The meeting covered a report on the association’s charity projects in Russia this year and the action plan for 2018. This year, Russian Copper Company implemented a number of social programs involving

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2017. More than 1,500 employees of ChTPZ Group were able to attend New Year’s shows and performances this week, the company press service reports. The performances were given in M.I. Glinka Opera House in Chelyabinsk and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s Culture Palace in Pervouralsk. ChTPZ Group’s shareholders Andrei Komarov and Alexander Fedorov, the company Director-General Boris Kovalenko, Deputy Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast Ruslan Gattarov, Mayor of Chelyabinsk Evgeny Teftelev, Mayor of Pervouralsk Valery Khorev, the Group’s top managers, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2017. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob said they would consider other options apart from Yekaterinburg Underground extension in case the city gets chosen as the host for EXPO 2025. Yakob announced the news during his interview to Open Studio. According to the official, they will have to decide whether it makes sense to introduce a second line to Yekaterinburg Underground once all the layout planning for Expo Park has been completed. In 2019, provided the city does get to host the exhibition, they will start working on public transit planning and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2017. 9.7% of Sverdlovsk Oblast-based bank loan-takers were over sixty years old as of November 2017. According to the National Credit History Bureau, the constituency comes 28th in the overall national rating of borrowers in the 60+ age group. In Russia on the whole, the share of senior-age borrowers amounted to 10.4% in November. This was 1% more than one month previously, which was the greatest increase among all age groups. The shares of successful loan applicants also went up by 0.4% in the under-25 age group, by 0.5% in the 30-39 age group, and by 0.1%