UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 10, 2018. UBRD Capital Designated Activity Company made all the payments on the 9th coupon (out of eleven all in all) to the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s subordinate Euro bonds. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) acts as the bond issue guarantor, while Ireland-based UBRD Capital Designated Activity Company acts as the issuer; BCP Securities, BNP Paribas, and Sberbank CIB act together as the backers for the entire affair. ‘The bonds were issued in June 2013, with a 5.5-year circulation period. The redemption date is set at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 10, 2018. Ural Airlines introduced their new, Moscow-Warsaw flight on December 28, 2017, when flight U 819 departed from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, the air carrier’s press service reports. The plane landed in Warsaw at 12:35 PM (local time). Flights to Warsaw were operated five times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays between December 28, 2017 and January 10, 2018. Starting from February 12, 2018, the flights will be available thrice a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The in-flight time is estimated at 2 hours and 10 minutes.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 10, 2018. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development completed all the basics assembly jobs at Yekaterinburg Arena, one of the stadiums soon to host the World Cup 2018, the Group’s PR Center reports. Rostechnadzor certified the building for compliance with all the technical requirements and design documentation on December 29, 2017. The new stadium is fit for 35,000 visitors. The building relies on the most up-to-date engineering solutions and technologies. The project is unique in that the reconstruction kept all the cultural heritage objects intact. Moreover, over 4,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 10, 2018. The number of mortgages issued to Yekaterinburg-based borrowers went up by 29% in the ten months of 2017 compared with January-October 2016, RIA Nedvizhimost refers to United Credit Bureau’s Deputy Director-General Nikolay Myasnikov as saying. According to Myasnikov, the number of new loans issued in Moscow and Moscow Oblast in January-October 2017 rose by 25% compared with one year previously, whereas the number of new mortgages rose by 36%. In Saint Petersburg, the number of new mortgages increased by 23% against one year earlier, while the overall

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 10, 2018. Between August 6, 2015 and January 9, 2018, Rosselkhoznadzor officers confiscated 19,400,000 kg of embargoed food items that got imported from countries Russia imposed an import ban on. 19,100,000 kg of confiscated foods were destroyed, the agricultural watchdog reports. The overall confiscated amount included 18,655,000 kg of items of vegetable origin and 723,700 kg of those of animal origin. The food embargo was introduced in Russia on August 7, 2014 and currently applies to foods imported from the U.S., Australia, Norway, and Canada. Starting from