UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 12, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) directed RUR 2m to new interactive robotics appliances for Nizhniy Tagil’s kindergartens. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘135 equipment sets got distributed among the thirty-four kindergartens EVRAZ NTMK supports. The equipment is meant to help with the plant’s early-on job counseling program (A Schoolchild Today, A Metallurgist Tomorrow) and ignite the young children’s interest in information technologies and engineering jobs,’ the Center says. The interactive

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 12, 2018. Ural Airlines introduced their new Rostov-on-Don-Tel Aviv flight this January; the flight will be operated every Wednesday, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting from March 28, 2018, you can fly to Tel Aviv for as little as $210 (one way) and $445 (round trip, all fees included). Tickets are already on offer. ‘When planning your trip to the picturesque Tel Aviv, doing a bit of sightseeing is a must. The old city of Jaffa with its curiosity shops, Rothschild Boulevard with its shady alleys, Azrieli Center, the ancient city of Jerusalem, the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 12, 2018. The company’s former Deputy DG for Service Oleg Zaitsev was recently appointed Director-General of Sinara Group’s Sinara Transport Machine’s STM-Servis. The decision was taken by the company BOD, Sinara Group’s press service reports. Alexander Izmailov, who ran the company since April 2011, will go on to work as STM-Servis’s Deputy DG for Finance & Economic Issues; he will also be in charge of business process automatization at loco depots and service centers. Oleg Zaitsev was born in 1970. He graduated from Saint Petersburg State Railway University

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 12, 2018. A new, up-to-date training simulator was recently launched at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), the company’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. MMK Director-General Pavel Shilyayev says the simulator is meant to enhance production safety. ‘However intelligent and disciplined a worker may be, due to certain psychological factors they might underestimate the actual risks related to their everyday performance. Getting used to a routine and, consequently, feeling relaxed about safety rules are the key factors behind most

UrBC, Moscow, January 12, 2018. The Deposit Insurance Agency had to lay off some 12,000 banking sector employees last year as banks’ licenses got annulled and liquidation proceedings were in progress; a year earlier, the figure was 13,500 people, RIA Novosti refers to the agency as stating. The Bank of Russia slowed down the clear-up process last year, as only fifty banks left the market in 2017 against nearly a hundred banks in 2016. The need to remove dubious lending institutions from the market will still be relevant for a while, most likely for two years or so, the Bank of Russia’s Head