UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 22, 2018. Only 2.5% of hotel rooms are still available for the World Football Championship 2018 days in Yekaterinburg; no rooms are available at all for the days of two games out of four, Vedomosti refers to OneTwoTrip’s research findings as indicating. As for other World Cup-hosting towns, there are no available hotel rooms whatsoever in Volgograd or Saratov, while the hotels of Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, and Samara are 90% booked. Only Saint Petersburg and Sochi still have plenty of accommodation to offer. Moscow’s hotels are 78% booked, OneTwoTrip’s Business

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 22, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering plane tickets at reduced prices on January 19-22, 2018; you can book your flight using Uralairlines mobile app (and on the company website www.uralairlines.comи if you book through the call center on January 20-21), the air carrier’s press service reports. Prices for a Moscow-Tyumen/Tyumen-Moscow flight start from RUR 2,000; those for Yekaterinburg-Simferopol/Simferopol-Yekaterinburg flight start from RUR 5,000; those for Samara-Simferopol/Simferopol-Samara flight start from RUR 5,500; those for

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 22, 2018. The management of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), headed by the company Director-General Pavel Shilyayev, went on a business trip to Lysva Metallurgical Plant (LMZ) in Perm Territory, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. Pavel Shilyayev met with Governor of Perm Territory Maxim Reshetnikov during this visit. The plant’s DG made a report on MMK Group’s member enterprises’ development strategy; the strategy covers LMZ, which joined MMK Group in December 2017. Governor Reshetnikov said they would support MMK in their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 22, 2018. Ural Airlines are currently offering special prices on their Yekaterinburg-Dubai flights, the air carrier’s press service reports. You can buy your reduced-price tickets through March 23, 2018; the flights will be operated through March 23, 2018 as well. The flight from Yekaterinburg to Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and back will cost you RUR 17,000 (cabin luggage under 5kg, one piece of luggage under 10kg, and a hot meal included); the tickets are already available for purchase, and the offer is limited. Actual price may vary depending on the rate of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 22, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) came up with an improved scoring system recently. The bank introduced new software that ensures more precise processing of a borrower’s application, speeds up decision-making, and makes it possible to come up with tailor-made offers for specific customers, the bank’s press service reports. SAS RTDM already comprises the more advanced versions of the technological solutions the UBRD has been relying on (scoring models, decision trees, and external scoring data) as well as offers access to quite new