UrBC, Moscow, January 24, 2018. Rostourism came up with a black list of hotels that charge extremely high prices for their rooms during the days of the World Football Championship this year, head of Rostourism Oleg Safonov said in his interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. According to Safonov, forty-one hotels in Volgograd, Samara, Kaliningrad, and Rostov Oblasts, in Krasnodar Territory, and in Moscow have been blacklisted so far. ‘Some of the hotels charge 260% more than their normal price, or even higher. We intend to publish the list in the nearest future; the list is based on our checks of how

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2018. 463,511 consumer loans were issued to Sverdlovsk Oblast-based borrowers last year, which exceeded the figures for one year previously by 25.2%, National Credit History Bureau’s research findings indicate. In Russia on the whole, 15.25 loans got issued, which was 20.9% more than in 2016. ‘Banks have been offering more consumer loans to their applicants as the economy is gradually growing more stable. Both creditors and borrowers (who started coming to banks for loans once again) proved more active last year. The factors at work were reduced interest rates

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2018. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) is going to supply to Rosneft 8,000,000 kg of hi tech pumping and compression pipes with 13% Сr (Chrome 13) content and TMK UP PF premium, gas-proof threaded joints, the company press service reports. Based on the terms of the tender, TMK is to deliver the pipes to Rosneft’s daughter enterprises RN Vankor, RN Stavropolneftegaz, and ROSPAN International. The entire shipment will be manufactured at Sinara Pipe Plant. The pipes will get delivered to customer in 2018-2019. TMK has been supplying pipes to Rosneft with 13%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2018. Sverdlovsk Oblast’s heating power end users owe their supplier Energosbyt Plus more than RUR 5.5bn in unpaid bills as of January 1, 2018, the supplier’s press service reports. Yekaterinburg remains the problem city, with unpaid debts at some RUR 4.2bn. The end users based in Nizhnyaya Tura and Lesnoy owe RUR 554m and RUR 210m, respectively. The primary debtors are actually the public housing services companies (their debt stands at RUR 4.3bn), followed by a number of state-run organizations (RUR 260m), industrial enterprises (RUR 65m), and private

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2018. SKB-Bank was among the top Housing Mortgage Lending Agency’s loan refinancing banks and proved No.1 bank with the most popular loan offers, the bank’s press service refers to BankInformService’s rating as stating. According to this rating, Sverdlovsk Oblast’s mortgage market hit a peak last year and did better than even in 2014. The overall market growth reached a whopping 43% compared with the year 2016. Experts single out three primary mortgage lending trends: increased demand for loan refinancing, discounts offered by housing developers, and dropping