UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2018. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) received a thank-you certificate from the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation (ARSoNP), the plant’s press service reports. PNTZ was awarded for a number of environmental and conservation projects it implemented during the Year of The Environment in Russia last year. Experts assessed the Russian plants’ performance along a number of different criteria, including the amount of emissions they make, amount of waste produced, and capital investments in conservation projects. ‘PNTZ sees ongoing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) won the Global Banking and Finance Review magazine’s award for Mobile App of The Year in 2017. In fact, the bank also proved Eastern Europe’s No.1 online banking service in 2015, the bank’s press service reports. ‘UBRD’s mobile app has been out there since 2015 and has evolved significantly since the time of the launch, with new functions and theme settings. Now our customers can use their smartphones to pay their housing and Internet bills, pay their traffic fines and taxes, make card-to-card

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 29, 2018. Russia’s Nature Ministry awarded President of Russian Copper Company Vsevolod Levin, Deputy Director-General of Russian Copper Company Group’s Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise Nikolay Dzhemilev, and the company’s Subsurface Resource Management Department’s Senior Expert Sergey Sarychev with Deposit Discoverer honorary badges, the company press service reports. ‘The awards were given for the discovery and development of Tominsky copper/porphyry ore deposit in Chelyabinsk Oblast. A number of other prominent representatives of the national

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s application to be the hosting city for the EXPO 2025 Exhibition was presented at Davos Economic Forum. According to Director-General of EXPO 2025 Application Committee Svetlana Sagaydak, the 48th World Economic Forum’s theme (‘Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World’) strikes a chord with that of Russia’s application (‘Changing the World: Innovations and Better Life for Future Generations’). ‘Despite this modern world’s troubles, we need to think of the future we are to hand over to the coming generations. The fourth industrial

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2018. Ural Customs detected and had destroyed 302,000 kg of foods that cannot get imported to Russia due to food embargoes, head of Ural Customs Maxim Chmora said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘This was much more than in the year 2016, since we learned to identify certain import schemes and locate storage spots, which has meant we uncovered large shipments of sanctioned goods,’ Chmora said. The customs authorities initiated 4,680 administrative lawsuits in 2017, which exceeded the figures for one year previously by 70%, and 92 criminal lawsuits