UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 9, 2018. Matryoshka doll is going to be Yekaterinburg’s EXPO 2025 ambassador, Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast Evgeny Kuivashev announced on his Instagram account. ‘#Matryoshkа4Expo and #МатрешкаЗаЭкспо hashtags will hit the social networks to support our application very soon,’ the Governor said. Yekaterinburg applied for the right to host the EXPO 2025 Exhibition and is now competing for the privilege with Baku and Osaka. This is the second time the Russian city is applying for this. This time, the theme runs as follows: Changing the World: Innovations and Better

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 9, 2018. Polymeric Composite Materials Center/CentroTech (a member of Rosatom’s TVEL) launched three new production sites for making various items from polymeric composite materials, TVEL’s press service reports. The new facilities will be used for spraying of seamless, abrasion-proof coatings (meant to protect the surface of an item from mechanical damage), spraying of gel coats (i.e. modified resins used in composite material coating), and multi-faceted processing of glass-carbon plastics (spraying, injection, and winding). CentroTech’s new produce is quite

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 9, 2018. KORTROS Group’s RSG-Akademicheskoye made a presentation of the development of Akademicheskiy District in Yekaterinburg to a group of Indian developers, the company press service reports. The two parties’ business meetings were part of Russia’s partner program in India coordinated by Senior Architect’s School. ‘Our Indian partners presented to us the country’s rich historic heritage created by the famous Le Corbusier as well as modern architectural pieces. For one, we looked at Supernova, a multi-function building in the sprawling Noida New Delhi,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 9, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the Russian Business Leaders/Dynamics & Responsibility Contest; the event gets coordinated by the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs every year, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The company won in the Cadre Potential Development category. The awarding ceremony took place in Moscow on February 7, 2018 as part of the Union’s Russian Business Week. This is not the first time MMK has won an award for its personnel policy. In the past, the company also won in High CSR

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 9, 2018. Ural Federal District’s locals spent 11.1% less money on consumer goods in January 2018 compared with one year earlier, Romir’s research findings indicate. On the other hand, Russians living in the south of the country actually spent 20.1% more than one year previously and those living in the Volga Region spent 10.6% more. The consumer spending of those based in North-Western Federal District, Siberia and the Far East, and Central Federal District declined by 2.3%, 4.7%, and 8%, respectively. The country’s average consumer spending declined by 1.2% in