HomeMaterials for 27.02.2018
27 February 201811:35

ChPZ Group Sponsors Children’s Singing School in Chelyabinsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2018. A Children’s Singing School opened within M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Opera House with support from ChTPZ Group shareholder Andrei Komarov, the company press service reports. The singing school stems from the Children’s Musical School. The goal is to ensure the development of gifted young locals’ potential. ‘The children will learn signing, acting, choreography, and elocution with the help of experienced teachers, directors, choreographers, and musicians. The theater provided a special room to coordinate these classes. Students from Children’s Singing
27 February 201811:34

UBRD Offers Business Training Workshops

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 27, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s business customers will now find it easier and cheaper to learn about the latest business management techniques and attend management gurus’ workshops, the bank’s press service reports. You can now sign up for businesspeople-oriented training programs at the bank’s branches in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk. The training is coordinated by Business Education Center Group, a company that has dealt in management and employee training on the national scale since 1996. By signing up for the program through
27 February 201811:34

Sverdlovsk Oblast’s Nature Ministry Awards EVRAZ NTMK

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 27, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) received a thank-you letter and a memorial stele in recognition of its efforts to protect the environment and of its projects throughout the Year of The Environment in Russia/Year of Nature Reserves in Sverdlovsk Oblast,’ the holding’s press service reports. In 2017, EVRAZ NTMK had its dry coke-quenching plant upgraded, which reduced atmospheric emissions by 20%. This was part of the plant’s four-way agreement with Russia’s Ministry for Natural Resources & The Environment, Russia’s
27 February 201811:33

MegaFon Buys 50% Stake in Euroset

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 27, 2018. MegaFon and Veon Ltd finalized settling their respective rights to Euroset, the Russian company’s press service reports. The two parties agreed to stop doing business together at Euroset in July 2017. ‘Following a series of transactions, MegaFon purchased a 50% stake in Euroset from VEON’s Russian subsidiary VympelKom (all assets and liabilities included), which means MegaFon now has 100% ownership of the business. VympelKom, in its turn, purchased a half of Euroset’s retail outlets (around 1,800 stores altogether) and is also going to pay out RUR
27 February 201811:33

Flying to Russia 2.7 Times Costlier for Football Fans

UrBC, Moscow, February 27, 2018. Plane tickets the football fans interested in flying to Russia during the days of the Wold Football Championship of 2018 are now 2.7 times more expensive than usual, RIA Novosti refers to the booking service OneTwoTrip as stating. ‘Two parameters were taken into account. First, we found the cheapest offers on flights from the participating countries’ capitals to Moscow two months before the championship opens (April 14) and next, we did the same for offers on the opening day (June 14). Whereas April prices came to RUR 29,470 on average for thirty different