UrBC, Chelyabinsk, March 19, 2018. South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry intends to help establish business ties between Chelyabinsk Region and the Republic of Crimea, the Chamber’s press service reports. According to Director of South Urals CCI Foreign Economic Activity Department Natalya Osipova, the Chamber has coordinated a number of business missions to the southern territory in the last few years. The last visit, which took place in 2017, proved particularly fruitful. ‘Chelyabinsk Region’s enterprises have a lot to offer to the Crimea. We are the leaders on the machine-building

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 19, 2018. Akademicheskiy Management Company won the local Best Management Company Contest; the competition was coordinated by Sverdlovsk Region’s Ministry for Communal Housing Services & Utilities on March 15, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. According to the event coordinators, the contest aims to distinguish companies with the best housing management practices and to help spread these practices across the constituency in order to ensure residents’ comfort and safety. ‘The contest was two-fold: first, an expert committee processed competing

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, March 19, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) keeps working to improve its personalized energy savings system, with the employees’ personal accountability for efficient use of energy resources, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘The goal is to improve the way we keep track of our resource spending and to introduce an efficiency competition. We embarked on this project as early as 2015, when costs analysis was carried out at our blast furnace department; we identified material and human resource control points and made an inventory of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 19, 2018. Five employees of ChelPipe Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) were given state awards by President Vladimir Putin’s decree, the company press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony took place in Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s office. Pipe-Rolling Department’s foreman Viktor Amelin, head of Vysota 239 Department’s Pipe-Welding Section Vassily Fadeev, and hot-roll mill operator from the plant’s Pipe-Rolling Department Sergey Kulikov were awarded the honorary titles of Russia’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 19, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Service of Court Officers collected some RUR 4bn in bank loan debts, deputy head of the service Elena Sidorova said at a press conference today. According to Sidorova, court officers had to handle a greater number of enforcement proceedings cases this year because more debt collection-related claims got placed with courts. ‘We can report an increased number of paperwork related to debt collection. The greatest number of the amounts collected last year was to do with consumer loans issued by Tinkoff Bank and