UrBC, Chelyabinsk, March 22, 2018. ChelPipe Group had its pipes with premium threaded joints rebranded recently: the produce will now get branded as ЧТПЗ Прайм on the Russian market and as ChelPipe Prime on the international ones, the company press service reports. ‘ChelPipe Prime stands for the company’s unique approach to production process and its philosophy of transformation known as White-Coated Metallurgy. The rebranding is part of the Group’s strategy for development and promotion of new product types,’ says the Group’s Director-General Boris Kovalenkov. ‘Given the expected increase in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 22, 2018. Three administrative offense lawsuits have been instigated in Sverdlovsk Region following hotels overcharging their prospective customers on the World Football Championship 2018 days, local division of the consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor reports. The Russian Government actually issued a special Decree on Government Regulation of Hotel Accommodation Prices in Russian Federation Constituencies Hosting FIFA World Football Championship 2018 and FIFA Confederation Cup 2017. Rospotrebnadzor also determined that certain businesses provided accommodation

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 22, 2018. The average asking price currently comes to RUR 68,040 per m2 on Yekaterinburg existing homes market; this is 0.4% more than four weeks previously and 1% more than one year earlier, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s Analytical Department reports. Prices have been going up a little in all locations. For one, housing prices rose by as much as 4.1% in downtown Yekaterinburg in the course of four weeks, with asking price currently at RUR 98,333 per m2. As for existing homes in Yekaterinburg’s second and third most expensive locations just outside the centrally

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 22, 2018. Yekaterinburg Underground confirmed that the city’s defunct TV tower would get pulled down in the near future. ‘As the blasting/special-purpose jobs operator AO RVS is going to be pulling down the radio and TV tower at 15 Stepan Razin St, and in accordance with Yekaterinburg Council’s Decree 514 as of March 19, 2018 (On Traffic Shutdown in Stepan Razin St and Dekabristov St and Cancellation of Underground Trains from Ploschad 1905 to Botanicheskaaya Stations), no trains will be operated from Ploschad 1905 to Botanicheskaaya in both directions between 9 AM

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 22, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region Government came up with a list of local roads and highways that will undergo repairs this year, the plan is to draw up the project documentation for the needed construction and reconstruction jobs and overhauls, the Mid-Urals Information Policy Department reports. There are now eighty road sections on this list, with some of them transferred over from last year. The list covers the sections that need fixing particularly urgently because they are responsible for connecting the more remote villages and settlements to the rest of the