UrBC, Moscow, June 5, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new bill on the ways Russia can counteract in response to the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and other states. The full text is available on the official legal information portal. Under the new legislature, the Russian Government, acting upon the President’s will, can introduce a range of counteractions/counter sanctions as long as these actions do not jeopardize vital commodities whose counterparts cannot be obtained from Russian/non-U.S. manufacturers. The decisions can also be made by the President based upon the Security

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 5, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Healthcare & Education Center in Magnitogorsk hosted Chelyabinsk Region’s Junior Chess Championship 2018, MMK’s press service reports. MMK sponsored the local round of the championship as well. The contestants were all children under nine, grouped into eighteen teams representing Chelyabinsk Region’s various districts and towns. Each team comprised two boys and two girls. First-graders Mikhail Andreyev and Eva Zanina from School 5, Sati Gabbasova from School 53, and Bogdan Antipin from School 13 represented the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 5, 2018. ChelPipe Group presented its new tech solutions at Modern Pipe Production Conference 2018, the company press service reports. Sixty design institutes and R&D centers in the oil and gas industry contributed to the event. The exponents looked into the new kinds of pipe produce on the market and talked about the promising venues for expanding ChelPipe’s product range. ‘ChelPipe Group keeps working to improve its existing technologies as well as to master making new pipe varieties. The Group’s member enterprises can currently manufacture a wide range of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 5, 2018. Ural Airlines got declared Taxpayer of The Year in Yekaterinburg Council’s contest once again, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The contest aims to distinguish the most bona fide taxpayers who contribute to the city’s overall development. Out of the fourteen contestants the judges’ panel selected as finalists, five made it as award winners, with Ural Airlines rated No.1,’ the press service says. In 2017, Ural Airlines paid RUR 3,157,853,000 in taxes all in all. The company also made RUR 472,574,000 worth of personal income tax payments.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 5, 2018. The developer RSG-Akademicheskoyer is coordinating a tender to find the designers for a new quarter in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy, the company press service reports. Under the terms of the contract, the designers are to produce a comprehensive development project for Quarter 11, do all the engineering survey jobs, and come up with project and design documentation for a set of apartment buildings with adjacent/built-in commercial space and underground parking lots (Blocks 11.1.1 and 11.1.2). Opening bid: RUR 48,699,038. Application deadline is