UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 25, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) plans to invest some RUR 5.5bn in a number of environmental projects this year, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by nearly 40%, Maxim Yurchenko from MMK’s Environmental Protection Lab said at a recent International/Local Environmental Protection Experience Conference in Lipetsk. ‘Yurchenko made a detailed report on MMK’s green projects at the conference. The plant adopted an environmental management system as early as 2004; the system got re-certified for compliance with the international ISO 14001

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 25, 2018. Ural Airlines intend to keep operating their new additional Saint Petersburg-Tbilisi-Saint Petersburg flight in the winter, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting October 2, 2018, the flight will be operated every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. The flight was originally introduced as a complementary one to the flights available on odd days in the week and will still be available in the winter period. U6 2801/2802 takes three hours and fifteen minutes; departure time (Saint Petersburg): 04:30 AM; arrival time (Tbilisi): 08:55 AM. More flights to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 25, 2018. ChelPipe Group is looking for applicants to enroll on its new Leadership Program — a master course at National University of Science & Technology (NUST MISIS), the company press service reports. Eligible to apply are graduates of Russian colleges under thirty years of age with a bachelor’s degree. They will major in Metallurgy and Technological Machines & Appliances. The two-year program covers courses on the most advanced technologies and trends in the metallurgical sector delivered by NUST MISIS’s best faculty members and ChelPipe Group’s leading

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 25, 2018. The entrance section of Clinic 32 in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Region, will undergo a large-scale renovation, Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s Information & PR Department reports. The renovation jobs are part of the Lean Clinic Project coordinated by Rosatom State Corporation and Russia’s Federal Medico-Biological Agency; the project touches upon the cities and towns where Rosatom operates its nuclear power facilities. The goal is to ensure the clinic’s more efficient performance, cut down on patients’ waiting time, streamline the patients more

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 25, 2018. Retail price of gasoline rose by 9.1% on Sverdlovsk Region market in January-May 2018 compared with one year earlier and currently comes to RUR 40.8 per liter on average, deputy head of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division Ekaterina Vorobieva said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. According to Vorobieva, the average retail price came to RUR 35.4 per liter in the year 2016; the figure went up to RUR 37.4 in 2017 (up 5.6%). A liter of diesel fuel could be had for RUR 37 on average in 2016 and for RUR 39.16 a year