UrBC, Moscow, June 26, 2018. The ongoing increase in fuel prices on the Russian market has not affected the price of summer travel as yet, but winter trips are bound to grow at least 10% more expensive when the time comes, RIA Novosti refers to Counselor to Head of Rostourism Dmitri Gorin as stating. Russian Fuel Union (RTS) appealed to Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev in a letter, asking to ensure fair prices on the retail and wholesale fuel markets. The union believes this increase in the price of automobile and diesel fuel is unprecedented. RTS commented unfavorably on the regulatory

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, June 26, 2018. ChelPipe Group can now make large-diameter pipes from the innovative, cold-resistant K60 stripes supplied by Severstal, the Group’s press service reports. Vysota 239, a hi tech department at the Group’s Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant, made 1,200,000 kg of pipes (diameter: 720 mm and 1,020 mm; layer thickness: 19.3 mm and 27.3 mm) made from stripes manufactured at Severstal’s Mill 5000 Sheet-Rolling Department in Kolpino. These rolled metal strips possess certain properties to ensure outstanding impact strength even in extremely low temperatures (as low as 42

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 26, 2018. MMK Group’s member enterprise MMK METIZ increased its share of the Russian market by 2% in 2017 against one year earlier (total sales: 352,000,000 kg); the news was announced at the general shareholder meeting recently, MMK press service reports. Additionally, the company exported 2.8% more goods last year compared with the year 2016. The country’s largest metal goods manufacturers (all members of metallurgical holdings) sold around 2,000,000,000 kg of goods last year, which is comparable with the figures for the year 2016. The share of MMK METIZ amounted to

UrBC, Moscow, June 26, 2018. The number of respondents in a recent nationwide survey in Russia who do not believe the government will be able to provide them with a good enough pension comes to 78%, Superjob refers to its survey findings as indicating. Within those surveyed, the number of skeptical respondents who are male is greater than that of skeptical female respondents (81% and 75%, respectively). As for those who were hesitant to give a confident answer, the share of female respondents was greater here than that of male ones (16% and 9%, respectively). People seem to grow increasingly

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 26, 2018. The prime cost of agricultural produce is likely to go up by 20% to 25% due to rising fuel prices, head of Bitimsky Agricultural Cooperative Mikhail Maltsev told UrBC. According to Maltsev, the prime cost of processing agricultural raw stuffs and the cost of end user delivery will go up as well. ‘Gazpromneft upped the prices by 10% in the course of a couple of days (from RUR 47,000 per 1,000 kg to RUR 52,000, with no explanations whatsoever. Everyone in this industry is naturally indignant about the price increase,’ Maltsev said. He added certain subsidies