UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2018. ChelPipe Group is going to take part in Innoprom 2018 International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg on July 9-12, the company press service reports. The Group’s shareholders Andrei Komarov and Alexander Fedorov and Managing Director of member enterprise Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant Alexei Dronov will represent their company at the event. The goal is to have talks with government officials and business community members, sign a number of non-profit cooperation agreements to do with educational projects, and contribute to the event’s business agenda. For

UrBC, Moscow, July 9, 2018. The difference in the average incomes of Russia’s richest and poorest nationals keeps decreasing for the second year in a row; it amounted to 15.3 times at the end of last year, head of Rosstat Alexander Surinov told Rossiyskaya Gazeta. According to Surinov, the difference was as 15.7 times in 2015 and 15.5 times in 2016. He also said 13.2% of Russians were living on less than a minimum daily wage by the end of 2017.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2018. The Bank of Russia is going to coordinate a series of trainings for small and medium enterprises this July, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation’s Ural branch’s press service reports. The workshops will be delivered at the site of Innoprom 2018 International Industrial Exhibition on July 12, 2018. ‘Experts from the Bank of Russia, Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Economics & Territorial Development, the Business Development Foundation, Moscow Exchange, and a number of for-profit banks, micro-financing institutions, and insurance companies will speak

UrBC, Moscow, July 9, 2018. Russia imported 14.7% more goods from non-NIS member states in the first half of the year compared with one year previously, the Federal Customs Service reports. ‘Based on our preliminary statistical data, the import of goods from the EU, the United States, and other non-NIS member states amounted to $103.237bn in January-June 2018, which exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 14.7%,’ the service says. As for June 2018 alone, the imports from the non-NIS member states amounted to $18.871bn, which is 3.6% more than in May 2018 and 5.6% more than in June 2017.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2018. The demand for plane tickets to Russian cities hosting the World Football Championship 2018 games rose by 6% on average and as much as tripled for certain destinations during the championship days, the flight aggregator Aviasales’ press service reports. ‘It was determined with certainty that the price of air travel to Saransk, Volgograd, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kaliningrad, and Samara got affected by football events. One day before or on the day of a game scheduled to take place in a certain location, customers searched for plane tickets to