UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 24, 2018. A new football pitch opened at MMK Children’s Health & Education Center today, MMK’s press service reports. ‘It only took a month to put up this amazing sports playground here. Special-purpose coating, certified running tracks, and so on: we did everything to make sure children’s sports practices could be efficient as well as safe. The stadium is fit for tournaments and relay races and will serve as a site for all kinds of championships in all kinds of sports,’ the press service says. The coating got tested immediately: a football championship was

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering additional flights from Chita to Moscow and back. Flight U6 467/468 will be operated every Friday and Sunday on July 29-September 9, 2018. Departure time (Moscow): 9:25 PM; departure time (Chita): 11:00 AM, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘No changes will be made in the current timetable, just a number of extra flights will be added to ensure more flexibility and the convenience of connecting flights for our customers,’ the press service says. There are government-subsidized discounts available on the flights: people

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2018. 35% of Russians who now make purchases at online shops abroad will stop doing so if the customs duty will get imposed on purchases exceeding €200 in value. Shopping abroad will simply no longer be worth it, the survey respondents explain to Romir Holding. 22% of those surveyed said they would look for ways to avoid customs duty and 27% said they were keeping track of the proposed changes in the legislation. Only 9% of respondents said they were willing to go on shopping online despite the new duty. As it happens, the share of online shoppers who buy over

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 24, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is contributing to the company’s job counseling project, MMK press service reports. The project was originally proposed by the Children’s Arts & Crafts Center in Magnitogorsk’s District Ordzhonikidzevsky. The Center’s employee and the project manager Evgenia Moskaleva believes a company as large as MMK has a lot of corporate social responsibility to stay aware of. The local youth aren’t necessarily aware of what the company has to offer and often leave after they finish school. What is more, the young men and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new flight from Moscow Region’s Zhukovsky Airport to Kaliningrad; the flight will be available every Saturday, the air carrier’s press service reports. U6 637 will be available between July 28 and September 29, 2018. Departure time (Zhukovsky Airport): 6:30 PM; flight duration: two hours; prices start from: RUR 5,000 (all fees included). ‘Kaliningrad, formerly the German town of Königsberg, is a bit of Europe on the map of Russia, or a bit of Russia on the map of Europe. Even though the old city had beed destroyed and the