UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 30, 2018. Rimera Group’s Rimera Service in Noyabrsk (part of ChelPipe Group’s oilfield division) made and supplied to the plant its first pilot batch of 177 pumping and compression pipes (diameter: 73 mm) made by order of Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant/ChelPipe. The pipes come with wear-resistant retaining devices. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the retaining devices ensure that the threaded parts of the pipe remain airtight even after numerous landings and pulling out of strings; they also prevent any damage to the pipe surface, which expands the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 30, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Rolling Department was founded eighty-five years ago on Saturday, July 28, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The plant’s first Blooming/Billet Mill 2 was launched on July 28, 1933. This was the beginning of the plant’s rolling production facilities. The German company Demag was in charge of designing and manufacturing all the necessary blooming equipment. The USSR People’s Commissar for Heavy Industry G.K. Ordzhonikidze attended the launching ceremony. Mill 2 and two consecutive Continuous Billet Mills 630

UrBC, Moscow, July 30, 2018. A new law might be adopted in Russia in April 2019 that will make it obligatory for smartphone and computer manufacturers to preinstall Russian-developed web browsers, mail services, audio playing programs, and other apps on their products, Kommersant reports. This initiative is part of a ‘roadmap' on promoting competition that the Federal Antimonopoly Service presented to the government. The bill is to be elaborated by the Communications Ministry and co-elaborated by the FAS and the consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor. According to the proposed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 30, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s Kirovsky Court ruled that OOO Lukoil Permnefteprodukt would have to pay a local driver RUR 210,000 in compensation for the damage done to her car after it had been filled with the wrong kind of fuel, Sverdlovsk Region Court’s press service reports. The woman had her Hyundai Creta filled by an employee at a Lukoil station at 49 Vysotsky St in Yekaterinburg in January 2018; the motor died on the same day and wouldn’t restart. The driver took her car to a mechanic, where it was determined that the tank had been filled with the wrong fuel. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 30, 2018. The air in Yekaterinburg still contains dangerous amounts of formaldehyde first recorded on June 22; the concentration is believed to be hazardous to human health. According to Ural Weather Service, the formaldehyde content index stood at 1.8 points on average throughout the last thirty-plus days. On June 18-20, 2018, the index peaked at 2.4. ‘The formaldehyde index stood at the standard 1.8 points on July 23-25, 2018, which is indicates an increased emission status,’ the Service says.