UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers can make card-to-card transfers on the bank’s website free of charge on August 1-31, 2018, the bank’s press service reports. The service is available on www.ubrr.ru and no sign-up/sign-in is necessary. ‘We introduced p2p transfers on our website around a month ago. Since then, the number of such transactions has been rising by 20% every week. Around 40% of these transactions are transfers to UBRD cards from cards issued by other banks. The average transaction amount comes to RUR 9,350; the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 2, 2018. MMK Group’s OOO Ogneupor coordinated an amateur sports tournament among its workers last month. The event’s final stage - triathlon - took place at Veterok Resort, MMK’s press service reports. The sports competition gathered together both the tournament contestants and their supporters as well the plant’s long-service employees. Ogneupor’s Senior Engineer Andrei Anisimov, Chair of the Trade Union Zufar Zyabbarov, and General & Social Issues Manager Denis Roslyakov all welcomed the visitors to the event. The tournament began as early as January and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2018. The number of MegaFon’s cash-back option #Специи rose by nearly 70% by the middle of summer vacation season, the telecommunications provider’s press service says. The Urals are now the third biggest market for the service, only outstripped by Moscow Region and the Volga Region. People mostly make their purchases on AliExpress, MegaFon.ru, and booking.com. ‘As for the breakdown within Ural Region, customers based in Sverdlovsk Region, Yugra, and Tyumen Region accumulate more cash-back bonuses than any others: 25%, 20%, and 12%, respectively, of the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 2, 2018. Workers of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and MMK Group’s other member enterprises whose children start school this year are going to receive an allowance to help get their children ready for school, MMK press service reports. ‘Families with seven-year-olds will receive RUR 2,000 to RUR 2,500 to buy school supplies between July and September as part of the company’s mother-and-child and pro-natalist programs,’ the press service says. More than 2,000 families are expected to receive the allowance. The money is paid to either one of the parents or

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2018. Ural Airlines reintroduced its Saint Petersburg-Namangan flights at the end of July, the air carrier’s press service reports. All flights get operated on the modern and comfortable Airbus 320 liners every Wednesday; departure time (Pulkovo Airport): 10:00 PM; arrival time (Namangan Airport): 4:45 AM. ‘Namangan is Uzbekistan’s second largest city, the first one being Tashkent. This is the center of Namangan Region. The city is famous for its ancient history: for one, you can see the ruins of the old Mongolian city of Aksikent there. There’s also Chartak