UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2018. Miners at EVRAZ Holding’s Mezhegeyugol Mine in Tyva proved the first to launch a set of self-advancing prop units in Russia, the holding’s res service reports. The coal is extracted from the mine through chamber-and-pillar/taking-down coal bed stoping. The new equipment will ensure safe mining process at Mezhegeyugol Mine and will also boost labor productivity. The coal extraction coefficient for valuable Zh coal type will rise to as much as 78%. For one, the miners made 35,000,000 kg of coal in June and 10,000,000 kg more in the following month already.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 3, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works/MMK Group’s net profit (calculated in accordance with the IAS) amounted to $671m in the first half of the year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 24.7%, the financial report on MMK Group’s website states. The Group’s revenues rose by 16% in January-June 2018 compared with one year earlier and reached $4.161bn. According to MMK analysts, the increase has to do with growing sales (+2.1%) as well as bigger average sale prices. The company’s EBITDA came to $1.21bn in the first half of 2018, which exceeded the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) took legal action regarding an advertisement featuring B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University, the FAS’s press service reports. Legal proceedings got instituted after a private individual complained about an advertisement they saw on a wall at 119 Malyshev St/32 Mira St in Yekaterinburg on June 21, 2018; the advertisement read, ‘UFU Is Russia’s Best College’. The complainant pointed out the advertisement failed to provide any evidence to support their claim that UFU actually is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2018. UralVagonZavod Scientific & Production Corporation (UVZ) declined to comment on Russian Vice Premier Yuri Borissov’s recent announcement that buying the corporation’s Armata platform-based T14 tanks would be inexpedient. This is the answer UrBC received from UVZ press service after inquiring if the company knew the Defense Ministry had changed its mind about purchasing the new-generation, Armata-based tanks, and if the company thought it likely that orders for their vehicles would still get placed by the Russian Government, despite the announcement.

UrBC, Moscow, August 3, 2018. Rectors of Higher School of Economics and Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) Yaroslav Kuzminov and Anatoly Torkunov intend to appeal to Russia’s Vice Premier Tatiana Golikova, who is in charge of all the social issues, asking to have the student loan system reintroduced. The plan was announced during a recent press conference on the results of this year’s college enrollment campaign, RIA Novosti reports. ‘Our tuition fees come to quite a bit, so we need some intermediary mechanisms for this. Ideally, these mechanisms should be provided by