UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2018. Yekaterinburg banks report their customers are growing increasingly more interested in placing their savings onto dollar/euro deposits due to the recent weakening of the Russian ruble against the U.S. dollar and the Euro. ‘The demand for foreign currency deposits is on the rise. The number of newly opened deposits went up by 7% in August compared with July. Our customers are trying to make money out of both the interest payments and the exchange rate fluctuations,’ the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s press service reports. Now the Russian

UrBC, Moscow, August 15, 2018. The U.S. Congress’s bill on sanctions against Russia is now available on its website. To strengthen the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to combat international cybercrime, and to impose additional sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation, and for other purposes (short title: Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2018), TASS reports. The bill was introduced by Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat of New Jersey; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO); Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD); and Sen. Cynthia

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 15, 2018. MMK Kurort Management Company presented its performance report for the year 2018 so far and voiced its plans to upgrade Abzakovo and Bannoye Resorts (located, respectively, in Beloretsky and Abzelilovsky in Bashkortostan), MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The management company underwent some organizational changes this year, so that Abzakovo Resort made part of MMK Kurort. This means the company now manages both locations, Abzakovo and Bannoye. MMK Kurort is now integrating all the divisions to create a single sales and marketing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2018. 77% of MegaFon’s Sverdlovsk Region-based customers are now using 4G devices, which exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 45%, the company press service reports. MegaFon’s engineers have recently completed their 4G construction project, with twenty-three new LTE stations installed in Sverdlovsk Region all in all. The mobile Internet connection is now even faster in Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Tagil, Berezovsky, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Pervouralsk, Sredneuralsk, Sysert, and Aramil. MegaFon’s 4G network’s extended coverage means the data transfer speed is now

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 15, 2018. Maxim Koryakin, who is currently a student on ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program, won silver in the 6th WorldSkills Russia blue-collar job championship in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Koryakin competed (as member of Sverdlovsk Region’s team) in Reverse Engineering, the Group’s press service reports. The corporate program students Artem Ulyanov and Mikhail Sokhrannov also made it to Sverdlovsk Region’s team in the contest. They were, respectively, among the championship’s top ten and top five finalists. The national