UrBC, Moscow, August 16, 2018. The price of jet fuel might increase by around 30% by the end of 2018 against one year previously, TASS refers to Russia’s Transport Minister Evgeny Ditrikh as stating. According to the Transport Ministry, airlines’ losses incurred through soaring jet fuel prices will amount to RUR 50bn by the end of the year, which is why the ministry suggested that the Russian Government and the Finance Ministry might partially compensate the air carriers for their extra expenses. The amounts proposed might come to RUR 22.5bn from the budget funds. ‘We expect the overall

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s Gagarinsky Sports Facility in Pervouralsk embarked on its summer job counseling program, the company press service reports. More than five hundred talented children aged 6.5 to 17 from all over Russia joined the program. There are tech crafts workshops available for the program participants to help them develop their engineering and designing skills, spatial intelligence, interest in precise sciences, and teamwork skills. The children will also learn about engineering graphics, prototyping, LEGO design, and metal treatment. Additionally,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2018. A consumer loan issued by Sverdlovsk Region-based banks in the second quarter of the year amounted to RUR 209,900 on average, the National Credit History Bureau’s data indicate. This is up 24.6% on one year earlier, when the average consumer loan amount stood at RUR 168,400. Sverdlovsk Region comes 6th in the national rating in terms of average consumer loan amounts. In the country on the whole, the average consumer loan amount came to RUR 196,800 in the second quarter of 2018, which exceeds the figures for one year earlier (RUR 145,200) by 35.5%. ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2018. MegaFon is now Russia’s first ISP and mobile carrier to offer the trade-in options for badly damaged iPhones, the company press service reports. Starting August 13, you can trade your Apple 4s and later versions in; the company’s 1,300 outlets in thirty-two Russian constituencies now accept devices with any kind of cracks and chipped surfaces. The only proviso is that the screen sensor still works and all the images and menu panels still get displayed properly. ‘Judging by our stats, iPhones of all generations are the most popular trade-in devices with

UrBC, Nizhniy Tagil, August 16, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Intergraed Metallurgical Works (NTMK) sent over 700,000 kg of H-beams off to a would-be international cruise liner and freight/passenger ship seaport in Pionersky, Kaliningrad Region, the company press service reports. The 40K H-beams (length: 12 meters) are meant for the construction of the quays. The port is scheduled to open at the end of 2019. Pionersky is located quite conveniently to serve as a hub of a large destination network for cruise liners and freight/passenger ships. The terminal will have all the necessary