UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 20, 2018. Students from Children’s Singing School (set up at ChelPipe Group’s shareholder Andrei Komarov’s initiative) performed at ChelPipe Group-supported Yelanchik Summer Camp, the company press service reports. The young singers presented a portion of Look At Me Flying!, a family musical; together with their teachers, they also coordinated a first-stage casting session among the campers. ‘Taking part in a casting session is a great opportunity for gifted children to reveal their hidden talents. This is the opportunity we gave the children at Yelanchik today.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 20, 2018. Sixty Magnitogorsk retirees are going to get medical treatment at MMK Metallurg Charity Foundation’s Healthcare/Social Welfare Center this month; this is the fourth shift of patients joining the program this summer so far, MMK’s press service reports. The program will be over on August 28; the patients will have time to complete their primary treatment plan, get an orthopaedic surgeon’s advice, improve their Nordic walking skills, and attend water fitness classes. Walking Without Pain is Metallurg’s socially important project that got selected by

UrBC, Moscow, August 20, 2018. A bill proposed by Russia’s Communications Ministry is now available on the federal web portal for draft laws and regulations. Under the terms of the proposed legislation, mobile carriers will have to use Federal Security Service-approved encryption for their SIM cards, which might mean all current subscribers would have to switch to new-format SIMs. So far, an amendment has been made to the bill following negotiations with the country’s leading ISPs/mobile carriers and experts (MTS, VimpelCom, MegaFon, Rostelecom, and the International Communications Academy)

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 20, 2018. Koltsovo Airport Customs officers detained a number of international-flight passengers with more than RUR 10m in cash they were trying to take on board undeclared, Ural Customs Administration’s press service reports. A female traveler going to Tel Aviv had $13,000, €2,000, and slightly over RUR 20,000 in her luggage. A passenger flying from Yekaterinburg to Hudzhand had a little more than RUR 1m on him in cash. A passenger on Yekaterinburg-Dushanbe flight was trying to take $10,000 and RUR 27,000 on board. All of the offenders chose the green route and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 20, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region-based farms and self-employed farmers produced 4.7m eggs in January-July 2018, which was 20.3% less than one year previously, Sverdlovskstat reports. On the other hand, dairy produce output rose by 3.8% (up to 24,400,000 kg), that of meat and poultry (live-weight basis) rose by 8.3% (up to 1,300,000 kg). On the whole, all of Sverdlovsk Region-based agribusinesses’ milk output increased by 3% (up to 434,500,000 kg), that of meat and poultry by 6.1% (up to 142,900,000 kg), and that of eggs dropped by 0.8% (down to 863.6m).