UrBC, Moscow, October 2, 2018. Russian air carriers incurred RUR 40.2bn in losses in the first half of the year, Kommersant refers to the Russian Air Transport Operators Association’s data as indicating. This is, in fact, more than twice the amount of losses incurred one year earlier. Most of these were related to domestic flights (RUR 37.1bn), with the remaining RUR 2.9bn pertaining to international flights. The Association states the losses have to do with rising jet fuel prices. The airlines had to spend 40.1% more on fuel in the first six months of 2018, that is, RUR 167bn all in all.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 2, 2018. Dmitri Koltykov from EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) won the Sverdlovsk Region round of Glory to The Man of Labor Contest as the Best Welder among all the competing companies/employees in the mining and metallurgical sector, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports. Workers from fifteen Sverdlovsk Region-based mining and metallurgical enterprises took part in the challenge. They had to do a theory-based quiz and a practical task of overhead welding of metal sheets. The judges’ panel (welding experts supplied by the

UrBC, Moscow, October 2, 2018. The average booking window as registered among Russian tourists looking for hotel rooms abroad has been shrinking dramatically since August 2018. The window is currently ten to fifteen days (25% too 30%) shorter than before, tutu.ru refers to its recent research findings as indicating. In September, Russians typically booked their international trips twenty-nine days in advance on average (-30% on a year earlier). The trips themselves grew one day shorter, on average. ‘It turns out tourists are afraid to make their plans beforehand and book early. They tended to

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 2, 2018. President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov came to Magnitogorsk upon Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky’s invitation today. The presidential delegation started their tour of the city from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) production site, the company’s press service reports. The visitors took a look at Blast Furnace 1 and went to see the unique heavy-plate Mill 500 and the top-of-the-range cold-roll mill unit at MMK’s Sheet-Rolling Department 1. President Minnikhanov spoke very highly of the plant’s production facilities. ‘Magnitogorsk

UrBC, Moscow, October 2, 2018. Some of the amendments in the package popularly known as the ‘Yarovaya law’ came into effect on October 1. This means Internet service providers are now obliged to store all of their users’ online traffic produced in the last thirty days. The storage units’ capacity is expected to rise by 15% a year for the next five years to come. The ‘Yarovaya law’ was signed by the President on July 7, 2016. The initiative imposed much stricter data user tracking and storing regulations and imposed a number of new obligations on the ISPs and online services. The part of the