UrBC, Moscow, October 12, 2018. The measures the Bank of Russia has been taking to contain inflation (including a recent increase of the key rate) will result in ongoing reduction of interest rates on mortgages, the bank’s head Elvira Nabiullina believes, according to Prime. ‘As for mortgages, the interest rates did go down and reached an all-time low in the middle of summer. And the number of newly issued mortgage loans has been rising fast enough as well. Our analysis findings indicate that this has been happening specifically due to the fact that we keep the inflation in check,’ Nabiullina

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers its insurance plans (My Child and Teledoctor) in every Russian town the bank operates in, that is, in forty-six federal constituencies all in all, the bank’s press service reports. My Child is an insurance plan offered jointly with D2 Strakhovanie that covers the following: disability due to accident and temporary disability/incapacitation due to accident. The child must at least three years old on the day the contract is signed; the plan expires in the year the child turns eighteen.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 12, 2018. A representation of Southern Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry opened in Harbin this month, the CCI’s press service reports. The CCI’s China branch will be in charge of supporting Chelyabinsk Region’s businesspeople’s visits to China organizationally; doing due diligence checks of prospective Chinese partners; coordinating meetings and negotiations; organizing tours of China-based exhibitions; helping Russian companies register as a legal entity in China; and supporting Chinese businesspeople’s visits to Chelyabinsk Region for negotiation purposes.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s migration loss figures went up by 14.6% in January-August 2018 compared with one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. The migration loss balance thus reached 1,185 people in the eight months of the year (compared with 1,358 people one year earlier): 77,134 migrants arrived in the constituency and 78,492 people left. The local depopulation rate also went up 1.7 times. 34,166 people were born in Sverdlovsk Region in January-August 2018 and 39,806 people died.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2018. 6,999,739 people flew with Ural Airlines between January and September 2018, which exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 14%, the air carrier’s press service reports. 3,880,528 passengers flew on domestic flights in these nine months of the year; 1,837,489 people flew internationally; and 1,281,722 people traveled to or from the CIS member states. The airline operated 47,242 flights altogether (up 13% on the year 2017), including 26,480 domestic ones, 11,766 international ones, and 8,996 flights to and from destinations in CIS member states. The