UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 16, 2018. President of KORTROS Group Veniamin Golubitsky won the prestigious national real estate prize RREF Awards in Reputation & Trust, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The category applies to nominees seen as the most progressive and successful developer/real estate market leaders whose personal contribution to their business development and to the overall market’s growth truly stand out. Veniamin Golubitsky has been running KORTROS Group (known as Renova-StroyGroup before 2013) since 2005; the company deals in development projects that offer

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 16, 2018. Metallurg Charity Foundation, for which Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is the primary sponsor and benefactor, turned thirty this month, MMK’s press service reports. ‘The foundation got set up in 1988, when the drastic economic changes and their consequences hit the country’s most socially vulnerable strata (retirees and people with disabilities) the hardest. The government was unable to take care of most of its citizens, and MMK management started to look into alternative ways to offer its former employees a social safety net,’ the press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 16, 2018. Customers based in the Urals are turning to cashless payments increasingly more often when it comes to the entertainment sector: every one in fifteen purchases paid for by MegaFon Card pertains to theater/movie/concert tickets, the company’s press service reports. ‘According to our analysts’ data, 71% of customers who bought the tickets last month are men. Some of them are true record-setters: one Sverdlovsk Region-based customer bought tickets to 57 different events in the course of one month. This is nearly three times as many as the number of events

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 16, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering their customers reduced-price tickets on Palma de Mallorca flights to be operated during the New Year break, the air carrier’s press service reports. The special-offer flights will be operated on December 29, 2018; and January 2, 5, 9, and 12, 2019. Prices start from RUR 13,100/€170 for a round trip ticket. The tickets are already available for purchase. ‘Palma de Mallorca is a great place to go to in any season. Around New Year, the island turns into one big, spectacular Christmas market. There are festive parades, carnivals,

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 16, 2018. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky took a tour of the facilities in Chelyabinsk that are now being reconstructed and improved as part of the federal-funded Comfortable Urban Improvement Program and the Governor’s Actual Accomplishements Program, Southern Urals Government’s press department reports. The Governor spoke very highly of the reconstruction projects and pointed out that infrastructure development in the local towns and villages was the government’s top priority. For one, Governor Dubrovsky went to Aloye Pole Park that is being