UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 17, 2018. MMK Group sold 3,052,000,000 kg of ready goods in the third quarter of 2018, which exceeded the figures for the previous quarter by 7.2%, the company’s website states. Among other things, the Group sold 1,351,000,000 kg of high value-added goods in QIII’18 (-2.1% against QII’18); HVA goods amounted to 44.3% of the company’s overall product range on offer. The Group’s member enterprise MMK-Ugol produced 808,000,000 kg of coal concentrate in the third quarter of the year (up 8.3% on the previous quarter). Between January and September 2018, MMK-Ugol

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2018. Ural Airlines will be operating Osh-Kazan-Osh flights starting October 28, 2018 and Osh-Krasnodar-Osh flights starting October 30, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Russia and Kyrgyzstan are long-term political and economic partners, so convenient air travel is crucial to people in both countries,’ the press service says. Osh-Kazan flights will be operated every Sunday, Kazan-Osh ones every Monday. Prices start from RUR 9,900 and RUR 9,600, respectively. Krasnodar-Osh-Krasnodar flights will be operated on Wednesdays/Tuesdays; prices start

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 17, 2018. The Russian Government is to decide on a contractor for Chelyabinsk Airport reconstruction, Southern Urals Government’s Press Service & Information Department refers to Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky as stating. ‘Chelyabinsk will have to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS summits in 2020. It is important to make sure the airport infrastructure meets all the international standards and summit requirements. Glavekspertiza recently approved of the documentation relating to the first stage of the reconstruction process, so

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 17, 2018. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky coordinated a meeting with local town mayors, who reported on how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s provisions on the development of urban transit schemes by local authorities got complied with, Southern Urals Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. The comprehensive urban transit scheme is the groundwork strategic plan that describes and systematizes the following transport infrastructure components: the number of bus/tram stops; the number of zebra crossings and underground

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s industrial production index (IPI) dropped by 7.5% in September 2018 compared with one month earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. The IPI went down by 8.5% in the processing industry sector, including a 28.1% decrease in the drinks industry, a 34.1% drop in the textile industry, and a 22.4% drop in the pharmaceuticals production sector. The IPI also went down by 11.9% in the sector for production and distribution of electric power. Compared with September 2017, however, Sverdlovsk Region’s IPI rose by 6.3%.