UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing more Yekaterinburg-Tbilisi flights. According to the air carrier’s press service, four flights a week will get operated from Yekaterinburg to Georgia’s capital starting November 4, 2018. The flights will be available every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. Prices start from €54 (RUR 4,041*) for a one-way ticket. The flight is three hours and twenty minutes long. ‘Wintertime Georgia is a great place to go to both for mountain skiers and for those who love long walks along old streets. It makes a lot of sense to start

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 26, 2018. The 25th EuroBLECH 2018 Fair is taking place in Hannover, Germany; Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is contributing to this major event in the sheet metal treatment technology sector. ‘MMK takes part in EuroBLECH every other year, which is how often the fair gets held. The company stand features the plant’s wide product range and tech potential in the sheet metal making sector. MMK is currently No.1 on the respective Russian market,’ says the plant’s Information & PR Department. The highly durable and wear-resistant MAGSTRONG. steels are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2018. The Bank of Russia annulled UralTransBank’s license this week, the former’s website states. ‘This is to announce that the Bank of Russia annuls the banking license of Yekaterinburg-based PAO UralTransBank (Identification Number 812) starting October 25, 2018 (Bank of Russia’s Decree dated October 25, 2018/No. OD 2785),’ the website says. Now UralTransBank closed down more than a third of its retail branches in the last eight months; besides, the bank was on the Central Bank of Russia’s non-compliers list for eighteen months. Valeriy Zavodov, a business

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2018. Sverdlovsk State Academic Philharmonic canceled the closed meeting that was supposed to have covered a discussion on a new concert hall, political activist Dmitri Moskvin announced via his Facebook account. The news of the planned meeting transpired last week; it turned out only the so-called members of the ‘Friends of The Philharmonic League’ could sign up for it; the Philharmonic’s website explained this had to do with the limited number of people their auditorium could fit. ‘We do not wish to engage in the ‘open hearings’ format that we are being

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) won the 5th All-Russian Motivation Awards 2018 Contest in Innovations. The bank presented its General Meeting 2018/LifeUB: The Talk Show Project, the bank’s press service reports. The contest aims to bring into the limelight the best practices used for personnel motivation and to support the development of advanced personnel management technologies. Only the most progressive and out-of-the-ordinary projects on intangible employe incentives that were implemented by different companies competed in