UrBC, Moscow, October 31, 2018. Russia’s Finance Ministry won’t have the ‘luxury tax’ adjusted after all, Minister Anton Siluanov said on Channel 1 Pozner Show this week. ‘They often say we should tax the wealthier people more. As things are, we have done that already: owners now pay higher property tax on luxury apartments and condos, automobiles, yachts, and so on,’ Siluanov said. According to Siluanov, a progressive tax system ‘has its plus and minus sides.’ ‘We understand the well-off to be clever enough to find a way around the progressive tax; for one thing, these people may choose to

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 31, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is now among the winners of the All-Russian Competitive Purchases Leader Contest as the Best Business Process Upgrade Project, MMK’s PR Department reports. ‘188 Russian companies active in every sector of the national economy took part in the contest. The winners got selected by a community board of seventy independent experts. This year, MMK presented its project on Supply Chain Transformation With External Experts’ Help. This is the largest-scale upgrades project implemented by the company in the purchasing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s team was one of the top three finalists at WorldSkills Hi Tech Championship in terms of the number of prize medals: the team won two gold ones, five silver ones, and three bronze ones. Team players from EVRAZ Holdings West Siberian Metallurgical Plant (ZSMK) won prizes in eight categories out of twelve, the Holding’s PR Department reports. ‘The junior team also did very well. Contestants from Novokuznetsk-based Meridian Children’s Tech Arts Center Grigory Chekushin and Makar Mukhin both won silver; seventh-grade students of Nizhniy Tagil

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s team won ten medals in the 5th All-Russian WorldSkills Hi Tech Blue-Collar Job Championship, the Group’s press service reports. Senior Expert Artem Rogozinnikov and electric gas welder Maxim Koryakin won gold in both the national and international rounds of the competition in Industrial Robotics and Reverse Engineering, respectively. Silver in Industrial Mechanics & Assembly went to Nikolay Permin. ChelPipe Group’s employees also won five bronze medals in Welding Technologies, Industrial Automation, and Composite Technologies. ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2018. Rosatom Corporation presented its new industrial 3D printer at a recent exhibition in Moscow; the printer is expected to get manufactured in Rosatom’s plant in Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Representatives of Rosatom Corporation, Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry, and the Urals’ leading industrial enterprises all contributed to the presentation at the Additive Technologies Scientific & Production Consortium session. First Deputy Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexei Orlov commented on the importance of