UrBC, Moscow, December 7, 2018. The Russian Government is currently working on a poverty relief plan, Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev announced in the course of recent TV interview. In his decree on the Russian Government’s primary tasks for the next six years (dated May 7, 2018), Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the goal was to halve the current poverty rate by 2024. ‘In order to bring the poverty rate down 200%, an extensive action plan needs to be adopted. The plan is now being developed by the fellow ministers,’ Medvedev said. The plan dwells on quite a few points, including

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2018. Zaha Hadid Architects apparently knew that their proposal for a new concert hall for Sverdlovsk Philharmonic in Yekaterinburg would interfere with a lived-in apartment building at 40 Karl Liebknecht St, the company’s Associate Director Christos Passas said during his presentation of the project at 100+ Forum Russia. Passas said they were aware there were still home owners living in the building, but this was an issue that could be better dealt with by their customer. It was the customer who set out the project specifications. The company provided a

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 7, 2018. A group of Lysva Metallurgical Plant’s trade union delegates paid a visit to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. Lysva Metallurgical Plant became a member of MMK Group’s large production chain around a year ago. The new owner brought the long-expected changes that touched upon every aspect of the plant’s operation from production issues to management system. The trade union representatives, who lead the plant’s social life, went to see their MMK counterparts for an experience-sharing session. Visitors

UrBC, Moscow, December 7, 2018. Russia’s fast food restaurant market shrank 1.3%, in money terms, in the third quarter of the year compared with one year earlier. Still, it turns out that the number of times Russians tended to eat at fast food venues increased by 3% in the third quarter compared with the second one. According to Romir Holding, McDonalds, KFC, and Burger King are still the market’s top three. Customers, however, are growing increasingly picky about the range of food items on offer, which is why the fast food market players have to keep launching new deals and promotion offers.

UrBC, Moscow, December 7, 2018. The Russian market sales of new passenger vehicles and LCVs rose by 10.1% in November compared on a year-on-year basis and amounted to 167,494 units, Russia's Association of European Businesses (AEB) reports. All of the ten best-selling car makes are locally produced brands. All in all, 1.62 million automobiles got sold in January-November 2018, the AEB Automotive Manufacturers Committee (AMC) indicates. According to AEB AMC Chair Jörg Schreiber, car sales kept rising steadily throughout November. It was reported earlier that a similar increase in sales is