UrBC, Moscow, December 17, 2018. The Russian Government came up with a list of airports and seaports where a duty free outlet may be operating in the Arrivals area. The list is now available on the Cabinet’s official website. There are seventy-five airports, thirty-eight seaports, and three river ports on the list, including Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg. It is stated that the list comprises all the entry/exit points on the Russian border that have to deal with passengers. ‘The following list of the Russian Federation’s border checkpoints where the sale (to private customers) of goods

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 17, 2018. The solemn awarding ceremony for Yakov Osadchiy fellows took place at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) this week, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. ‘The corporate fellowship was established in 2001, the year the plant’s legendary director Yakov Osadchiy would have turned one hundred, in order to encourage and invite gifted young people to come to ChelPipe Group. This year, the fellowship got awarded to students of Russian Technological University, Ural Federal University, and South Ural State University who excel academically, in sports,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 17, 2018. The local round of the 6th WorldSkills Russia championship took place in Chelyabinsk Region this week. Magnitogorsk schools hosted a number of the championship events, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) press service reports. Vocational schools in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk, and Kopeysk also served as venues for the championship. 372 contestants from twelve different parts of Russia and from Kazakhstan competed in 34 primary, 16 junior, and 5 local categories. Among the contestants were 32 students of Magnitogorsk Polytechnic, Magnitogorsk School

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 17, 2018. Magnitogorsk-based Metallurg Charity Foundation coordinated its annual end-of-year meeting with heads of local children’s establishments, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) press service reports. The meeting got attended by members of the foundation’s board, representatives of the benefactors (Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works being the largest), Deputy Head of Chelyabinsk Region Social Relations Ministry’s Child Welfare Department Tatiana Matveyeva, Chair of the Board at Russian Children’s Foundation’s Chelyabinsk Region division and member of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 17, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine was founded forty-five years ago this year. To celebrate the special date, an exhibition entitled The Faces of Raspadskaya by the author of Russ Press Photo Vassily Prudnikov opened in Mezhdurechensk, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports. The exhibition features sixty unique works that have never been previously published. The photographs were taken for Raspadskaya.45, a book that came out in the legendary enterprise’s anniversary year as well. Following the presentation, several copies of the book were