UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 20, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Director for Job Safety, Industrial Safety & the Environment Grigory Shchurov spoke about MMK’s important environmental projects at a recent conference dedicated to environmental rehabilitation of the Ural River, the plant’s press service reports. Shchurov presented a report on Environmental Problems of Enterprises Affecting the Ural River/Environmental Projects & MMK’s Water Utilization System’s Problems and Potential. He said a large-scale water conservation project got completed in November; MMK

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2018. The telecommunications giant MegaFon installed more than a hundred new base 4G stations in the Urals this year, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘Every single hour, our network handles the amount of traffic that roughly equals to sending 6 million photographs. Taking care of comfortable data transfer is our priority. The best LTE coverage means our customers can solve any problems online both at home and while traveling around Russia,’ says MegaFon Ural’s Tech Director Anton Scherbakov. MegaFon’s engineers improved 4G connection quality in more

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and Mir Payment System are coordinating a special prize-drawing offer, the bank’s press service reports. UBRD Mir cardholders might win thousands of money prizes and even the grand prize of RUB 3 million (intended for an apartment) between December 15, 2018 and March 15, 2019. To join the prize-drawing offer, you need to sign up for the lottery on the bank’s website and then simply use your Mir card to make your regular payments (this applies to any transaction amounts and to online and offline

UrBC, Moscow, December 20, 2018. The bill On Changes in Articles 46, 54 of the Federal Communications Act was adopted by the State Duma in the third reading this week. Under the new changes, mobile carriers will now charge their customers the same amount of money regardless of which part of Russia the user is currently in. According to the lawmakers behind the bill, the national roaming, that is, charging mobile connection users more or less depending on which federal constituency (their ‘home’ one or otherwise) they are in is ‘essentially a very outdated practice that prevents communication

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2018. Jet Infosystems completed its multi-aspect information security audit of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s payment systems. Based on the results of this audit, a set of short-term steps and a long-term strategy might get taken and adopted, respectively, in order to reduce fraud risks and improve the bank’s information security processes, the UBRD’s press service reports. The infosecurity audit touched upon ten of the bank’s payment systems, their system and application software configurations, and the firewall access control rules for