UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 21, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) selected the winners of the company’s Director-General’s Prize in Safety, Environment, and Healthcare. The awarding ceremony took place at the plant’s S.Ordzhonikidze Culture Palace on January 17, 2019; this was part of the monthly meeting on industrial injuries, fire safety, and industrial safety at MMK and MMK Group’s member enterprises. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the awards were given out by MMK Director-General Pavel Shilyayev, Job Safety, Industrial Safety & the Environment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) set up yet another SME-oriented branch in Moscow in late December. The new branch can be found in Zubarevsky Center at 15 Zubarev Lane (Bldg 1), which is a five-minute walk from Alekseyevskaya Underground Station. This is the fifteenth branch the bank opened in 2018 and the fiftieth SME-oriented one, the URBD’s press service reports. ‘The strategy of setting up a network of offices aimed at businesses proved quite fruitful. We can see our business customers are mostly interested in settlement

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 21, 2019. Members of the rescue teams who helped find and evacuate the victims of an explosion at an apartment building on December 31, 2018 got awarded in Magnitogorsk, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department reports. Thank-you letters from Head of Russia’s Department of Emergencies’ Chelyabinsk Region division were presented to 111 employees of MMK and MMK Group’s other member enterprises; all of them helped to deal with the emergency. These are people working at MMK Group’s member enterprises’ Drop-Hammer Department, Gas Rescue

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2019. The overall amount of MegaFon Ural’s business customers’ international traffic rose by 10% in January 2019 compared with one year earlier, the company’s press service reports. Since the start of the year, local business people have visited 125 different countries, including such popular exotic locations as Tanzania, Jamaica, Oman, Kenia, Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Honduras (the top seven destinations for MegaFon’s subscriber this year so far). Thailand was the country where MegaFon registered the greatest amount of Internet traffic (roughly the

UrBC, Moscow, January 21, 2019. Rustam Korelin, a worker from Sukhoi Log, Sverdlovsk Region, got detained in Moscow’s Red Square on January 18, 2019 for a one-person protest march, Novaya Gazeta reports. ‘I am in hazardous employment as a furnace boxman at a Sukhoi Log plant. I only make RUB 25,000 a month. Muscovites, this isn’t fair!’ Korelin’s banner read. According to the newspaper, Rustam Korelin and other members of a workers’ group at Fores Plant want a wage increase, an independent trade union, earlier retirement options for those working in hazardous conditions, and compensation for