UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) coordinated a financial literacy/money-earning workshop for Yekaterinburg children as part of the bank’s Children Believe in Miracles Charity Program, the bank’s press service reports. One goal of the program is to teach children how money can be made and spent wisely. Shortly before New Year, the workshop’s young participants made souvenir magnets with the program logo; the bank suggested that UBRD employees buy these. There were so many people willing to support the initiative and get the

UrBC, Moscow, January 24, 2019. Following a meeting of Russia’s Natural Resources Ministry representatives with Director of Denezhkin Kamen National Park in Moscow, Head of the Department of State Policy and Regulation in the Area of Development of Protected Areas Alexei Titovsky contacted Rosprirodnadzor’s administration, asking to look closely into the situation in Sverdlovsk Region’s north, Zhivoy Shemur’s press service reports. The meeting was dedicated to environmental problems in the north of Sverdlovsk Region and to Ural Mining & Metallurgical Company’s asset Svyatogor polluting

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2019. MegaFon Ural now offers its business customers a range of online freight-tracking options, including temperature control and notifications in case a package gets dropped or opened. MegaFon is the first telecommunication service provider to offer local companies its Freight Control package, the company’s press service reports. The freight-tracking options are a good solution for international freight forwarding as well as for domestic shipments, including multimodal forwarding schemes. A special-purpose, autonomous GPS/GLONASS/LBS tracker inside the cargo

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2019. The average amount of a mortgage loan getting issued in Sverdlovsk Region rose by 8.2% in the last quarter of 2018 compared with one year earlier, and thus reached RUB 2,101,402, the National Credit History Bureau’s report states. In Russia on the whole, the average mortgage amount rose by 17.5% in the course of one year and thus reached RUB 2.34 million. Among the forty Russian constituencies with the largest mortgage markets, Moscow, with its average mortgage amount at RUB 4.61 million, was No.1, followed by Moscow Region (RUB 3.46 million), Saint

UrBC, Moscow, January 24, 2019. The Bank of Russia purchased RUB 24.23 billion worth of foreign currency for the Finance Ministry on Monday, January 21, the bank’s reports indicate. The Finance Ministry intends to purchase RUB 265.8bn worth of foreign currency on January 15-February 6, 2019, with the average daily amount at RUB 15.6bn. The foreign currency is getting purchased with the purpose of extracting the additional oil and gas revenues and adding more money to the National Welfare Fund.