UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. Ural Electrochemical Combine and CentroTech (both of which are parts of Rosatom’s TVEL in Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region) set up Ural Industrial Cluster, a non-profit association, the combine’s press service reports. Ural Electrochemical Combine’s Deputy Director-General for Non-Nuclear Business Development Oleg Yelistratov was elected the association’s President. Ural Electrochemical Combine’s Director-General Alexander Belousov, Deputy DG Valeriy Denisov, CentroTech’s Director-General Ilya Kavelashvili, and CentroTech’s Deputy DG Alexander Stikhin became

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. Ural Airlines’ flight attendants won gold as Best Team at the 4th International SKYSERVICE 2019 Forum. According to the air carrier’s press service, the national and international airlines’ representatives spent two days on ISPY training workshop, both learning the theory and practicing. The judges’ panel assessed Ural Airlines’ team’s professional skills very highly and awarded gold medals to the team. Ural Airlines’ flight attendant Anastasia Solovieva also became Miss Online in the Sky Lady 2019 beauty pageant after receiving the maximum online vote.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s corporate loan book (small and medium enterprises) rose by 45% in the course of 2018, the UBRD’s press service refers to Expert RA as stating. The bank came 13th in the all-Russian bank rating on January 1, 2019 (the corporate loan book being the main criterion). The UBRD issued 39.3% more loans in 2018 than in the year 2017 and came 21st in the all-Russian rating in this respect; this was also nine rating positions higher than one year earlier. The bank issues loans to retail traders most often, through

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. Ural Airlines now offer Air Express+Plane Ticket Pack to passengers flying to Moscow; Air Express is the train service from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport and Sheremetyevo Airport to the city center. According to the air carrier’s press service, you can book your Air Express ticket when booking your flight to Moscow (one way/round trip). Passengers can select Standard, Preliminary, There & Back, Double, or Group ticket type. The new service’s main advantage is that you can process both ticket purchases in a single order and pay by credit card at once,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Rail & Beam Department got launched seventy years ago this month, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. 73,000,000,000 kg of goods have been made at the department since the day of the launch. To celebrate the occasion, the company’s best department workers and former, long-service employees got awarded and congratulated on the special date. ‘The construction of the department began during the Great Patriotic War; this was designed to be a very sophisticated production facility

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant’s (EVRAZ ZSMK) Converter Shop 2 got launched forty-five years ago today; to celebrate the occasion, a special steel-melting session involving Igor Korzhov’s team and a number of old-service employees who took part in the shop’s very first melting operation took place at the plant this month, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports. There are currently two converter units (320,000 kg) operating at the shop. In 2017, one of the units got replaced with a newer version, and the other one

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2019. The number of existing homes currently on offer in Yekaterinburg has been going up by 120 to 130 apartments a week for the last two months. The overall number rose by 7.3% in the last four weeks and came to 8,330 homes, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. The number of homes on the outskirts of the city that are now for sale also went up by 6.2%, or 690 apartments. The number of rooms in communal apartments that are now advertised increased by 1.9%, or 1,470 rooms, in the last four weeks as well. It currently takes about slightly under four months to make a

UrBC, Moscow, April 29, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree regarding the criteria for evaluating the Russian governors’ and the local executive bodies’ performance. The paper is now available online at pravo.gov.ru. There’s a list of fifteen assessment criteria: — the level of trust the locals have in the government, — how many high-performing jobs there are in the non-budget sector, — the number of small and medium enterprises in the area (including sole traders and the self-employed), — labor productivity levels in the non-primary sectors of economy, — the scale of real

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2019. Bribe-related damage amounted to RUB 12 billion in Ural Federal District last year, Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Nikolay Zukanov said at the Anti-Bribery & Corruption Council’s meeting on Thursday. Zukanov said close to RUB 6.5 billion had been paid back after police investigations and a number of criminal trials. The official also stressed that special attention should be paid to hiring better quality candidates for the civil service jobs and that anti-bribery measures should grow more

UrBC, Moscow, April 29, 2019. The Central Bank of Russia’s Board of Directors confirmed that the key rate would stay at 7.75% p.a. - for the fifth month in a row. ‘Annual inflation passed the local peak in March and started to subside in April. Consumer prices current growth rates track somewhat below the Bank of Russia forecast. In April, inflation expectations of households rose slightly after a tangible drop in March. Business price expectations continued to decline but remain at an elevated level. Short-term proinflationary risks have abated. The Bank of Russia’s decisions to raise the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers its business customers up to 10% in cashback if the company card gets used to get their vehicles ready for a new season, the bank’s press service reports. The bank is paying up to 10% in cashback on all purchases related to new tires, tire-changing service, and car wash if you pay with the UBRD company card. There’s also 1% cashback payment on the spare parts, the new car paint, and the mechanic’s bill. ‘April and May are the time to have the tires changed on both your personal and your

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents owe the state RUB 1.7 million in unpaid motor vehicle tax for 2018, Head of the Federal Tax Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division’s Debt Settlement Department Artem Balyura said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. Balyura said the locals also owed RUB 1.1 billion in property tax and nearly RUB 700 million in land tax.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. Ural Airlines introduce a new Yekaterinburg-Magadan-Yekaterinburg flight (via Yakutsk) starting June 3. According to the air carrier’s press service, flight U6 1373 Yekaterinburg-Yakutsk-Magadan will get operated every Monday; flight U6 1374 Magadan-Yakutsk-Yekaterinburg will get operated every Tuesday. Prices start from RUB 17,000 (Yekaterinburg-Magadan), RUB 14,700 (Yekaterinburg-Yakutsk), and RUB 7,000 (Yakutsk-Magadan). Subsidized tickets (RUB 7,500, one way) for Yekaterinburg-Magadan and Magadan-Yekaterinburg flights are also available for Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) coordinated large-scale civil defense and emergency drills at its sites this month. The drills involved the gas rescue service, doctors from NikoMed medical unit, firefighters from Section 4 of the Federal Fire Service, the private security company Interlock NTMK, and members of Nizhniy Tagil Council. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center, the drills focused on rescue operations after a chlorine explosion and an oil spill, informing the management in case of an emergency, practicing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. ChelPipe Group joined in the all-Russian No Turnstile Week this month; the initiative was meant to support job counseling programs for the young. More than 2,000 people went on guided tours of ChelPipe Group’s enterprises in Chelyabinsk, Pervouralsk, and Almetyevsk as a result. According to the Group’s press service, high school and college students, teachers, and parents could all take a look at their up-to-date pipe-rolling and pipe-drawing facilities, welding departments, metal treatment departments, assembly sites, and hi tech industrial robots; they

UrBC, Moscow, April 25, 2019. The number of telecom facilities run by Russia’s Big4 ISPs rose by 3% since the start of the year. There are currently 719,282 base stations in Russia that are in charge of reliable Internet and mobile connection for the local users, Roskomnadzor’s press service reports. According to Roskomnadzor’s radio frequency service, MegaFon runs the country’s largest network at the moment. The telecom company owns 232,055 base stations at the moment (33% of all the stations active in Russia). This is, in fact, 2% more than one year earlier. MTS owns 180,068 base stations,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2019. Tyumen Region Customs identified 17,000 pirated toys in Kurgan Region: according to his papers, a national of Kazakhstan was handling a shipment of children’s toys made in China for a customer in Yekaterinburg. The toys had been meant to get sold in Moscow later on, Ural Customs’ press service reports. The shipment comprised 17,000 children’s toys and phones with Talking Tom, Tobot, L.O.L., and Masha and the Bear logos on them. ‘When enquired about the product authenticity, the trademark owners confirmed the logos had been put on the toys illegally. The

UrBC, Moscow, April 25, 2019. Russia’s Central Bank says the financial pyramid schemes currently tend to migrate to the Urals and Siberia, Izvestia refers to Director of the bank’s Department for Countering Misconduct Valeriy Lyakh as stating. The schemes get tested for viability first and get transferred to larger parts of the country later, as people there tend to be less aware of fraudulent practices, Lyakh explains. 61 pyramid schemes got uncovered in Russia in the first quarter of the year all in all; 31 one of these were limited liability companies, 10 were online projects (including 3

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, April 25, 2019. 63 forged bills got identified within Chelyabinsk Region’s banking system in the first quarter of 2019, which was 2.7 times less than one year previously. According to the Bank of Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region division, they found 51 5,000-ruble bills and 10 1,000-ruble ones that had been forged. The number of the former thus dropped by 65% (2.9 times) compared with one year earlier, while the number of the latter dropped by 5 bills. ‘One reason the number of forged bills went down in Chelyabinsk Region is that the Bank of Russia had the banks’ tellers

UrBC, Moscow, April 25, 2019. Nissan Manufacturing RUS is calling 771 Nissan Terrano crossovers off the Russian market due to possible brake issues, Rosstandart reports. ‘The automobiles are subject to recall due to possibly faulty installation of the brake booster diaphragm. Improper installation might result in a vacuum leak when the car is in motion, which, in its turn, brings about some noises from the booster and might make the braking process less efficient,’ Rosstandart says. Being recalled are the automobiles sold between July 2017 and January 2018; the brake components will get