UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) updated the list of purchase categories that can result in 10% cashback paid into the UBRD Maximum card account. According to the bank’s press service, on May 1-31, 2019 Maximum card holders will get 10% in cashback for using their card to pay for the following: gardening and summerhouse appliances; rail tickets (including e-tickets) and intercity bus/coach tickets; gasoline at filling stations; goods and services purchased at fitness studios. Every other purchase type also gives you the usual 1%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. Two mining teams from Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine have produced 1,000,000,000 kg of coal each since the beginning of the year. According to the company’s PR Department, Alexei Ivanov’s team and Rustam Muminov’s team (Sections 17 and 1) were both congratulated on their success by the company management. ‘These stoping teams are among Raspadskaya Coal Company’s best. Thanks to their compliance with the safety rules and great team spirit, the miners hit their target production figures every single month,’ the PR Department says. Alexei Ivanov’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s 5th charity race (aka Day Pyat!) will take place next to Sovremennik Concert Hall in Nizhniy Tagil on May 26. The race is part of a large-scale sports event, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Department reports. All the race participants have already signed up on the company website www.evraz-sport.ru. This year, the race will gather together 1,200 runners (including 400 children); the children will run a 1-kilometer race, the adults a 5-kilometer one. For the first time this year, fifty children with disabilities from Nizhniy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region-based wholesale traders sold RUB 386.1 billion worth of goods in the first quarter of 2019, which was 11.7% less than in the first quarter of 2018, Sverdlovskstat reports. According to Sverdlovskstat, 37.3% of the sector’s overall turnover stemmed from small enterprises. In January-March 2019, wholesale traders (excluding small enterprises and companies with under 15 employees) sold 2.6 times more fish and fish products, 2.4 times more bread and baked goods, 2 times more canned fish, 1.9 times more salt and sugar, 1.8 times more pasta and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. Officers from Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Security Service had an adulterated vodka and cognac shop closed down in Izmodenovo, District Beloyarsky, the division’s press service reports. The shop was rented by a Georgia native and contained more than 4,000 kg of alcohol-based liquids in 8,639 glass bottles labeled as vodka and cognac (Neft, Gold, Arbatskaya, Derbent, Königsberg, and Bacardí); there were also some 10,000+ empty bottles found on the site, ready to get filled, alongside boxfuls of wine corks and measuring appliances. The