UrBC, Moscow, May 7, 2019. The telecom company MegaFon and KARO movie theater chain are cooperating on a special offer this May: if you buy a movie ticket at karofilm.ru through May 29, 2019, you get a promo code to get a free subscription for MegaFon TV’s KARO package, MegaFon’s press service reports. ‘When you buy your tickets to see Avengers: Endgame, you also get a thirty-day subscription to the TV package free of charge. Tickets to other movies will get you a seven-day subscription. Additionally, every subscriber to the package gets a 25% discount on any movie at KARO movie theaters (the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 7, 2019. The demand for acquiring services among the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s business customers is currently sky-rocketing: the number of terminal owners rose by 4.4 times in the first quarter of the year compared with one year earlier, while the transaction turnover increased by 3.5 times, the bank reports. These are the department stores, teaching/training centers, car part sellers, and travel agents which have been signing up for the service most actively lately. In geographical terms, the service is most popular with the UBRD’s business

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, May 7, 2019. After Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works’ (MMK) Industrial Park, Chelyabinsk Region Investment Development Agency, and Metallurgic Deoxidizers Plant signed a cooperation agreement six months previously, a new deoxidizers plant got built and launched in the park, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The plant is now operating in MMK Industrial Park in Magnitogorsk. Metallurgic Deoxidizers Plant invested RUB 70 million in the project, creating thirty new jobs. ‘The produce is absolutely unique, as it gets made with the plant’s own know-hows and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 7, 2019. 9,549 mortgage loans got issued in Sverdlovsk Region in January-March 2019 (total amount: RUB 19.159 billion), the Bank of Russia reports. Compared with the first quarter of 2018, this was 2.1% less than one year previously in ruble terms and 7.8% less in terms of unit sales. 3,494 mortgages got issued in Sverdlovsk Region in March 2019 (total amount: RUB 7.093 billion). This was slightly higher than in the previous month, when 3,481 mortgage loans (total amount: RUB 6.873 billion) got issued by local banks.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 7, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region came No.13 in the rating of Russia’s top thirty constituencies with the largest credit card limits. In January-March 2018, the credit card limit came to RUB 52,965 on average; a year later, the limit extended to RUB 54,051 (+2.1%). According to the National Credit History Bureau, the country’s average was RUB 55,600 in the first quarter of 2019 (up 11.6% on the first quarter of 2018, when the limit only came to RUB 48,000). As for other Russian constituencies, Moscow had the largest credit card limit in the first quarter of the year (RUB