UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 13, 2019. Ural Airlines are currently offering their customers a 50% discount on Moscow flights; the promo code is available on the company website. The offer holds for flights operated from Yekaterinburg to Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport and Sheremetyevo Airport and back. According to the air carrier’s press service, you need to activate your MOSCOW promo code when booking your flight on the company website www.uralairlines.com in order to get your discount. ‘The offer holds on May 8-15, 2019 for flights operated between May 8 and June 30, 2019. The discount does not

UrBC, Moscow, May 13, 2019. The Central Bank of Russia incurred RUB 434.679 billion in losses last year (compared with RUB 435.3 billion one year earlier), the bank’s annual report indicates. The CBR’s assets, however, increased by RUB 8.6 billion and amounted to RUB 39.4 trillion altogether. According to the annual report, banks currently operating in Russia made RUB 1.3 trillion in net profit last year (compared with RUB 0.8 trillion in 2017). The banking sector’s performance kept getting affected by a number of banks undergoing financial recovery procedures in 2018. Without these banks’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 13, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company restored the war memorial in Osinniki in time for Victory Day (May 9), the holding’s PR Department reports. ‘The memorial features the names of 240 miners from Kapitalnaya Mine (now known as Osinnikovskaya Mine) who were killed in Great Patriotic War. The memorial was put up in Osinniki’s Stroygorodok area as early as 1985, in celebration of the 40th Victory Day. Raspadskaya Coal Company financed the reconstruction in March 2011, when 24 memorial plaques with the names of the war victims got installed. This year, the

UrBC, Moscow, May 13, 2019. Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) determined that 21.6% of dairy samples they took in 2018 got adulterated, and every one in five products on the store shelf failed to have the ingredients the manufacture claimed it did, the service’s press service reports. It is reported that some 5,500,000,000 kg of milk, 3,000,000,000 kg of dairy products, and 400,000,000 kg of ice cream get produced in Russia every year. Dairy products are invariably among the top ten export items as well. ‘Ready-to-eat animal produce

UrBC, Moscow, May 13, 2019. Russia imported $65.709bn worth of goods from the far abroad in January-April 2019, which was 0.8% less than one year previously, the Federal Customs Service’s report states. According to the service, $18.5279bn worth of goods got imported into the country from the far abroad in April 2019 alone, which exceeded the figures for March 2019 by 3.4%. The import of chemicals rose by as much as 9.1% and amounted to $3.755bn, that of machine-building produce rose by 2.4% and amounted to $9.357bn, that of food items and related raw stuffs rose by 1.5% and amounted to