UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 20, 2019. Nizhniy Tagil Children’s Art Center is working on the filming of The Magical Straw Shoes, a Russian folk tale, with support from EVRAZ Holding. The center’s filming project won a grant within the framework of EVRAZ Holding’s social investment program. The company allocated RUB 450,000 for the project. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center, the filming appliances (studio lights, camera lenses, props and special effect fixtures, stage make up, and hard drives to store the footage) have already been purchased. ‘The movie itself will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 20, 2019. Ural Airlines will be operating an extra Samara-Baku-Samara flights starting June 10; the existing Friday flights will get complemented with a Monday one, the air carrier’s press service reports. Prices start from RUB 7,200 (Samara-Baku) and from RUB 9,800 (Baku-Samara). ‘The capital of Azerbaijan has something to offer to every member of your family. Travelers coming from Samara will be able to look at Baku’s Flame Towers, visit the Heydar Aliyev Center, go on a tour of Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, or try and solve the Mystery of the Maiden Tower. You can also

UrBC, Moscow, May 20, 2019. Both private borrowers and financing organizations might find themselves trapped through over-intensive consumer lending currently unfolding on the Russian market, Bank of Russia’s First Deputy Head Dmitri Tulin said at the State Duma Finance Market Committee’s recent meeting. According to Interfax, Tulin believes that while an increase in consumer lending is a natural process that shouldn't get artificially restrained, the speed of the said process is starting to look alarming. There’s a possibility that this could leave both the customers and the banks

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 20, 2019. Yekaterinburg’s Shopping Index Watcom (an online update on how many people come to shopping malls and supermarket chains every week) rose by 1.3% during the first May break and by 7% during the second one, Watcom Group’s research findings indicate. ‘Week 19 of last year was a nice and warm one, so quite a few people spent their days in the countryside. This year, the rainy weather might have contributed to the increased shopping mall traffic. In Moscow, for example, our Shopping Index only rose by 1% during the first May break and dropped by 3.6% during the

UrBC, Moscow, May 20, 2019. Russia’s Communications Ministry turned down the Russian Association of Internet Trade Companies’ initiative to charge a 20% customs duty on every purchase Russians make at international online stores, Izvestia reports. According to the Russian Government’s analytical center’s calculations, a 20% customs duty would result in growing prices and in RUB 121 billion a year in extra tax burden for the Russian shoppers. The proposed initiative will most likely result in an increased end user burden, given the expected rise in the price of an imported item; even if the