UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2019. About 90% of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s business customers get their business cards insured as soon as the card gets issued, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The existing transaction security mechanisms are naturally fully applicable to our business cards, so these are highly unlikely to get hacked: it would take the resources and infrastructure comparable with those that banks’ entire IT departments have to actually do that. Besides, the bank keeps working non-stop to improve and enhance its IT security. The human factor,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2019. ChelPipe Group starts its enrollment campaign for the Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program in Chelyabinsk Region and Sverdlovsk Region on June 1. According to the Group’s press service, eligible to apply are 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students from anywhere in Russia; there are no exams to sit, as the enrollment is based on the students’ GPA. Pervouralsk Metallurgical School (Sverdlovsk Region) enrolls students on the following programs: Operation & Maintenance of Electrical Equipment, Assembly and O&M of Industrial Equipment,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2019. MegaFon recently launched Video.Analytics, a new service that helps you detect, identify, and track certain scenarios and objects, the telecom company’s press service reports. ‘The service unites object video analysis and object recognition within one interface and provides a convenient reporting system; you can also use it to search for a particular item within a large archive of video data. Users can opt for various settings as to where and for how long to store the data, what video analytics modules should get used, and what extra options to get,’ the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, May 31, 2019. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) Board of Directors coordinated a meeting on May 28, the Group’s press service reports. The BOD members voted in absentia to approve of the company’s annual report and accounting report for the year 2018 and to suggest that the shareholders distribute the company’s net profit for 2018 and a portion of net profit for the previous years (RUB 4.7 billion all in all) towards share dividends (RUB 15.38 per share). ‘The BOD members also agreed on the list of candidates to get elected onto the BOD during the upcoming AGM. They

UrBC, Moscow, May 31, 2019. Russia extended its capital amnesty proviso through March 1, 2020. President Vladimir Putin already signed the amendments to Federal Law No. 140-FZ (‘On Voluntary Declaration by Individuals of Property and Bank Accounts (Deposits) and on Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation’). The amendments concern Article 5 of the law, which now states the bracket for the third deceleration stage as June 1, 2019-February 29, 2020. The law comes into effect the moment its gets published. Under the current capital amnesty terms, money that left Russia can get