UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 1, 2019. ChelPipe Group presented its program for cooperating with the military at Army 2019 Forum in Moscow’s Patriot Park Exhibition Center, the Group’s press service reports. The representatives of the industrial sector and members of the Russian Armed Forces spoke about the new ways business and the military could work together, about the legal issues relating to continuous education programs, and the ideal draftees of the future at a round table discussion on the army draft and job training. ChelPipe Group’s Deputy Director-General Mikhail Ivanov gave a talk on

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 1, 2019. First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch shipped 195,000,000 kg of export/import items under its trans-border freight forwarding contracts via Yuzhno–Uralskaya (South Ural) Railway in January-May 2019; this was 15% more than one year earlier. The company’s international freight turnover came to 390,000,000 ton-kilometers, the company’s press service reports. ‘We do more than handle shipments, we actually work out the best route for our customers’ consignments, track the intermediary stages of the shipments, and cover all of the paperwork. Our key customer is

UrBC, Pervouralsk, July 1, 2019. ChelPipe Group, Sverdlovsk Region Government, and Pervouralsk Council signed a cooperation agreement to design and implement a master plan for a series of urban improvements in Pervouralsk, the company’s press service reports. The agreement was signed by ChelPipe Group’s shareholder Andrei Komarov, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Mayor of Pervouralsk Igor Kabets, and Sergey Kapkov, head of Moscow State University School of Economics’ Culture and Urban Development Center. The public-private partnership program will cover ChelPipe Group, which

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 1, 2019. 19,000 kg of fake designer clothing (the imitations of Gucci, Calvin Klein, Adidas, Reebok, Nike, and Puma) got detained at Chelyabinsk Region Customs. The clothes were meant to have been sold in Perm, Ural Customs Administration reports. ‘A car loaded with goods was traveling from Leninskoye, Chuysk Region, Kyrgyzstan, and got halted at A 310 near Troitsk Customs Point. More than 8,000 fake designer items were found inside, including sportswear, footwear, socks, and T-shirts bearing famous logos. The damage done to the trademark owners has been preliminarily

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 1, 2019. Starting July 1, a new universal upper limit on the amount of debt one can have on loans with the repayment period of under 1 year comes into effect in Russia. Fines, loan interest, and other payments relating to this loan type must not exceed the principal debt amount itself by more than two times, the Bank of Russia’s Ural division’s PR Department reports. If someone takes out a loan for RUB 15,000, for example, they will have to pay back no more than RUB 45,000 (RUB 15,000 would be the principal debt amount and RUB 30,000 would come from fines and