UrBC, Moscow, July 2, 2019. MegaFon announced the launch of its updated MegaFon CDN service this week; the product has been developed in partnership with the international provider G-Core Labs’ content delivery network, the telecom company’s press service reports. The partnership is expected to speed up the website performance and the delivery of bulky media files to end users in Russia and all over the world considerably. Thanks to collaborating with G-Core Labs, MegaFon’s customers will be able to stay active online anywhere in the world with MegaFon CDN, while G-Core Labs will expand its

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 2, 2019. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant’s (ChelPipe) annual general meeting took place on June 28, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. The meeting got attended by the company shareholders (and/or their representatives) who own 97.2715% of the company’s shares together. Based on the results of the vote, the plant’s net profit for the year 2018 will get directed to dividend payments (RUB 4.702bn all in all/RUB 15.38 per ordinary share). ‘The AGM attendees also elected the new Board of Directors: Andrei Komarov, Alexander Fedorov, Boris Kovalenkov, Oleg Seleznev,

UrBC, Moscow, July 2, 2019. The Russian Government issued a provision that makes it obligatory for grocery stores to display regular dairy foods and surrogate ones containing dairy fat substitutes on separate shelves; the document is now available on the Cabinet’s website. Dairy products and foods containing milk or milk-based ingredients must be placed on supermarket/store shelves in a way that makes it visually possible to tell them from other food types; besides, a statement should be given that these are foods without any dairy fat substitutes,’ the provision indicates. The paper came

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 2, 2019. 8.5m credit/debit cards got issued in Sverdlovsk Region in the first quarter of the year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 3%. This included 1.6m MIR cards within the national payment system (up 70% on a year earlier), the Bank of Russia’s Ural branch reports. Sverdlovsk Region-based cardholders performed RUB 553.5bn worth of transactions in the first three months of the year (15% more than in the first three months of 2018). The number of transactions rose by 25% and reached 311.4m. The share of card transactions involving paying for goods

UrBC, Moscow, July 2, 2019. The price of communal housing services rose by 2.4% in Russia on July 1, 2019. This is the second time the increase has been introduced this year so far. On January 1, prices rose by 1.7% throughout the country on average, after the VAT got raised from 18% to 20%. Now Sverdlovsk Region’s Regional Energy Commission also confirmed an increase in the price of natural gas supply service earlier; Yekaterinburg’s water and sewer company announced its prices were going up as well.