UrBC, Moscow, July 26, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order On Cancelling Certain Special Economic Measures Against the Turkish Republic; the order is now available at pravo.gov.ru. Under the terms of the order, the agreement on the Russian and Turkish nationals’ travel to and from the two countries which Russian Federation Government and the Turkish Republic Government signed on May 12, 2010 partially comes into effect again. The agreement was halted on January 1, 2016 in terms of how freely Turkish nationals with regular travel passports could come to Russia;

UrBC, Moscow, July 26, 2019. Businesses are not happy with the commission fees Russia’s Central Bank intends to charge for its express payment system transactions (0.2% to 0.7% of the transaction amount). This means large retail companies might refuse to join the Central Bank’s network, Vedomosti refers to the Retail Traders Association's (ACORT) and the Online Traders Association's (AKIT) letter to Head of Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina as stating. Retail traders expect the express payment system (which allows retail customers to pay by scanning a QR code with their smartphone

UrBC, Moscow, July 26, 2019. MegaFon comes up with ever more cyber threat protection solutions and has recently launched its Database Protection Service. According to the telecom company’s press service, MegaFon’s cyber-security solutions are aimed at a variety of customers, smartphone owners as well as large companies with extensive digital communication networks. The new database protection solution is based on Garda BD. The software prevents security leakage and ensures data protection by automatically blocking any attempt to access the database spreadsheets without proper authorization.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2019. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch intends to invest RUB 2m in a new children’s playground in Fabrika, near Sukhoi Log, the company’s press service reports. The 625-square-meter playground will get set up next to 2A and 4A Energetikov St in Fabrika’s most densely populated district with plenty of apartment buildings, the press service says. According to FORES representatives, the new playground will have sports/play appliances, a merry-go-round, pull-up bars, dodecahedron playground climbers, park benches, a sandbox, and two rocking units. There will be a strip

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) automobile department completed its stage of the company’s charity relay race by supporting Kolosok Kindergarten in Novopanshino; the adjustage department is now taking over, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. It took NTMK workers six months to complete their project at the kindergarten in Novopanshino: they removed the fire-prone flooring on the ground floor of the building, installed six new exit doors, and put up three new gazebos and two sandboxes. The