UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2019. DeloBank App (SKB-Bank’s new banking service for businesses) topped MarksWebb’s recent rating, the bank’s press service reports. MarksWebb’s analysts looked into mobile apps of seventeen Russian banks that are iOS- and Android-friendly and rated them on the basis of the functions available, efficiency, and user-friendliness (the target users being heads of small enterprises and sole traders),’ the press services says. DeloBank’s mobile app came first both in the rating of iOS- and Android-friendly apps for sole traders and in the rating of iOS- and

UrBC, Moscow, July 31, 2019. Russia’s poverty rate increased from 13.9% to 14.3% in the first quarter of 2019, Rosstat’s recent report indicates. According to Rosstat, 20.9m Russians had incomes below the living wage (RUB 10,753 as set by the Labor Ministry) in early 2019. 14.3% of Russians (20.9m people) had incomes below the living wage in the first quarter of 2019. The calculations were based on the Labor Ministry’s living wage standards for the first quarter of the year (RUB 10,753) and the income assessment techniques adjusted in March 2019. Now in the first quarter of 2018, if an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region residents factual disposable incomes (adjusted against the consumer price index) dropped by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2019 compared with one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. People’s nominal incomes amounted to RUB 434.5bn all in all in the first quarter of the year (RUB 33,556 a month per capita). One year previously, the figures were RUB 415.3bn and RUB 32,005, respectively. At the same time, the monthly living wage came to RUB 10,922 per capita in Sverdlovsk Region in the first quarter of 2019 (RUB 11,678 for working-age locals,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2019. Rosatom’s/Rosenergoatom’s Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Region, invested RUB 274,807,000 in environmental protection programs last year, the plant’s annual environmental report for 2018 indicates. The presentation of the report took place in Reporters’ Club in Yekaterinburg, with a number of environmental experts, members of the Public Chamber, and reporters working for the area’s leading media all present. Talks were given by experts from the plant’s Environmental Protection Department, Nuclear Safety & Reliability

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2019. The number of credit card applications the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development received in the last week of July increased that received in the last week of June by 70%, the bank’s press service reports. Thinking outside the box and making the most of life are the principles we live by as a business. While other banks are only starting to extend their CC grace periods to three months, we are revolutionizing the market by offering everyone a credit card and eight months without having to worry about interest payments. This is a total paradigm