UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. National Unarmed Self-Defense Day was celebrated in District Akademicheskiy in Yekaterinburg last week; the interregional championship for male and female contestants was held for the third time. The competition took place on November 23 and gathered together more than 150 sports players in the 8-12 age group [and a number of pre-schoolers - Ed.]. School 19 served as the primary venue for the event. The championship was coordinated by Sverdlovsk Region Unarmed Self-Defense Federation, the housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye, Akademicheskiy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. A permanent exhibition on the Russian art in the 17th to the early 20th centuries reopened in Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts after a recent reconstruction. OOO FORES and the newly established non-profit The Shmotyev Family Foundation were among the benefactors behind the project. 20 out of 154 works that are now featured within the Russian Art Collection used to be part of the museum’s reserve stock. These are mostly canvases created at the turn of the 20th century, FORES’s press service reports. Special-purpose exhibition equipment was purchased for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company improved its Production & Industrial Safety Management Center’s performance potential, the company’s PR Department reports. ‘The idea behind creating the center was to boost performance efficiency through providing the company’s management and employees with up-to-date, full information on the tech processes in progress at our member enterprises. The center united all the earlier solutions that collect, process, and transfer data from all of our enterprises into a single structure,’ the company says. A few

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 27, 2019. PRO Format, a forum for managers and workers in the mining and metallurgical industry, was coordinated in Magnitogorsk with support from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), the company’s Information & PR Department reports. The event was dedicated to the pressing issues in and development prospects of the National Qualification System for the mining and metallurgical sector. ‘The forum was coordinated by the Mining & Metallurgical Industry Professional Qualifications Council, MMK, and Personal Corporate Cadre Training Center.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. NEYVA Bank is getting ready for Black Friday with its special offers for businesses. According to the bank’s press service, the offer will hold on November 18-December 31, 2019. ‘If you sign up for the bank’s Basic, Universal, or Maximum six- or twelve-month packages before the end of the year, you get an extra month of banking services free of charge. If you want to start using the package in December, you need to sign up via Bank-Direct by November 31. We believe in fair loyalty schemes, so the special offer holds for both existing and new customers