UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2019. Public hearings on the local Duma's budget proposal for 2020 and preliminary budget plan for 2021-2022 took place in Yekaterinburg last month. 488 local residents voted in approval of the proposed budget; 7 people voted against the proposal; 3 people abstained from voting. As was reported earlier, Yekaterinburg Duma Budget & Economic Policy Committee approved of the Budget 2020 Project in the first reading last week. Yekaterinburg's budget revenues are expected to come to RUB 47.4bn next year; budget expenses are estimated at RUB 49.2bn.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 2, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the national import substitution Priority 2019 Award, MMK's Information & PR Department reports. 'The company won the Priority Metallurgy Award for launching its new Sintering Plant 5 in the course of a solemn ceremony attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 19, 2019,' the company says. Sintering Plant 5 relies on the best available techniques and can produce up to 5,500,000,000 kg of sintered ore with enhanced iron content a year, which will provide MMK's blast furance

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2019. NEYVA Bank made it easier for its Visa cardholders to earn interest on their account balance as well as on their card transactions: according to the bank's press service, they now account for every transaction on the very day the purchase was made. 'Our more proactive card users are aware of the fact that sometimes the purchases you pay for by card can only get accounted for in your account balance on a later day and not on the day of purchase. This has to do with the way VISA operates and with the system's own regulations. This means

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 2, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group Trade Union has allocated more than RUB 14m to co-fund the employees' children's stays at summer camps and health resorts since the start of the year, MMK's Information & PR Department reports. In fact, the overall amount of funds directed to co-paying for the summer camp stays has gone up by RUB 3m over the last two years. 'The program the trade union adopted early in the year involves the workers whose children are going to summer camps during the school break. The trade union

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 2, 2019. An experts' board and members of professional community acknowledged ChelPipe Group's efforts to conserve Chelyabinsk Region's environment by selecting Chair of the Board of Directors at ChelPipe Group Alexander Fedorov Man of The Year 2019 in Environmental Initiative. The 9th awarding ceremony took place at World Trade Center in Chelyabinsk. 'The award figurine was given to Alexander Fedorov by Head of Chelyabinsk Region division of the Federal Service for the Supervision of Natural Resources Vitaliy Kuryatnikov and owner of Uvildy