UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2019. RUB 67m worth of black-market alcohol produce got confiscated in Sverdlovsk Region in 2019; twelve backstreet shops making adulterated strong drinks got closed down as well. Sergey Ustyuzhanin from the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry’s Sverdlovsk Region’s Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Enforcement said at a recent press conference in Yekaterinburg that 650 liters of alcohol produce got confiscated, 112 criminal lawsuits were instituted, 1,500+ offenses got detected, and RUB 20m+ worth of administrative fines got imposed on the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2019. Managing Director at EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Alexei Kushnarev and Danieli Group signed a contract for the reconstruction of the former’s Rail & Beam Department. The Group is expected to supply €80m worth of tech equipment to NTMK, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘Retooling the department will mean we’ll be able to expand our mill produce range and start making new types of rolled metal goods. The department will start manufacturing U-shaped sheet piles (up to 600 mm wide), H-beams

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2019. The telecom company MegaFon is now selling ‘interesting’ phone numbers that have a combination ‘2020’ in them, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘Our Sverdlovsk Region-based customers are buying ‘nice-looking’ phone numbers (‘platinum’, ‘gold’, ‘silver’, and ‘bronze’ ones) at the speed of two a day. In December, MegaFon added the special ‘2020’ phone numbers to the pool specially for the digit-combination lovers,’ the company says. ‘Sverdlovsk Region is the Ural’s No.2 in terms of how many ‘interesting’ phone numbers get purchased. Yugra is the No.1

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 18, 2019. An organized crime group helping undocumented immigrants get fake authorization papers was uncovered and brought down in the Southern Urals, press service at the Russian Federal Security Service’s Border Control Administration’s Chelyabinsk Region division reports. ‘The primary suspects and alleged accomplices within this organized crime group got detained in Chelyabinsk Region by Counter Terrorism & Counter Extremism Center and Chelyabinsk Region division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry’s Central Investigation Department, with support from the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2019. Ural Airlines recently introduced a new on-board meal option for those on a special kind of diet: Kosher Menu, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘This meal option comprises some appetizers (home-style chicken sausages and hummus) and a main course (chicken). All the dishes are kosher-certified, which means both the ingredients and the cooking methods fully comply with what the canons of Judaism require,’ the press service says. You can pre-order your kosher meal if your flight departs from Zhukovsky Airport as well as on all Tel Aviv-Zhukovsky