UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2019. NEYVA Bank came up with the next year’s cashback calendar based on the customers’ most popular spending categories. According to the bank’s press service, there’s an increased cashback bonus on a certain product/service category for every month of 2020. ‘We kept analyzing the most popular product/service categories our customers spent on using the bank’s cards throughout 2019, and produced the most advantageous cashback calendar for 2020 there is: January is the entertainment month, so there’s an increased cashback bonus on money spent at water parks,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2019. The per capita loan debt to annual pay ratio came to 61.3% in Sverdlovsk Region in 2019; one Sverdlovsk Region resident owes banks RUB 255,200 on average at the moment, RIA Novosti says. Given these figures, Sverdlovsk Region came No. 66 in the rating of Russian federal constituencies in terms of household debt, following Chelyabinsk Region (51.7%, No. 29) and Omsk Region (54.6%, No. 41). The per capita debt figures changed by 36.8% in the course of one year. Now the country’s average household debt rose from 44.9% to 47.1% in 2019. Russians living in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2019. OOO FORES acted as one of the sponsors for the World Dance Council (WDC) World Championship in ten dance categories for professional dancers. The competition took place at Yekaterinburg EXPO’s new concert hall in Yekaterinburg for the first time on December 21, 2019, the company’s press service says. Additionally, the first tournament of the Euro Asian Dance Council (EADC) was held at the same time. Around a hundred pairs of contestants from nearly twenty different countries situated on three continents competed in the event. The preliminary rounds took

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 24, 2019. G.I. Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (MSTU), which is the primary source of engineering workers for Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), and the National University of Science and Technology MISiS are going to design a metallurgical training program together, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘In 2019, Russia’s Higher Education & Science Ministry suggested coordinating a contest involving Russian colleges outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg to design advanced higher education programs together with the Russian

UrBC, Moscow, December 24, 2019. MegaFon and the world’s largest travel platform Booking.com signed an agreement to introduce free roaming services in 130 different countries for their customers. Users with a green SIM card can make calls, send texts, and use the Internet connection free of charge when traveling, the telecom company’s press service reports. MegaFon’s customers can access the service through a special landing page at booking.com. To use the service, all you have to do is book and pay for your hotel stay providing the phone number that you will be using during your trip. ‘Every