UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2020. The share of e-policies issued for third-party only vehicle insurance plans in Sverdlovsk Region comes to 58.8%, head of the Russian Automobile Insurers’ Union in Ural Federal District Vyacheslav Tarasov said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg on January 29. ‘We work with several types of third-party only vehicle insurance policies: there are printed policies and digital ones. In Sverdlovsk Region, the share of e-policies comes to 58.8%,’ Tarasov said. According to Tarasov, the country’s average price of the insurance policy in question hasn’t

UrBC, Moscow, January 30, 2020. The telecom company MegaFon launched its new Digital Lawyer Package: thanks to a neuronet and the optical character recognition technology, human employees will be spared the often-performed (and unexciting) issues, and the Russian companies’ personnel’s productive office time will thus increase by up to 70%. MegaFon’s press service says the new service is mostly aimed at lawyers and accountants wishing to spend less time doing routine tasks. ‘The package was designed in cooperation with our tech partner Nlogic. The package comprises three products to enhance

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2020. The first production batch of MOX fuel got loaded into Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant’s BN 800 Reactor (Power Generating Unit 4). The plant is part of Rosatom Corporation’s electric power division, Rosatom/TVEL’s Communications Department reports. The facility resumed operating as usual after its very first overhaul. The batch of MOX fuel loaded into BN 800 Reactor consists of 18 fuel assemblies. These were made from depleted uranium and plutonium at Rosatom’s Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Unlike the nuclear

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2020. Following a virus outbreak in the People’s Republic of China and both China’s and Rostourism’s bans on air travel for Chinese and Russian tourists, Ural Airlines had to cancel a number of flights until the end of the winter navigation period. According to the air carrier’s press service, the cancellations will affect the flights that are popular with Chinese tourists typically traveling in large groups: U6 707/708 (Yekaterinburg-Munich-Yekaterinburg) U6 709/710 (Yekaterinburg-Paris-Yekaterinburg) U6 727/728 (Yekaterinburg-Rome-Yekaterinburg) U6 747/748

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2020. Young athletes from Olympic Reserve Boxing School supported by OOO FORES’s Asbest branch won seven medals in the local championship in Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk Region, the company’s press service says. The competition was held in memory of local war and violent conflict veterans and took place in Bogdanovich on January 24-25. 180+ young boxers from Sverdlovsk Region and Tyumen Region competed in the championship. The school in Asbest sent thirteen contestants in the 10-12 age group. ‘Asbest natives Ilya Popov, Andrei Sokolov, and Maxim Naydanov won gold.