UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2020. EVRAZ West-Siberian Metal Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) made over 950,000 kg of rolled section steel items for the construction of Kuzbass Ice Palace in Kemerovo, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘The goods got shipped by EVRAZ Metall Inprom’s Kemerovo subsidiary. The palace will get built entirely from EVRAZ-supplied metal. Additionally, H-beams made at EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant will be used for the framework,’ the company says. ‘The company has contributed to the construction of sports facilities many times

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2020. NEYVA Bank’s experts believe the coronavirus outbreak that has already affected China’s stock market so badly could have a negative impact on the global economy as well; the U.S. dollar and the Swiss franc could prove the solution to investors’ problems. According to Head of Stock Market Department at NEYVA Bank Dmitri Glebov, China’s economic growth might slow down to an all-time low. ‘It’s hard to assess the actual economic consequences at the moment, but the virus is bound to do some damage to the global economy in any case. Under the circumstances,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 7, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) supplied more than 9,700,000,000 kg of rolled metal goods to customers on the home market (including the CIS member states) in 2019. This is the largest figure in the company’s entire post-Soviet history, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The last time a home market sales record was set was in 2014, when the figure was 9,588,000,000 kg. ‘MMK has been raising its Russian and CIS sales for the last twenty-five years now. In 1996-1999, up to two-thirds of sales were to foreign customers, but the trend

UrBC, Moscow, February 7, 2020. Ural Airlines won the Skyway Service Award in International Chartered Flights through an independent passenger ballot, the air carrier’s press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony Skyway Service Award 2019 for both national and international airlines took place in Moscow on February 5, 2020. Passengers voted to rank the airlines’ service and special loyalty programs. ‘The awarding ceremony was part of the NAIS 2020 Exhibition. The exhibition has been held for the seventh time this year and serves as a reputable professional platform for new projects,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2020. The third round of Sverdlovsk Region Junior Futsal Championship took place in Kamensk-Uralsky on February 3-4; Sukhoi Log’s Olympic-FORES (athletes born in 2010 and 2011) won thrice and lost once, OOO FORES’s press service reports. ‘On these same days, Olympic-FORES juniors born in 2006-2007 competed in the fourth round of the championship at Leader Sports Center in Berezovsky. They beat Novouralsk’s Children & Youth Sports School 2 (athletes born in 2007) 8:3, made it into a tie (3:3) with Kachkanar’s Olimp, and were defeated by Novouralsk’s