UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 19, 2020. The number of bankruptcy claims placed with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court rose by 80% last year against one year previously, President Justice Svetlana Tsvetkova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. ‘The most noticeable increase in the number of claims was in bankruptcy ones: these went up by 80%. For one, 3,473 personal bankruptcy claims got placed with the court in 2019 [almost twice as many as in 2018 - Ed.], along with 2,041 insolvency claims relating to legal entities [1.5 times as many as in 2018 - Ed.], and 222

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 19, 2020. All of OOO FORES’s employees will get informed of their need to choose between paper-based and electronic work record files by June 30, 2020, the company’s press service reports. ‘Those at their workplaces will get the notifications in person, while those who will be on sick or parental leave at the time will be able to pick the notification at the HR Department in person or to get it mailed to them. In any case, FORES’s HR departments will be contacting each and every worker, so everyone will get notified,’ the company says. ‘The employees who choose

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 19, 2020. Some 200 residents of Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, took part in a presentation on the urban improvement program designed at ChelPipe Group’s initiative, the company’s press service reports. The program relies on a comprehensive research carried out by Culture and Urban Development Center (Head: Sergey Kapkov) and the locals’ proposals. ‘ChelPipe Group is Sverdlovsk Region’s first company to propose a unique urban environment transformation program. The company has already directed RUB 70m to the project and is willing to offer extra funding for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 19, 2020. A new automatic process control system has been launched at EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise’s Sintering Unit 1, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘The system is based on an advanced, high-efficiency controller which collects and analyzes data on forty tech parameters of the sintering process and on thirty nodal points and appliances within the sintering unit. All the data get displayed on the control panel screens online, which means the unit operator can use the information for immediate

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 19, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) keeps offering guided tours of the company’s production site to all kinds of visitors. So far, over 10,000 people have come to look at the site, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘MMK was open to visitors before as well: colleagues and partners - customers, equipment and raw materials suppliers, and other metallurgical companies’ representatives - came to one of Russia’s leading metallurgical enterprises all the time. Young residents of Magnitogorsk could also see the legend of Russian metallurgical