UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 25, 2020. The Russian Red Cross and Yekaterinburg Council extended their Guangzhou humanitarian aid event (collecting money and supplies for the people of Guangzhou) to February 28, 2020. Now Guangzhou authorities appealed to Yekaterinburg residents for help earlier, so the event took off as early as February 11. For bank details and address of the Russian Red Cross’s Sverdlovsk Region division, where money and care packages may get directed, please visit Yekaterinburg Council’s website.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 25, 2020. domofond.ru did a research comparing average monthly earnings and rental prices of studio apartments in various parts of Russia and in the country on the whole. It turns out the country’s average rental price for a studio apartment comes to RUB 14,970 a month (32% of an average monthly income), which means that, after the rent gets paid, the households have RUB 31,315 per month on average to live on. ‘People living in Magadan Region will have the largest post-rent income: RUB 83,395, with the rental prices at RUB 23,000 (22% of an average monthly

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 25, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and MMK’s Lysva-based plant MMK-LMZ sold 8,300,000,000 kg of metal goods on the Russian market in 2019, up 8% on one year earlier, Head of Marketing at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works Denis Chernenko said at Russia’s Local Metal Trade Conference recently. ‘Hot-rolled metal products made up 48% of MMK and MMK-LMZ sales on the home market last year. The share of rolled section steel sales was 17%; cold-rolled products, zinc-coated rolled metal goods, and goods with polymeric coating made up 11%, 14%, and 5% of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 25, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine completed its investment project meant to make the reinstallation of stoping equipment faster. As a result, miners at Coalface 6-6a carried out their task in a much safer manner and twice as fast, EVRAZ Holding’s PR Department reports. ‘The preparatory jobs and the reinstallation itself were done by Raspadskaya Mine’s Assembly, Disassembly, and Repair Department workers. The investment project took two years to complete. Raspadskaya Coal Company purchased an advanced set of appliances for RUB

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 25, 2020. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe Group) made RUB 9.955bn in net profit last year, which exceeded the figures for the year 2018 by 28.9%, the Group’s press service reports. The company’s sales revenues went up by 7.5% and thus amounted to RUB 192.278bn. Gross profit rose by 22.4% (up to RUB 54.191bn). Adjusted EBITDA increased by 12.8% and came to RUB 31.828bn. ‘ChelPipe Group’s financial performance improved steadily throughout the year 2019, the primary reasons for this being our adopted strategy for entering export markets and our operational