UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents got paid RUB 40,900 a month on average in January-December 2019 (up 6.7% on one year earlier), Sverdlovskstat reports. In December 2019, their average monthly earnings amounted to RUB 50,909. Now with all the inflation adjustments in place, the factual pay rose by 2.7% in January-December 2019 against January-December 2018.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 26, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is going to present its produce at the construction exhibition UzBuild 2020 that opens in Tashkent today, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘MMK takes part in this international event on a regular basis; UzBuild Exhibition has been around since 1998. Uzbekistan is a very special market for the company, responsible for nearly 30% of all our sales to customers in the CIS member states and 82% of our sales to customers in Central Asia. In 2019, MMK supplied some 430,000,000 kg of metal goods to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. NEYVA Bank has put its HQ at 3A Chapayev St (total area: 5,000 m2) up for sale; the asking price has been set at RUB 413 million. The bank’s press service informs UrBC the final decision to sell the building has been made by the bank’s management after the asset turned out to be loss-bearing in 2019, mostly because of ‘the Central Bank’s dismissing the annual estimate of the building’s value (carried out by an external contractor) and demanding that the building get re-evaluated based on the CBR’s own criteria.’ ‘Under the current accounting standards,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch coordinated an air-rifle shooting competition in Asbest on February 18-21; over a hundred FORES employees took part in the tournament, the company’s press service reports. ‘The company’s Transportation Department provided a venue for the shooting range. The competition took place during lunch breaks; contestants had to shoot from a ten-meter distance, with every participant getting to make three trial shots and five competition ones (the best results got classified as competition ones automatically),’ the company says. Among

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. SKB-Bank Group’s DeloBank now offers a new service for the self-employed that allows private individuals to process payments from customers. According to the bank’s press service, the new service, known as Billing, is targeted at private individuals who are self-employed and sell their products or services via social networks or online marketplaces. Prior to the launch of the service, only sole traders and legal entities were able to bill their customers. ‘Starting February 2020, every customer with a private account at DeloBank/SKB-Bank who is