HomeMaterials for 02.04.2020
02 April 202009:32

Ural Airlines: Moscow-Gorno-Altaysk Flights This Summer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 2, 2020. Ural Airlines will be launching new Moscow-Gorno-Altaysk and Yekaterinburg-Gorno-Altaysk flights this summer, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights from Moscow to Gorno-Altaysk will be available daily starting May 31; flights from Yekaterinburg to Gorno-Altaysk will be operated every Monday and Friday starting June 1. Prices start from RUB 6,014 (one way) and from RUB 12,028 (there and back) for flight U6 1351/1352 (Moscow(Domodedovo)-Gorno-Altaysk) and from RUB 6,775 (one way) and RUB 12,050 (there and back) for flight U6 1353/1354
02 April 202009:31

SKB-Bank Launches Samsung Pay for Visa

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 2, 2020. SKB-Bank enabled Samsung Pay for its Visa card holders; the service is available wherever contactless/magnetic stripe payments work, thanks to Samsung MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission). According to SKB-Bank’s press service, you can make purchases using your smartphone or Samsung mobile devices. Samsung Pay also lets you pay from your smartphone when shopping at online stores and their mobile app versions; you can also use the service to send and receive money. To use the service, you need to register your Visa card with Samsung Pay. The payment itself is
02 April 202009:31

State Duma Adopts Bill on Loan Repayment Break for SMEs

UrBC, Moscow, April 2, 2020. Russia’s State Duma adopted a draft bill on introducing ‘a loan repayment holiday’ for sole traders and small and medium enterprises in the third and final reading this week. This means borrowers can take a break from repaying the principal debt and the interest for a few months, Prime reports. Under the terms of the bill, businesspeople can apply for a loan repayment break with their bank through September 30, 2020. The ‘repayment holiday’ could last up to six months. Private individuals are eligible to apply for the six-month ‘repayment holiday’ as well. In
02 April 202009:30

MMK-METIZ Sets Up COVID-19 Prevention Unit

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 2, 2020. MMK Group’s MMK-METIZ set up a special-purpose unit to help prevent the spread of coronavirus; the unit gets chaired by Director Alexander Mukhin. Ad hoc work teams, coordinated by department heads, have also been set up in every division, and people have been assigned who will collect and present all the relevant data on COVID-19 and enforce the measures to prevent it. ‘All our drivers as well as employees arriving from outside of Magnitogorsk have to undergo medical examination to check if they have any symptoms prior to entering the site. Our workers get
02 April 202009:30

EVRAZ Completes People’s Correspondent Video Project

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 2, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s People’s Correspondent Video Project got nearly 1.5 million views in the last six weeks, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center’s PR Department reports. ‘The project took off in the summer of 2019. EVRAZ employees submitted videos featuring their native towns’ favorite locations, with twelve young people then going to four places in Siberia and the Urals as project reporters and show hosts. They went to five of EVRAZ Holding’s member enterprises: EVRAZ West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant in Novokuznetsk, EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil