UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 6, 2020. MMK Group’s member enterprises and all the divisions at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) appointed the people in charge of enforcing the Open Door Principle on sites. According to the company’s press service, the novel coronavirus is most frequently transmitted through direct contact, which, along with airborne transmission, presents a serious threat to public health. ‘MMK Group’s Open Door Principle helps prevent the spread of the virus and minimize direct-contact transmission. The principle will get enforced at all the entry checkpoints,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2020. Yekaterinburg was featured in the Russian Construction Ministry’s rating of top ten cities with best-quality urban environments in 2019; the rating is now available on the ministry’s website. Yekaterinburg came No. 6 among fifteen Russian cities with the population of over a million people. The ministry gave the city’s urban environment a score of 188. Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Kazan were the top three cities in the rating. Sverdlovsk Region, in its turn, came 66th in the rating of federal constituencies, scoring 172 points. The condition of 46 local

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2020. A special-purpose HQ under Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev was going to hold a meeting on April 3 in order discuss support of local economy and business during the pandemic, Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky said on air of Echo of Moscow Yekaterinburg. ‘Yesterday, the President provided some new input [during his public address — Ed.] that we now need to work with. The President authorized the constituency governors to deal with their local situations. We are meeting Governor Kuivashev this afternoon to get the final input;

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2020. Shishimskaya Gorka Art Residence goes online; there have also been changes in the program to do with the international travel ban and self-isolation requirements. A London- and Berlin-based female artist’s May residence has been postponed till a later date. Yekaterinburg-based Anastasia Bogomolova will step in instead, Brusnika’s press service informs UrBC. A multi-disciplinary artist and photo book collector, Anastasia Bogomolova does installations, performances, sculpture, and photography. Her art projects are an investigation into the mechanisms of

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 6, 2020. MMK Industrial Park now enforces a set of hygienic and quarantine-related measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. According to the company’s press service, the global coronavirus pandemic is a challenge and strength test for every single business from a smaller company to an industrial giant. The management of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), in its turn, informed the public immediately of the unprecedented emergency steps taken at MMK Group’s member enterprises (including MMK Industrial Park) in order to prevent the spread of the dangerous