UrBC, Moscow, April 13, 2020. Russia’s Finance Ministry purchased a shareholding in Sberbank for RUB 2.13943571 trillion (RUB 189.44 per share), the ministry’s website states. Now in accordance with Article 1 of Federal Law No. 50-FZ, dated 18 March 2020, ‘On the Acquisition by the Government of the Russian Federation of Ordinary Shares of Public Joint-Stock Company Sberbank of Russia from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and on Invalidating Certain Provisions of Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation’, 11,293,474,000 ordinary shares were purchased from Sberbank (a 50% equity

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 13, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s government debt amounted to RUB 86.1878 billion on April 1, 2020, Sverdlovsk Region’s Finance Ministry reports. Now as of January 1, 2020, the figure was RUB 77,187,791,800. This means the constituency’s debt rose by over RUB 9 billion in the first quarter of 2020.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 13, 2020. SKB-Bank’s card holders will now be able to take out cash and put money into their accounts using Alfa-Bank’s ATMs - and this on the same terms as in the case of SKB-Bank’s own machines. According to the bank’s press service, this was made possible due to a cooperation agreement the two banks have signed. ‘You can top up your bank account or take some cash out in every part of Russia where our ATMs are available. This should prove particularly handy for the customers located in areas where SKB-Bank’s ATMs are not so easy to find within the next-door range.

UrBC, Moscow, April 13, 2020. The telecom company MegaFon expanded its content delivery network by launching its own solution Multi-CDN; this sped up the start of the video playing and reduced the time lags in TV broadcasts for viewers in remote parts of the country. According to the company’s press service, their online video and the digital television service MegaFon TV traffic rose by 30% in the last few weeks. ‘In addition to its existing content delivery options represented by seventeen data centers, MegaFon is also beginning to use its own caching platform Multi-CDN (total traffic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 13, 2020. NEYVA Bank’s financial performance in the year 2019 was given a clean audit opinion at the end of an independent audit procedure. According to the bank’s press service, the audit was carried out by the independent auditor Yekaterinburg Audit Center in full accordance with the current international standards. The auditor is among Russia’s largest auditing bodies, according to RAEX, and has been on the market since 1992. Chairman of the Board at NEYVA Bank Konstantin Levushkin says they had to engage in large-scale preparatory work to get all the financial

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 13, 2020. Ural Airlines proved the airline with the largest number of flight-hours per day operated on Airbus A320neo aircraft in 2019. According to the company’s press service, Airbus data indicate that the total amount comes to over 14 hours a day. ‘This means the airline operates this family of aircraft more efficiently than any other air carrier in the world,’ the airline representatives say. Now Ural Airlines obtained four planes from the Airbus A320neo family (three A320neo ones and one A321neo one) in the second half of 2019 and yet another А321neo unit in