UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 16, 2020. Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition was originally canceled due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, yet the event will still take place: in a digital format, that is. According to the project coordinators, Innoprom’s first online session will take place on April 15. According to Sverdlovsk Region Government’s officials, Innoprom will be held on the platform INNOPROM ONLINE this year; every Wednesday, sessions on a range of different topics will be available online. Sverdlovsk Region’s Investment & Development Minister Viktoria Kazakova

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 16, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region paid RUB 95.3 billion to the Russian Federation’s consolidated budget in the first quarter of 2020, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 13.3%. According to the local division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service’s press service, payments to the federal budget amounted to RUB 39.3 billion in the first quarter of the year (up 27.6%, or RUB 8.5 billion, on a year earlier). The better part of the federal budget revenues stems from inside-Russia VAT payments (65.2%), corporate income tax (25.8%), and VAT payments on goods imported

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 16, 2020. NEYVA Bank supports small and medium enterprises in the time of volatile economy and COVID-19 pandemic: the bank is willing to offer a number of its business customers special terms on settlement and cash services. According to the bank’s press service, customers with Discounter, Light, Bazovy, Universalny, and Maximalny monthly subscriptions will have to pay no commission in May, as all the advance payments for April will get transferred to the following month. The offer applies to businesses with no commercial transactions in their settlement accounts

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 16, 2020. ChelPipe Group successfully went through with re-engineering its HR management and payroll preparation processes; as a result, the Group’s pipe manufacturing division’s five production sites all work under a single HR management and payroll preparation information system, which made all the processes much more efficient and reduced the amount of paperwork needed. According to the company’s press service, the Group chose one of Russia’s leading consultants MOLGA Consulting as its partner for the project involving 15,000 employees. After the company came up

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 16, 2020. Miners at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine have extracted 2,000,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year so far. According to the company’s press service, three mining teams and six developing ones contributed to this achievement. Alexei Ivanov’s team from Section 17, with its 690,000,000 kg of coal, proved especially successful. Vadim Sychev’s team from Section 10 extracted 650,000,000 kg of coal and Andrei Kireyev’s team from Section 1 extracted 550,000,000 kg of coal. Drifters working on new coalfaces also produced