UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 17, 2020. Investigative authorities took criminal action, with charges of fraud, on the case involving the transfer of a land allotment for Bazhovskaya Underground Station, Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities’ press service reports. The public prosecution authorities’ investigation revealed some instances of malpractice relating to the way the land allotment was handled. According to the authorities, ‘one of the heads of an organization’ entered inaccurate information about the land allotment in the state register in 2015-2017. Instead of ‘a 280-slot

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 17, 2020. DeloBank reduced the acquiring commission it charges online stores down to 1%. Additionally, for the first time the bank’s customers can also sign up for the online acquiring services on their own. According to the bank’s press service, DeloBank came up with a simple payment widget that you can install on your online shop website without an IT professional’s assistance. You don’t need to know anything about coding, as all you have to do is copy a ready code the bank provides and locate it in the respective section of your online shop. The bank’s

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 17, 2020. Given the dire shortage of medical-grade face masks during the current coronavirus pandemic, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)-supported social-sector organizations started sewing reusable masks for MMK Group’s employees. According to the Group’s press service, S. Ordzhonikidze Metallurgical Workers’ Culture Palace is one such organization. Workers from the wardrobe/sewing department put off making new costumery for the performers for the time being and turned to sewing the vital masks. Dress Designer at S. Ordzhonikidze Metallurgical Workers’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 17, 2020. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) purchased special-purpose equipment for sanitizing vehicles, workplaces, production departments, shower rooms, and bus stops. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports spraying apparatuses and air recirculation units are now being used to disinfect the two companies’ work spaces. ‘A spraying apparatus is 16 liters large and is used for disinfecting buildings, flights of stairs on production sites, rooms where the day’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 17, 2020. Ural Airlines operated a special-purpose flight on Thursday to take 152 migrant workers home to Uzbekistan. According to the airline’s press service, the flight was not part of the evacuation flight program and was operated with active support from Human-Rights Ombudsperson in Sverdlovsk Region Tatyana Merzlyakova, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Federal Migration Service, Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Service of Court Officers, the Consul-General of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Yekaterinburg, and Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny