UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2017. Ural Airlines are currently offering special prices on their Novosibirsk-Moscow-Novosibirsk flights: starting from March 18, 2017, prices start from 4,235 RUR (one way in either direction). According to the air carrier’s press service, the ticket covers a hot meal, cabin luggage (up to 5 kg) and one piece of luggage under 10 kg. You can also get an additional discount by joining the airline’s Wings Club loyalty program. To do this, you buy a 500-ruble welcome bonus and only pay 3,735 RUR for your flight ticket. This Novosibirsk-Moscow-Novosibirsk flight is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is launching a number of new mortgage offers on March 1, the bank’s press service reports. New mortgages are now available in Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Tagil, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, and Perm. These new offers were designed to meet all of the customers’ property-buying needs: you can apply for a mortgage to purchase either a new or an existing home as well as use the scheme where the state-offered maternity subsidies can be used as part of your loan repayment. Additionally, there are debt refinancing options

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2017. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s (TMK) Sinara Pipe Plant (SinTZ) held its annual meeting of the Group’s Tech & Quality Services at the plant, the company press service reports. The meeting was chaired by TMK Deputy Director-General and Senior Engineer Alexander Klachkov. Over sixty managers and experts from the company’s Russian, European, and American divisions as well as from TMK Trading House attended. ‘The meeting participants looked in the pipe market situation last year and tried to come up with the forecasts for the year 2017; the also talked about

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 1, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s museum facility is currently hosting 21st Century Art, an exhibition featuring presents given to the company by its Russian and international partners, the company press service reports. These are all gifts presented to Ural Vagon Zavod after the year 2000. There are some sixty exhibits altogether, including arts and crafts works, paintings, sculptures, and autographed books. ‘The exhibition is an opportunity to see paintings executed in all kinds of styles and techniques, with every piece presenting a unique

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 1, 2017. Lastochka Premium ES2GP, an electric train made by Ural Locomotives (Sinara Group and Siemens’s joint venture), was issued a certificate of compliance with the Customs Union’s technical requirements, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. ‘The wintertime tests were carried out in December 2016, with test results considered at an Intergovernmental Committee meeting; the train was then issued a certificate of compliance in February 2017. Premium proved even more efficient during the tests than the existing regulations required. For one, its dynamic and strength

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 1, 2017. ChTPZ Group and Severstal held their 21st coordination meeting in Chelyabinsk, the Group’s press service reports. The meeting was attended by representatives of the two companies’ production, technological, and commercial departments. The parties looked into their joints performance results, their supply policy, and possible ways of future cooperation. ‘This year, ChTPZ Group and Severstal intend to keep sharing their experience of working within large-scale international projects, their intellectual property management practices, and their customer service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 1, 2017. Rosatom Corporation is going to pay nearly 1.5 times more taxes to Sverdlovsk Region’s budget funds this year. A cooperation agreement to this effect was signed by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev and Rosatom’s Deputy Director-General for Economic Analysis and Planning Sergey Novikov at the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi. According to the corporation’s preliminary forecasts, 4.3bn RUR worth of additional payments will be directed to Sverdlovsk Region’s budget this year. This means some 900m RUR can be allocated for the development of local

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 1, 2017. Over 900m RUR were paid to Sverdlovsk Region’s budget as the shadow market of migrant labor grew legally visible last year. This is 1.2 times more than one year previously, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s website states. According to the local division of Russia’s Federal Migration Service, 911.5m RUR were directed to their budget funds in 2016 from income tax paid by foreign workers employed here on a patent. 766m RUR were meant for Sverdlovsk Region’s budget and 145.5m RUR were meant for city budgets. Sverdlovsk Region Finance Ministry says the overall