UrBC, Moscow, June 5, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new bill on the ways Russia can counteract in response to the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and other states. The full text is available on the official legal information portal. Under the new legislature, the Russian Government, acting upon the President’s will, can introduce a range of counteractions/counter sanctions as long as these actions do not jeopardize vital commodities whose counterparts cannot be obtained from Russian/non-U.S. manufacturers. The decisions can also be made by the President based upon the Security

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 5, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Healthcare & Education Center in Magnitogorsk hosted Chelyabinsk Region’s Junior Chess Championship 2018, MMK’s press service reports. MMK sponsored the local round of the championship as well. The contestants were all children under nine, grouped into eighteen teams representing Chelyabinsk Region’s various districts and towns. Each team comprised two boys and two girls. First-graders Mikhail Andreyev and Eva Zanina from School 5, Sati Gabbasova from School 53, and Bogdan Antipin from School 13 represented the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 5, 2018. ChelPipe Group presented its new tech solutions at Modern Pipe Production Conference 2018, the company press service reports. Sixty design institutes and R&D centers in the oil and gas industry contributed to the event. The exponents looked into the new kinds of pipe produce on the market and talked about the promising venues for expanding ChelPipe’s product range. ‘ChelPipe Group keeps working to improve its existing technologies as well as to master making new pipe varieties. The Group’s member enterprises can currently manufacture a wide range of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 5, 2018. Ural Airlines got declared Taxpayer of The Year in Yekaterinburg Council’s contest once again, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The contest aims to distinguish the most bona fide taxpayers who contribute to the city’s overall development. Out of the fourteen contestants the judges’ panel selected as finalists, five made it as award winners, with Ural Airlines rated No.1,’ the press service says. In 2017, Ural Airlines paid RUR 3,157,853,000 in taxes all in all. The company also made RUR 472,574,000 worth of personal income tax payments.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 5, 2018. The developer RSG-Akademicheskoyer is coordinating a tender to find the designers for a new quarter in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy, the company press service reports. Under the terms of the contract, the designers are to produce a comprehensive development project for Quarter 11, do all the engineering survey jobs, and come up with project and design documentation for a set of apartment buildings with adjacent/built-in commercial space and underground parking lots (Blocks 11.1.1 and 11.1.2). Opening bid: RUR 48,699,038. Application deadline is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. Starting June 1, 2018, Ural Airlines are taking Saratov Airlines’ passengers on their own flights. The offer holds through June 30 provided there are seats available on board, the air carrier’s press service reports. Saratov Airlines’ passengers with valid tickets can fly with Ural Airlines from Krasnoyarsk to Sochi and back and from Kazan to Simferopol and back. ‘To use the option, Saratov Airlines’ customers with valid tickets need to apply to Ural Airlines’ offices at their airports of departure,’ the press service explains. You can get updates on the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. 49.7% of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s commission-based profit came from small businesses’ fees in the first quarter of the year, the bank’s press service reports. Based on the bank’s statistical data, 72% of commissions get charged for settlement transactions. The increase in the overall amount mainly has to do with the expansion of the bank’s customer base: the number of companies banking with the UBRD rose by 14.4% in the first quarter of 2018 compared with one year previously. The customers were enticed by appealing terms and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering reduced-price tickets for Yekaterinburg-Tbilisi-Yekaterinburg flights to be operated in the early fall. According to the air carrier’s press service, the flights will be operated every Monday and Friday starting from October 10, 2018. Prices start from RUR 3,900 (Yekaterinburg-Tbilisi) and RUR 5,000 (Tbilisi-Yekaterinburg), all fees included. ‘Georgia is great in any season, so you can travel there all the year round. Tbilisi is particularly appealing in the fall, with its nice weather, few tourists, and seasonal fruit. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. There were 6.4m people in the workforce segment in Ural Federal District in the first quarter of the year, Sverdlovskstat reports. ‘Also, 316,000 people were unemployed but on the lookout for a job; based on the World Labor Organization’s methodology, they are to be categorized as jobless. 71,000 people registered with employment centers as jobless by the end of March 2018,’ the agency says. Local employers placed 120,500 job opening ads with Sverdlovsk Region’s employment centers by the end of March 2018.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 4, 2018. A criminal suit involving a Yekaterinburg resident charged with registering 1,500 foreign nationals fictitiously has been placed with District Verkh-Isetsky Court, Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities report. According to the investigative team, the woman allegedly registered foreign nationals as staying/residing in her apartment in Posadskaya St. The accused thus knowingly misrepresented the data on the migrants’ application/registration forms. She is believed to have thus registered 1,349 foreign nationals who did not actually live at her

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2018. The average asking price of an existing home rose by 1.3% on Yekaterinburg housing market compared with the start of the year and by 2.7% compared with twelve months earlier, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s report states. The average asking price currently comes to RUR 68,162 per m2. In terms of location, prices have been going up in nearly all the parts of the city: by 4.7% for centrally located apartments, by 1.3% in Yekaterinburg’s second most expensive locations close to the heart of the city, and by 1.7% and 2.1% in the third and fourth priciest parts of the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, June 1, 2018. An awarding ceremony for agents of business support and development took place at Chelyabinsk Region Legislative Assembly this week. Representatives of the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry were among those to receive the award, which has been given out for the third time this year. ‘The Assembly’s business development award was set up in 2015 to distinguish the most proactive individuals who are both successful businesspeople and energetic contributors to the businesses’ and government’s interactions,’ the CCI’s press service reports. Once a

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 1, 2018. The executive committee of Russia’s Mining & Metallurgical Trade Union’s Central Council announced the results of its FNPR (Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia) Best Authorized Representative for Job Safety 2016-2017 Contest, MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The goal is to improve trade union’s control over job safety and healthy working conditions on production sites, encourage our authorized representatives for job safety to be more proactive in preventing accidents at work and occupational health problems, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) and Gazpromneft launched the Fuel Integrator Project together, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s corporate relations center reports. The Fuel Integrator scheme, proposed by the local sales division of Gazpromneft, means the holding can have its vehicles filled with fuel without any production stoppages as well as cut its fuel spending and be in full control of all the costs involved. To make sure EVRAZ KGOK has its fuel needs fully met, Gazpromneft bough three additional filling units (overall

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2018. West Siberian Heat & Power Station operated by EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) completed its heating season 2017/2018. Everything went in standard mode and all the end users got their heating power and hot water supply in full (including during extremely low temperature periods), EVRAZ’s press service reports. ‘We managed without any emergencies during the season thanks to a large-scale repairs and upgrades campaign and the launch of our renovated Boiler Unit 9. The reconstruction of the boiler boosted our energy

UrBC, Moscow, May 31, 2018. The All-Russian Passengers’ Union placed a complaint with the Federal Antimonopoly Service regarding soaring prices of flights operated during the World Football Championship days, RIA Novosti refers to the union’s Vice Chair Ilya Zotov as writing to Head of the Service Igor Artemyev. The union looked into prices of plane tickets to the game-hosting cities on the day before the game is scheduled to take place and on the day following the game one. They also looked into the price of air travel in July, August, September, and October in order to determine the average

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2018. Fifty foreign nationals got deported from Yekaterinburg on May 21-25, 2018 since they had violated the existing immigration laws, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Service of Court Officers reports. Most of these people come from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Azerbaijan. ‘All of the deported foreign nationals were found guilty of an administrative offense consisting in unlawful entry to and staying within the Russian Federation (Article 18.8 (Part 1.1) of the Administrative Offense Code),’ the division says. 620 foreign nationals have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region-based end users owe their heat and power suppliers RUR 8.5bn in unpaid heating and electric power bills, the constituency’s Minister for Energy & Housing Utilities Nikolai Smirnov said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Smirnov, RUR 6.6bn out of the total amount stem from the debts of end users based in the Mid-Urals. ‘Unfortunately, the debt figures keep rising; they used to go down in the summer months, but this only happened on a little scale last summer. So now that the summer’s here, we can rely on the existing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is taking part in the 25th International Caspian Oil & Gas 2018 Exhibition in Baku; the exhibition opened on May 29, 2018, the company press service reports. ‘Azerbaijan in particular and the Caspian Sea area in general are among MMK’s most appealing and promising markets. In 2017, MMK supplied more than 140,000,000 kg of goods to Azerbaijan, which is the largest amount delivered to the Southern Caucasus and to a NIS member state,’ the press service says. The Caspian Oil & Gas 2018 Exhibition is dedicated to

UrBC, Moscow, May 31, 2018. EVRAZ Holding and Russian University of Transport (MIIT) signed a cooperation agreement to work together to design, build, and operate transportation infrastructure facilities, the company press service reports. The paper was signed during the International Research-to-Practice High-Speed Rail Conference that Russian Railways’ Deputy Director-General Alexander Misharin is taking part in. Under the terms of the agreement, the two parties will cooperate in the field of designing, building, and operating transportation infrastructure facilities (including high-speed