UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 19, 2018. Public prosecution authorities of Yekaterinburg’s District Zheleznodorozhny identified six websites that sell salmon trout (Hucho taimen), Siberian white salmon (Stenodus leucichthys), and whitefish (Coregonus gen.) online. All of the three fish varieties are currently on Russia’s endangered species list. ‘The prosecuting attorney appealed to Yekaterinburg’s Zheleznodorozhny Court, asking to rule that it is illegal to make public any information relating to online trading in salmon trout, Siberian white salmon, and whitefish,’ Sverdlovsk Region Public

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 19, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) legal team, headed by Senior Legal Adviser Sergey Shepilov, was featured on Legal 500 list of Russia’s best Departments for Legal Issues. According to MMK Information & PR Department, GC Powerlist: Russia Teams features the most influential and innovative Legal Departments operating within Russian companies. The rating is based on the leading market experts’ assessments. MMK lawyers are described as highly skilled, talented, and experienced. Their profound expertise in the field of business processes results

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 19, 2018. Ural Airlines are going to operate up to nine Moscow-Blagoveshchensk flights a week; prices start from RUR 20,000 for a round trip ticket, the air carrier’s press service reports. In addition to daily Blagoveshchensk-Yekaterinburg-Moscow flights U6 299/300, more flights will get operated starting November 30, 2018. Flight U6 30 Blagoveshchensk-Yekaterinburg-Moscow will be available every Tuesday and Saturday; flight U6 29 Moscow-Yekaterinburg-Blagoveshchensk will be available on Mondays and Fridays. Special-offer prices start from RUR 20,000 (there and

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 19, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) intends to co-finance the projects of MMK Industrial Park’s residents in order to support and promote business development in Magnitogorsk, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. The co-financing will be offered to the most successful applicants planning to set up a new production facility or expand an existing one. MMK will supply up to 30% of the entire project’s cost, but no more than RUR 15m all in all. ‘This is seen as yet another incentive for the companies coming to set up an industrial

UrBC, Moscow, November 16, 2018. Russia’s State Duma adopted (in the third reading) a number of adjustments to the Budget Code to make sure that federal constituencies get to keep 80% of excise duty payments on strong drinks, the Duma’s website states. Besides, the consciences will also be able to keep up to 100% of excise duty payments on oil/mineral products within their own local budgets. As of now, the local budgets only get 50% of excise duty payments on strong drinks with over 9% alcohol content. It was decided that the percentage should go up to make up for the federal consciences’

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 16, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and Magnitogorsk Council keep working together to plant more trees and shrubs in town; the investments are estimated at RUR 57m. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, 10,500 young trees and shrubs will get planted in the next six years. The program to introduce more greenery in Magnitogorsk with MMK’s funds in 2018-2023 has been elaborated this year and approved of by MMK’s Director-General Pavel Shilyayev and Mayor of Magnitogorsk Sergey Berdnikov. The plant is already contributing to tree-planting

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 16, 2018. Ural Airlines now operate their direct Khabarovsk-Yekaterinburg flight thrice a week: on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays (and Yekaterinburg-Khabarovsk one on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays). According to the air carrier’s press service, the non-stop flight only used to be available on Thursdays during the summer. Prices for the direct Khabarovsk-Yekaterinburg-Khabarovsk flight start from RUR 27,626 (round trip). Tickets are already on offer on the company website www.uralairlines.com, through Ural Airlines mobile app, over the phone +7-800-7700-262,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 16, 2018. Chair of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Board of Directors Viktor Rashnikov was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree dated November 13, 2018, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The order was given ‘for work achievements and many years of conscientious performance,’ the Kremlin’s website states. A native of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, Viktor Rashnikov turned seventy on October 13, 2018. He has been working at MMK for over half a century now, as he first came to the plant in 1967.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 16, 2018. ChelPipe Group is currently implementing a large-scale environmental project: based on the agreement ChelPipe Group, Russia’s Ministry for Natural Resources & The Environment, Rosprirodnadzor, and Chelyabinsk Region Government signed in 2016, a number of manufacturing water filtering facilities will get put up at the Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe). According to the Group’s press service, the plant is now at the first stage of project implementation and is working on the acid waste filtering facilities. This will cost more than RUR

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2018. 7,804,470 people flew with Ural Airlines in the first ten months of 2018, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 14%. According to the air carrier’s press service, Ural Airlines offered its services to 4,274,912 passengers on domestic flights, 2,058,305 passengers on international flights, and 1,471,253 passengers flying to and from the CIS member states. The company operated 52,695 flights in January-October 2018 (up 12% on a year earlier), including 29,251 domestic ones, 13,193 international ones, and 10,251 flights to and from the CIS

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 15, 2018. MMK Trading House and its subdivisions won several prestigious awards from the Russian Union of Metal and Steel Suppliers (RSPM). According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the awarding ceremony took place at Metal Week in Moscow. Every year, the RSPM hosts three nationwide contests between July and October: Russia’s Best Metal Depot, Russia’s Best Steel Service Center, and Russia’s Best Sales Network. The goal is to bring into the limelight the achievements and best practices in the metal goods distribution sector and in the Russian steel

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering their customers reduced-price tickets for flights operated from Yekaterinburg to Sochi, Mineralnye Vody, and Krasnodar and back, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The skiing season takes off in November, so the resorts in Krasnodar Territory are ready for their first visitors. You can choose from the variously priced resorts near Sochi - Rosa Hutor, Gorky Gorod, Gazprom, Alpica Servis, and Lago Naki. There are skiing pistes for both beginners and professional skiers and all the infrastructure necessary for great family

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development increased the annual interest rate offered on its two ruble-based savings deposit types by 0.25% on November 14. This means the bank’s private customers can now get up to 7.5% a year on their savings (in case the deposit gets opened online or through a mobile banking app; plus, you also need to subscribe to the all-inclusive package), the bank’s press service reports. The interest rates went up for two dollar deposit types as well: you can now get up to 3% a year on these (in case the deposit gets

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2018. Over 50,000 smart machines operating in the Urals have been connected, with MegaFon’s SIM cards, to the M2M monitoring system, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. ‘Sensors, meters, cash machines, industrial appliances and terminls get switched to remote control options increasingly more often. There are now twice as many companies and business owners in the Urals who control their equipment online through machine-to-machine monitoring as there were at the start of the year. The overall number of the IoT devices is now comparable wit

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 14, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) adopted a strategy of ongoing investments in production upgrades for the next few years; the goal is to grow more efficient and reduce the plant’s environmental impact, MMK’s Key Customer Sales & Marketing Director Evgeny Sarana says. According to the company’s press service, Sarana said during his report at the 21st Russian Metal Market International Conference in Moscow on November 12 that the metal goods market had reached its saturation point, so the extensive growth phase was over. ‘In the future, given

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new Krasnoyarsk-Sochi-Krasnoyarsk flight this winter: the flight will be available between December 30, 2018 and March 31, 2019, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flight U6 689: Departure (Krasnoyarsk): 8:45 AM; arrival (Sochi): 10:55 AM; the flight is 6 hours and 10 minutes long and gets operated every Sunday. Flight U6 690: Departure (Sochi): 10 PM; arrival (Krasnoyarsk): 7:25 AM; the flight is 5 hours and 25 minutes long and gets operated every Saturday. One piece of luggage, one piece of cabin luggage, and one

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2018. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) recently hosted Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and ChelPipe Group’s 23d Coordination Council session on strategic cooperation. The session was attended by workers from the two companies’ sales, finance, production, tech, and logistics departments, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. The two parties looked into their performance over the course of last year and made plans for the coming one. ‘MMK is our long-term, reliable metal supplier that handles around 50% of our steel sheet orders and more

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2018. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems started a series of emergency and fire prevention drills in late September to keep its rescue teams ready for action in harsh climatic conditions and for efficient interaction with the federal and local authorities, FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR & Media Group reports. ‘The company will coordinate three-month drills in each and every one of its eight subsidiaries. The drills are expected to result in nearly 10,000 hectares of cleared electric main passageways to ensure reliable power supply to end

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2018. EVRAZ Holding is now working to reconstruct its Tashtagol Iron Ore Mine. The goal is to make the holding more self-reliant in terms of raw stuffs supply through raising its iron ore output by 1.5 times (from 2.2m tons up to 3.25m tons a year). The project requires around RUR 6.8bn in investments, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports. ‘Sibiryak Skip Shaft will get involved to deliver the necessary materials into and the iron ore out of the mine. Besides, a special underground crushing plant will get installed at 350 meters under the ground. Tashtagol

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 13, 2018. Ural Airlines are launching a seasonal sale on flights to popular international destinations, the air carrier’s press service reports. You can get your reduced-price tickets on the company website www.uralairlines.com, using Ural Airlines mobile app, or over the phone. The offer applies to flights to be operated between November 12 and December 25, 2018 and between January 3 and February 20, 2019 (for flights with a stopover in Moscow/Yekaterinburg) and between November 12, 2018 and February 20, 2019 (for direct flights). For a full list of flights on