UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2019. FORES made some updates to the company’s Ethics and Worker Conduct Code, the company’s press service reports. Deputy Managing Director for Legal Issues at FORES Oleg Grigoriev says the company is trying to strike a balance between the workers’ rights and responsibilities in terms of how the employees may handle the information they get access to through work. ‘We made amendments to the respective sections of the code, setting strict limits as to how this information could be shared (including on social media) and to what extent the workers could

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 21, 2019. A time capsule will be placed on the construction site of Vysota Ice Academy (16A Kirov St, Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Region) in the course of a solemn ceremony at 4PM on August 21, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler, ChelPipe Chair of the BOD Andrei Komarov, representatives of Rosatom’s Mayak Production Association, and Mayor of Ozersk Evgeny Scherbakov will all attend the ceremony. ChelPipe Group signed the agreement to build Vysota Ice Academy with Rosatom Corporation and Chelyabinsk Region Government during

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s 8th EVRAZ Cup football championship is now over in Kachkanar. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The first prize went to Raspadskaya Coal Company’s team; EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise’s team and EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant’s team won silver and gold, respectively. ‘Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant’s team competed with EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s team for the third prize. The former’s Alexander Zakhars was the first to score in the game; it was also

UrBC, Moscow, August 20, 2019. Russian air travelers will now have to produce a phytosanitary certificate for any fruit, vegetables, seeds, or other agricultural flora items in their carry-on luggage (provided the total weight exceeds 5 kg). The new regulations came into effect on August 19 and will remain in place experimentally through 2022, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Nursery plants or cut flowers will require a certificate as well; you can still take three bouquets (up to 15 flowers each) on board certificate-free. If the certificate happens to be missing, the produce in question will get

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 20, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region-based employers owed their workers RUB 20.1 in delayed pay as of August 1, 2019, which exceeded the figures for one month earlier by 2.1%, Rosstat reports. In Russia on the whole, the arrears of wages amounted to RUB 2.7526bn in July, which was RUB 182.9m (7.1%) more than in June 2019. Wages and salaries were owed to 42,500 workers (under 1% of the workforce in the segments involved in Rosstat’s research). 46% of these workers are employed in the processing industry, 17% in the construction sector, 12% in the fossil extraction sector,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 20, 2019. Ural Airlines started paying compensations to passengers on Flight U6 178: the passenger plane had to perform an emergency landing in Moscow Region last week, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Ural Airlines started paying the compensations. Every passenger on the flight can get RUB 100,000,’ the press service says. According to the press service, the money will get paid within fourteen days of a passenger’s application into the bank account indicated by the applicant. ‘All the information relating to the compensation payments has been sent to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 20, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s social media experts created a digital game within the social network VKontakte. According to the bank’s press service, the new app helps users get acquainted with the UBRD’s new 240-day-grace-period credit card. ‘What we do is take the Dendy Generation’s 8-bit game nostalgia, mix in some cyberpunk and the zombie apocalypse (popular culture hits), season it all with clever product presentation and competition spirit, and feature the game winners on the UBRD page’s dynamic cover in VKontakte,’ says the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 20, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) supplied over 314,000,000 kg of metal goods to car makers in the first half of 2019, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 23%. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the plant sold 7.5% of its produce to car makers in the first six months of 2019 all in all. Sales to AvtoVAZ, UAZ, and Volkswagen rose considerably. Now MMK is the leading ferrous metal goods supplier for car factories and car part manufacturers. The plant supplies cold-rolled and hot-dip-galvanized rolled goods to all the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 19, 2019. Ural Airlines announced via the airline’s website that passengers on Flight U6 178 (Zhukovsky-Simferopol) that involved an emergency landing in Moscow Region yesterday would get their compensations. To make up for the damage (including the moral kind), Ural Airlines will pay each passenger RUB 100,000. The money will get paid to the bank account indicated within fourteen days of the application. Passengers’ injury- and other health-related claims will get handled by the insurance company (to be contacted at aviahelp@alfastrah.ru).

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 19, 2019. 12 alumni of ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program who completed their studies at A.V. Yakovlev Chelyabinsk State Industrial/Humanities School took their military oath this week, the Group’s press service reports. The ceremony took place in Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk Region; the new recruits will serve their army term in the Group-supported regiment in Shagol, Chelyabinsk Region. ‘ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program covers training and practice at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 19, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) came up with a new income-raising opportunity for its private customers. The bank now offers two new deposits that come with a life insurance policy (cash-value or unit-linked). According to the bank’s press service, the minimum deposit amount begins at RUB 50,000; the money gets placed with the bank for 180 days at 7.7% a year; the interest gets paid every thirty days and can either get added to the total deposit amount or get paid into your debit card account. A cash-value life insurance policy

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 19, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) keeps working on its industrial tourism project where everyone can have a guided tour of the plant’s production site; so far, nearly 9,000 people have visited the premises as tourists. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, their industrial tourism project took off last October. As a matter of fact, the plant was open to visitors even before that, as partners, customers, equipment and raw stuff suppliers, and representatives of other metallurgical enterprises all came to the country’s leading

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region’s first 240,000-kg-strong BelAZ dump truck got assembled and commissioned at Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK), EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The vehicle got commissioned and sent to work in the course of a solemn opening ceremony attended by EVRAZ NTMK and EVRAZ KGOK Managing Director Alexei Kushnarev, the plant’s management, and EVRAZ KGOK employees. ‘The new, powerful dump truck will be used in our existing mines and at the opening of Sobstvenno-Kachkanarskoye Deposit in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2019. 30 alumni of ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program who completed their studies at Pervouralsk Metallurgical School took their military oath this week; the ceremony took place in a military regiment in Gorny Shchit, the Group’s press service reports. ‘ChelPipe Group supports and supervises the regiments where our training course alumni are serving their army terms. Throughout the following twelve months, the new recruits will focus on their military skills and will also keep on investing in their personal and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2019. OOO FORES’s partner enterprise TekhnoKeramika intends to increase the output of Production Line 4 to 90,000 kg of produce per shift, FORES’s press service refers to the company’s Senior Engineer Petr Maleyev as stating. ‘As the plant is less busy with the pelletizing segment right now, we focused on reconstructing Line 4 in order to bring its productivity from the current 50,000 to 60,000 kg of produce per shift up to 90,000 kg. The plan is to complete everything in two months and to do everything on our own, without any outside help,’ Maleyev says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2019. Ural Airlines’ passenger plane Airbus A321 that performed an emergency landing in Ramenskoye, Moscow Region, got badly damaged and is now out of operation; a backup plane will be sent for passengers on this flight. ‘Thanks to the crew’s professionalism and teamwork, there were no tragic outcomes to the landing. There were 224 passengers on board, no-one got injured during the landing, the passengers were evacuated and are now at the airport terminal,’ the air carrier’s press service says. Damir Yusupov was the pilot and Georgiy Murzin was the co-pilot on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2019. Ural Airlines’ passenger plane had to perform an emergency landing near Moscow; Ural Airlines flight U6178 (Zhukovsky-Simferopol) hit a flock of birds shortly after take-off, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The birds got sucked into the engines, so the pilot had to make an emergency landing. There are no casualties among either the crew members or the passengers,’ the press service says.

UrBC, Moscow, August 15, 2019. The price of a summer vacation rose by 9% to 10% for Russian travelers this year compared with one year earlier, TASS refers to Executive Director at Russia’s Tour Operators Association (ATOR) Maya Lomidze as stating. ‘The prices didn’t rise very much against last year: the increase in the market’s average was about 9-10%, for every summer destination,’ Lomidze says. According to Lomidze, certain locations — Turkey, Krasnodar Territory resorts, Cyprus, and Bulgaria — actually cost less to travel to this August, despite the peak season. The ATOR also points to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2019. The number of apartments currently on offer on Yekaterinburg existing home market declined by 3.2% in the last month and came to 8,600 units, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s report indicates. As of August 5, 2019, the asking price of an existing home came to RUB 72,634 per m2 on average in Yekaterinburg, down 0.1% on four weeks previously. It typically takes four months for a home to sell.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region came 11th in the national rating of car loan amount dynamics in the second quarter of 2019. The mean car loan amount in the area rose by 10.8% against one year earlier and reached RUB 739,558. According to the National Credit History Bureau, Moscow was No.1 in the rating as usual, with the mean car loan amount at RUB 1.115m (up 11.1% on 2018). Moscow Region (RUB 965,988, +13.8% on 2018) and Saint Petersburg (RUB 940,840, +12.1%) come next. Kemerovo Region (RUB 466,700), Kirov Region (RUB 547,200), Udmurtia (RUB 617,300), and Tatarstan