UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2018. Over 7,000 enforcement proceedings relating to unpaid capital housing repairs bills are currently being processed by Russia’s Federal Service of Court Officers’ Sverdlovsk Region division. According to the division’s press service, 3,000 debtors won’t be able to travel abroad while their debts remain unpaid. Another 2,500 people have been forbidden to sell or rent out their automobiles; most of the debtors had their bank accounts seized as well.

UrBC, Nizhniy Tagil, November 8, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works (NTMK) won Russia’s Environmental Leader Award 2018 as Best Environmentally Responsible Primary Employer in Town, EVRAZ’s PR Department reports. The company got awarded for its efforts to reduce the environmental impact it makes. ‘EVRAZ NTMK launched its new Blast Furnace 7 with a powerful suction unit this year. Overhead emission-trapping appliances are now used at every iron-tapping session. The exhaust gases get filtered with 5,888 sock filters, which reduces their final dust contest by 2.5 times,’

UrBC, Moscow, November 8, 2018. The Russian Government might support certain large businesses in case they get hit by the U.S. sanctions yet again, Prime refers to Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev as telling reporters. Now the U.S. authorities announced on Tuesday that Russia apparently failed to comply with their chemical and biological weapons control regulations. According to State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, they ‘intend to proceed in accordance with the terms of the CBW ACT, which directs the implementation of additional sanctions,’ as it could not be certified that

UrBC, Moscow, November 8, 2018. Zhukovsky International Airport welcomed its millionth passenger of the year on November 6, 2018. The passenger was Yelena Melnikova, who flew from Tbilisi to Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, on board Ural Airlines’ flight U62466. Ms. Melnikova traveled with her daughter, Daria, who joined in the fun, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘We expected nothing of the kind upon our arrival at the airport. When people started greeting us at the terminal, my first thought was that something bad must have happened. And yet this proved to be such a pleasant surprise! We

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2018. As of November 5, 2018, the average price of apartments currently on offer on Yekaterinburg existing home market comes to RUR 70,184 per m2, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. Analysts explain the last time the price figures exceeded RUR 70,000 per m2 was in February 2016. The average housing price has been rising steadily since last summer. The reasons for this price increase are rooted in the market supply structure: the least expensive homes sell fast as they enjoy the greatest demand, while the most expensive apartments grow even pricier. The average

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 8, 2018. Under Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky’s initiative to support the gas infrastructure in the area, some 80,000 local families have been provided with access to natural gas supply infrastructure and some 1,500 km of new pipelines have been built since 2014. According to the Southern Urals Government’s press service, more than RUR 2.7bn got allocated from the constituency’s budget to gas supply infrastructure development in 2014-2017 in full compliance with Governor Dubrovsky’s policy. 1,057 km of new pipelines got built, and 67,400 end users

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2018. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) is planning to have the equipment at thirty-seven of its power substations in Western Siberia upgraded. The project will require RUR 472m in investments, FGC UES’s Western Siberia PR & Media Group reports. ‘We’ll have high-voltage appliances that serve as the link between the electric mains and the transformer substations replaced. As a result, end users in Tyumen Region, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, and Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region (over 3.6m people altogether as well as large oil and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2018. MegaFon and Actum are coordinating their MegaDataHack hackathon in Yekaterinburg on November 16-18, 2018. This is the second time MegaFon is organizing a hackathon in search of gifted young people with fresh ideas, knowledge, and ambition. The first hackathon in the MegaDataHack series took place in Novosibirsk on October 6-7. The Yekaterinburg contestants will face three challenges in three different fields. First, they will have to design an original chat bot meant for project management. Next, they will have to create an automatic bill payment

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 7, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group’s member enterprises’s quality management systems, environmental management systems, and industrial and job safety management systems were recently witness-audited successfully for compliance with the international standards ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the international certifying authority TUV NORD CERT’s auditing procedures covered both MMK’s structural and functional divisions as well as the Group’s key organizations involved in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2018. Rosatom Energomash’s asset SverdNIIKhimmash supplied an evaporator unit to Kursk Nuclear Power Station in October, the company press service reports. The unit is part of the liquid radioactive waste filtering and reprocessing system and is meant for salting-up through vacuum evaporation. The unit cost more than RUR 4.5m to buy. The evaporator was made by Krasnodar-based AK ESKM Corporation on schedule and in full compliance with the technical specifications provided by SverdNIIKhimmash; the evaporator meets all the necessary quality requirements and has

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Tyva-based Mezhegeyugol Coal Company’s miners (Section 1 team, run by manager Andrey Balek and foreman Alexei Perchuk) did 1,731m worth of headwork in October, thus setting a new national record, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports. Once their record-setting shift was over, the miners received a perpetual trophy and special thank-you letters in the course of a solemn ceremony. The symbolic piece of coal was handed over to Mezhegeyugol Coal Company’s Director Alexander Lukinykh. ‘Mezhegeyugol’s production record was made possible due to

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 6, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group made 31.7% more in net profit (calculated in accordance with the IAS) in January-September 2018 compared with one year earlier, with the overall figure reaching $1.072bn, the company reports. The Group’s consolidated revenue rose by 11.7% and thus amounted to $6.252bn. Its EBITDA came to $1.881bn (up 30.6%), its EBITDA profit margin stood at 30.1% against 25.7% a year earlier. MMK’s profit rose by 2.3% in the third quarter of the year compared with the second quarter and thus amounted to $401m. Its EBITDA

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 6, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and MasterCard present their customers with an opportunity to win tickets to a hockey game during the Continental Hockey League Championship in Yekaterinburg, Ufa, and Chelyabinsk on November 27-December 31, 2018. According to the bank’s press service, you need to use your URBD Mastercard to pay for at least RUR 4,000 worth of purchases on November 5-18, November 19-December 2, and December 3-9 in order to be eligible for the prize-drawing. There will be three prize-drawing events all in all, with

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 6, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) with its RUR 440bn in last year’s revenues was rated No.5 in Expert Ural 400 Rating this month. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the company did just as well as last year on this rating. This happens to be the highest ranking among all the companies outside of the oil and gas sector. As for the two national Expert 400 and RBC 500 ratings, MMK was given the 26th and the 27th positions on the country level, respectively. The rating gets compiled by Expert Analytical Center on the basis of the

UrBC, Moscow, November 6, 2018. Aeroflot Group is planning on putting up a number of additional air bases throughout the country under the company’s new strategy. There will appear an international hub in Krasnoyarsk and three bases in Sochi, Yekaterinburg, and Novosibirsk, the air carrier’s press service reports. The goal is to enable the airline to raise its international transit traffic from 5m passengers in 2017 to 10m-15m by 2023, and to triple the number of Aeroflot’s short-range domestic flights from 7m passengers in 2017 to 19m by 2023.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 6, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing more flights from Yekaterinburg to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and back; special prices apply for all the flights, starting from as little as RUR 2,990 (one way) and RUR 5,615 (round trip). The tickets are already on offer. Flight U6 21 Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Sheremetyevo) will be operated every Wednesday and Thursday. Departure: 5 PM; arrival: 5:40 PM. Flight U6 1 Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Sheremetyevo) is operated daily. Departure: 7:30 AM; arrival: 7:50 AM. Flight U6 22 Moscow (Sheremetyevo)-Yekaterinburg will be operated

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2018. Ural Airlines introduce new Osh-Sochi-Osh flights starting November 4, 2018. Flight U6 2519/2520 will be available every Sunday. According to the company’s press service, prices start from RUR 9,800 (one way, all fees included, one piece of luggage under 23 kg, one piece of cabin luggage under 5 kg, and a meal on board included). The flights will be operated on Airbus liners. In fact, Ural Airlines have introduced several new flights to Kyrgyzstan this fall. You can now get to Osh from Krasnodar, Anapa, and Kazan. Tickets are available on the company

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2018. Russia’s most northernmost oil deposit/platform Messoyakhaneftegaz can now enjoy a high-speed LTE connection thanks to MegaFon, the latter’s press service reports. Messoyakhaneftegaz teams that are currently working on Vostochno-Messoyakhskoye Deposit can use the 4G Internet connection now; it only took MegaFon 120 days to get all the work done. Messoyakhaneftegaz works on the less easily accessible oil and gas reserves in the Arctic (the north of Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region), with limited access to transport and industrial infrastructure. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2018. Europe’s and Asia’s leading architects are going to discuss renovation projects at 100+ Forum Russia in Yekaterinburg, the forum coordinators report. ‘The 5th International High-Rise Construction 100+ Forum Russia invited globally acknowledged experts to present their renovation projects for today’s metropolises. The architects will try to answer the critical question of how to keep the place’s original historic look while complementing its urban environment with the new infrastructure the growing cities need to develop,’ the announcement goes. The

UrBC, Moscow, November 2, 2018. Toyota Motor Corp. and Subaru Corp. announced they were calling off 400,000+ automobiles to have an engine defect fixed, Prime refers to Dow Jones as stating. Called off are several popular Subaru makes, including Forester, Impreza, and BRZ. Toyota is calling off its sports car makes 86 and Scion FR-S that are made by Subaru. The car manufacturers explain the engine springs are found to be prone to breaking, which might cause a sudden full halt and an accident. The springs are meant to keep the engine flap closed while the fuel is burning, so broken springs