Uniastrum Bank’s Yekaterinburg branch stopped offering its customers dollar and Euro mortgages, the bank’s call center reports.

This is believed to be a temporary decision, so mortgage loans given in foreign currency are likely to become available again in mid-October. The call center assistants were unable to comment on the reasons for adopting this new policy, though.

Uniastrum Bank first announced it was going to stop dealing in mortgages on August 31, 2007. The bank’s representatives said then that they only meant the bank would take a little longer to process the loan applications they’d already had because of switching to new types of software.