Sberbank’s two new brokerage and depositary operations centers welcomed their first visitors in Ufa on August 1, 2007. All of the bank’s customers willing to make money through stock exchange trading can now get serviced at the new offices 8598/0195 and 8598/0197 located at 10 Pervomayskaya St. and 79 Pushkin St. respectively, as well as at Sberbank of Russia’s Bashkirskiy branch one. 'Introducing more bank offices is the first step on the way to turning these smaller offices into full-fledged financial centers that would offer their customers the whole range of services an investor

The value of net assets of Energy – Mixed Investments, the unit investment trust managed by Eurogreen Management Company Ltd. keeps going down. According to Eurogreen’s website, the company’s net assets decreased from 5,209,096.02 RUR on July 31, 2007 to 4,990,236.27 RUR on August 1, 2007, or by 1.99%.

'We’ve been on the cellular communication market for five years now, and we’ve managed to persuade over three million people to use our services so far. MegaFon Ural is currently operating in 355 cities and towns based in ten different regions of Russia - and they are all united by a single home-area network. This means MegaFon Ural could provide reliable communication services to all the 15.5 million people living within this area. At the moment, every one in five people living in the Urals prefers to use MegaFon Ural,’ MegaFon Ural’s General Director Denis Malyshev announced at a press

Ural Airlines can boast of an improved website that now offers information on any of the carrier’s flights performed from or to a particular city (that is, from or to about thirty Russian ones and sixteen cities located abroad and in the CIS). If a customer happens to be exploring the airline’s website and picks a city, he or she will be shown a list of destinations and directions available from there as well as a list of airports the planes leave and arrive in, a complete timetable with all the departure and arrival time lists available; in addition, information on the duration and the

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of natural persons’ investments and deposits in Uralprivatbank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 33.8% (from 143.522 million RUR to 94.974 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by SberInvestBank to natural persons for 181 days to 1 year went down by 36.9% (from 6.331 million RUR to 3.992 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

'Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Antimonopoly Service is now once again looking into the recent increase in fuel prices introduced by Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg. The Service is trying to determine whether this increase was actually justified. The airport management claims this was brought about by growing wholesale purchasing prices, and we’ve already sent out a few inquiries to see if this really was the case,’ Head of Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Antimonopoly Service Marina Pushkareva said to UrBC. Koltsovo airport is now selling its fuel at 18,460 RUR per ton

The growth of Raiffeisenbank Austria’s loan volumes dropped by 3.5% in the first half of 2007 compared to the previous period. The bank is reported to have provided its customers with 26.481 billion RUR in January-June 2007, Interfax-CEA reports.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of nongovernmental financial institutions’ deposits in Yekaterinburg Municipal Bank valid for 31 to 90 days went down by 100% (from 1 million RUR to zero) in January-July 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by AGROPROMBANK Credit to natural persons for 181 days to 1 year went down by 27.4% (from 65.762 RUR to 47.719 RUR) in January-July 2007.