Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by SberInvestBank to sole traders despite overdraft account went down by 100% (from 1.622 million RUR to zero) in January-July 2007.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta came up with a rating of Russia’s largest banks in terms of consumer loans in the first half of 2007. According to the data the newspaper provided, Russian banks offered their customers a total of 583 billion RUR worth of loans in January-June 2007. Uniastrum Bank, for instance, provided its borrowers with 346.7 million RUR worth of non-collateral loans in the first half of the year, which falls short of the figures for January-June 2006 by 13.5%.

The division of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Ural Federal District reports the local militiamen conducted 1,745 inspections aimed at protecting finances allocated for the implementation of top priority national projects in January-July 2007. These inspections revealed 113 offenses that have already resulted in 99 criminal lawsuits, including 31 cases related to the National Health Project, 24 cases related to the National Education Project, 43 cases related to the National Housing Project, and 15 cases related to the National Agriculture Project. 43 cases have been classed as

'The construction of the third part of ANTEY Shopping Center had to be stopped for the time being, at least this is true of the visible part of the process. The decision to stop it was made because, as it turned out, we don’t have a construction permit and could be faced with a large fine if we ventured to go on building,’ founder of ANTEY Business Center Andrei Gavrilovskiy said to UrBC. The third part of the center was supposed to have been commissioned in 2008, the company’s official website reports. The total area of the new extension was expected to come to 108,470 square meters and

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Ural Interregional Bank to profit-making self-regulatory organizations for up to 30 days went down by 40.7% (from 23.6 million RUR to 14 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta came up with a rating of Russia’s largest banks in terms of consumer loans in the first half of 2007. According to the data the newspaper provided, Russian banks offered their customers a total of 583 billion RUR worth of loans in January-June 2007. Agroprombank Credit, for instance, provided its borrowers with 385.3 million RUR worth of non-collateral loans in the first half of the year, which falls short of the figures for January-June 2006 by 22.47%.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by UIC Bank to natural persons for 1 to 3 years went down by 53.9% (from 27.811 million RUR to 12.828 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

Ural Airlines and Yekaterinburg branch of Vympelcom (aka Beeline) looked at the success of their joint project known as Cell Retail aboard Ural Airlines that was first launched about a year ago and is available on all of the carrier’s flights. The airline’s press officer repots the project is mainly targeted at offering extra services to Beeline subscribers who choose to use Ural Airlines as well. While in flight, passengers can purchase 100-, 250-, and 500-ruble phone cards and Beeline subscription packages. ‘We keep updating the range of passenger services on regular basis; some of these

SKB-Bank evaluated its performance in the first seven months of 2007. The bank’s net assets have increased by over 11.7 billion RUR and amounted to 25.1 billion RUR on August 1, 2007, the bank’s press officer reports. SKB-Bank’s loan portfolio exceeded 17 billion RUR on August 1, 2007 compared with only 9.3 billion RUR a year earlier. The volume of the finances the bank has managed to attract nearly doubled against last August and reached 22.6 billion RUR, with the better part of the money (6.8 billion RUR) coming from natural persons. SKB-Bank’s own resources came to 2.898 billion RUR and

Following the decision taken by RAO UES of Russia Board of Directors on April 27, 2007, what was formerly known as the Urals and Volga Interregional Network Company is to be named the Urals Interregional Network Company now. The company has also acquired an English name - something it did not use to have before, the spokesperson for the new enterprise reports. This means that re-structuring the whole system of the interregional power distribution networks has resulted in setting up a new large Ural company that will unite the electric networks of Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, and Kurgan Regions as