Ural Airlines and Grazhdanskiye Samolyoty Sukhogo (Sukhoi Civil Aircraft) signed an agreement of intent regarding the purchase of five SuperJet100 airplanes. 'Ural Airlines thus made it clear that they intend to support Russian aircraft makers and, since the carrier needs some new airplanes with small seating capacity, the company held preliminary talks with representatives of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft; the agenda of this meeting covered looking into the technical characteristics of the aircraft and giving Ural Airlines’ future business partners all the data on the potential travel routes so

'I think Russian stock market could largely appeal to foreign investors that have business in Russia and are interested in attracting some more rubles for the development of their Russian assets. Besides, some of them might see trading at Russian stock exchanges as a clever image-shaping act that could bring the additional advertising benefit,’ FINAM Investment Company’s PR and Media Director Vladislav Kochetkov said to UrBC. In the meanwhile, the Federal Financial Market Service has been working on a new legislation that would allow foreign companies to sell their shares on Russian

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Pervouralsk Joint Stock Commercial Bank valid for 1 to 3 years went down by 89.1% (from 92 million RUR to 10 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Ural Interregional Bank to natural persons for 181 days to 1 year went down by 51.36% (from 16.184 million RUR to 7.872 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Uralprivatbank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for up to 30 days went down by 100% (from 1 million RUR to zero) in January-July 2007.

'Euroset (a consumer electronics chain store) had to stop acting as a travel agent because this project totally lacked potential,’ says Director of Inna Tour Travel Agency Inna Averyanova. 'Euroset’s first problem was the lack of professionals. Today, a traveler is a clever and well-informed person, so he or she wants to be dealt with by a qualified employee. As regards Euroset, most of the staff are students holding part-time jobs. Then, the personnel have every other two days off, which means a customer has no opportunity of consulting the manager that handles their order at any

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Sverdlovsk Gubersnkiy Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 31 to 90 days went down by 33.48% (from 176.67 million RUR to 117.12 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in GRAN Bank valid for 1 to 3 years went down by 22.7% (from 102.334 million RUR to 79.046 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

The value of net assets of Energy – Mixed Investments (the unit investment trust) managed by Eurogreen Management Company Ltd. went down by 10.5% on August 16, 2007 compared to July 16, 2007. According to Eurogreen’s website, the company’s net assets decreased from 5,352,219.92 RUR on July 16, 2007 to 4,785,707.37 RUR on August 16, 2007.

Two large Yekaterinburg-based car dealers that sell premium class cars have recently waged an information war against each other. This summer, the Internet has been flooded by some negative references to the two companies (namely, Autoland and Krasnolesye), both of which compete in terms of selling Volvo, Jaguar, and Land Rover cars. A number of information resources and online car forums have featured materials that could be damaging to one or the other company, and car dealers have said off the record that this could be the rivals’ attempts to outstrip each other. Early in August 2007, a