HomeMaterials for August 2007 yearPage 2
29 August 200711:58

RENOVA Stroy Group announces open contest

RENOVA Stroy Group announced an open contest on developing and promoting the concept of the future Academic district of Yekaterinburg; the winner will be able to sign a contract with the company. Academic construction project is RENOVA’s first multi-faceted area development program currently implemented in Russia. The new district is to appear in the south-west of Yekaterinburg and is expected to occupy 2,500 hectares of land, with 1,200 hectares covered by forests and parks and 1,300 hectares used for putting up over 9 million square meters of housing and over 4.2 million square meters of
29 August 200711:54

We don’t usually offer URALSIB’s mortgages to our clients, RTA Ltd says

‘We don’t usually offer Bank URALSIB’s mortgage schemes to our customers because many of the terms are not very suitable for our agency. There are plenty of much more appealing mortgages available from some other banks,’ Tatiana Bersina of RTA Ltd said to UrBC. Ms Bersina says a lot of their customers admit that URALSIB’s mortgage offers are far from being advantageous for them. ‘This bank’s mortgages have overwhelming interest rates and extremely great demands for the amount of money placed as the first installment. Besides, many of our customers come from places outside Yekaterinburg,
29 August 200711:52

Ural Airlines starts fall season sale

Ural Airlines started its traditional fall season ticket sale; the prices have already dropped down to 2,500 to 3,000 RUR apiece, the carrier’s press officer reports. The new prices will be offered on tickets for Yekaterinburg-Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg-Anapa, and Yekaterinburg-Sochi flights; the cheapest tickets are available at 2,575 RUR, 2,775 RUR, and 3,025 RUR, respectively (excluding the fuel and agents’ fees). The airline’s customers can acquire the tickets in any of Ural Airlines’ offices and use these advantageous prices to go on a fall vacation. As for the passengers who prefer to
29 August 200711:48

BrokerCreditService Ltd claims foreign companies aren’t interested in Russian stock market

‘I don’t believe foreign companies are actually very interested in entering the Russian stock market. I’d say the businesses that really do want to break into it are the ones operating in the CIS and the ones located in the countries that seek to cooperate with Russia rather than the West, such as Kazakhstan, Byelorussia, Ukraine, and, very likely, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan,’ Director of BrokerCreditService Company Ltd Viktor Nemikhin said to UrBC. The Federal Financial Market Service is currently elaborating a new bill that would allow foreign enterprises to offer their shares at Russian
29 August 200711:46

1,647 violations of land laws revealed in Sverdlovsk Region in January-July 2007

Rosnedvizhimost (the state land-laws watchdog) revealed 38,000 violations of land laws in Russia in the first half of 2007, with 4,437 state inspectors responsible for the land surveillance. Over 92,000 inspections aimed at checking the compliance with the existing legislation were conducted in January-July 2007, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by one-third. The greatest number of violations was recorded in the Republic of Bashkortostan (3,130), the Republic of Tatarstan (1,890), Krasnodar Territory (1,689), Sverdlovsk Region (1,647), Moscow Region (1,214), Samara Region (1,169),
29 August 200711:42

URSA Bank sets up seventh office in Tatarstan

URSA Bank set up its seventh office in the Republic of Tatarstan on August 7, 2007. The bank has already got branches in four local cities, namely, Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Zelenodolsk, and Nizhnekamsk. The new office is located at 12 Adoratskiy St. in Kazan. URSA Bank’s Tatarstan Branch Retail Business Director Vitaliy Sernov says the bank’s retail services are targeted at offering popular high-tech banking products and quality service to their customers. The city dwellers can now use the bank’s loans (including car loans) and money order services and perform foreign currency operations
28 August 200708:10

Koltsovo airport to practice new safety routines for one month

The new regulations regarding the safety check and search of passengers prior to and after the flight came into force on August 27, 2007; the corresponding decree No. 104 was adopted by the Ministry of Transport on July 25, 2007, the spokesperson for Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg reports. The new rules provide for much stricter ways of checking the passengers’ luggage, cabin luggage, and their personal search in order to ensure greater safety aboard a plane. People traveling via Koltsovo airport can get acquainted with the list of prohibited items and substances using the airport’s
28 August 200708:04

Krasnolesie car center claims negative publicity website emerged through either rivals or activists

‘We are aware of existence; the emergence of this website has not resulted from our activity on the whole or from actions taken by some of our employees. We do not know the names of people who might be interested in damaging our reputation. In fact, these could really be some activists that are fighting for allegedly truthful depiction of facts about all of Yekaterinburg-based car dealers online. On the other hand, this site could have been created by our rivals,’ Krasnolesie Car Center’s Executive Director Igor Surkov said to UrBC. The website www.rfblog.ru is regularly updated with some
28 August 200707:56

BC-Communications says two car dealers might lose their licenses due to information war

‘Neither of the two car dealers is going to win anything as a result of the current public relations warfare. One of them might be able to entice a number of customers through blackening its rival at first, but in the long run, people are going to shun both companies,’ Director of Saint Petersburg-based BC Communications Olga Chernyshova said to UrBC. She believes the continuation of this mutual negative publicity campaign will affect the sales of both car centers badly. ‘The customers will simply get confused and are bound to stop trusting both companies. This means they will start buying