Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Uralfinance Bank to natural persons for 91 to 180 days went down by 99.66% (from 10.37 million RUR to 35,000 RUR) in January-October 2007.

The Bank of Russia came up with data on bank card transactions performed in different Russian regions in the third quarter of 2007. Moscow and Moscow Region, with their 44.8 million cardholders, and Saint Petersburg, with its 4.6 million cardholders, were traditionally the most developed parts of the country in this respect, while Sverdlovsk Region was given the fourth position. There were over 3 million registered cardholders there on October 1, 2007. SKB-Bank reports the region’s dwellers performed 19.2 million bank card transactions worth 72 million RUR in July-September 2007. Actually,

'The price of a product should depend on the quality of the strong drink rather than on the type of bottle and packaging used. Khortytsa sees its products’ outstanding quality as the company’s utmost priority, so the statistical data we have are hardly surprising: anyone who’s tried our drink at least once will stay loyal to the brand forever. We are already supplying alcohol to seventy-seven different countries, which means we’ve managed to win our customers over as well as convince them that our vodka is a great quality product,’ Khortytsa’s Marketing Director Sergey Velichko says. In

Ural Airlines was able to keep its Yekaterinburg-Irkutsk flight in its winter timetable. The flight is operated twice a week (Tuesdays and Sundays) using a modern comfortable A 320 plane. Each Tuesday and Sunday, the plane leaves for Irkutsk at 5.05 AM and 2.25 AM respectively. Every Wednesday and Sunday, the plane takes off in Irkutsk at 12.35 AM and 10.05 PM respectively. 'A 320 is the most suitable type of airplane for this destination: it’s very fuel efficient, which is why we can still afford to use it in the winter even though the passenger traffic is on the decrease,’ says Ural

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by UralFinPromBank to sole traders for 31 to 90 days went down by 21.33% (from 1.5 million RUR to 1.18 million RUR) in January-October 2007.

Olips, one of Yekaterinburg’s major developers, is going to present its projects at MAPIC commercial estate exhibition in Cannes on November 14-16, 2007. Olips’s presentation will be made within the framework of the Russian Trade Center Union’s exhibition project and is to cover the company’s four current projects: the Dirigible Mall, Parkoviy Trade and Entertainment Center, Magnet Trade and Entertainment Center, and Fashion Gallery. MAPIC is one of the world’s most respectable commercial estate exhibitions. ‘Apart from giving one a chance to be in the know of all the news in the field and

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by UralPrivatBank to sole traders for 91 to 180 days went down by 100% (from 75,000 RUR to zero) in January-October 2007.

Engine-house employees from Sverdlovsk-Passagirskiy, Perm-2, Perm-Sortirovochnaya, and Vologda depots decided to join in the Russian Railways Public Company’s personnel strike scheduled by their trade union for the end of November 2007. The decision was taken at the trade union meeting after the company refused to meet the union’s demands.

Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Federal Antimonopoly Service claims that Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg, RusAviaJet Ltd., Ural Oil Company, and Aviaprad have been violating the Federal Competition Protection Act, the regional spokesperson for the Service reports. The Service found out the four businesses had apparently colluded in such a way that could lead to unjustifiably differing prices determined for one and the same kind of product. Then, Koltsovo airport is reported to be pursuing a pricing policy that could limit or even completely eliminate the market competition and infringe on

Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Federal Antimonopoly Service keeps collecting evidence for the upcoming court hearing of UralTransBank and Bank Severnaya Kazna’s case; the two companies are accused of violating the antimonopoly legislation. 'Our division is now busy piecing together all the customers’ complaints about overpriced insurance tariffs these banks imposed on their loans,’ Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Federal Antimonopoly Service Sergei Volkov said to UrBC. The Service claimed UralTransBank and Bank Severnaya Kazna violated the Federal Competition Protection