Volume of loans given by UralTransBank to state-run for-profit organizations for 181 days to 1 year went down by 41.8% (from 3.15 million RUR to 1.833 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for up to 30 days went down by 56.49% (from 85.734 million RUR to 37.303 million RUR) in January-October 2007.

SKB-Bank has recently launched a new bank card for natural persons known as VISA Electron Instant Issue. 'VISA Electron Instant Issue is an ‘emergency card’ of sorts that is offered to customers who don’t have time on their hands to wait for the regular card. It often happens that one really needs a card for, say, traveling abroad, going away on business, getting some cash urgently or making a non-cash payment. In some cases, the principal card gets lost, stolen, or damaged. It can might also become invalid due a name change, but a customer still needs the money they had in their

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Ural Innovational Commercial Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 91 to 180 days went down by 49.9% (from 25.65 million RUR to 12.85 million RUR) in January-October 2007.

The public prosecution authorities of Verkhnyaya Salda, the regional division of Rostechnadzor (the state technological, environmental, and nuclear safety watchdog), and Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the State Labor Inspection are going to examine VSMPO AVISMA Corporation to see how effectively the enterprise meets the labor protection, industrial safety, sanitary and other regulations. The inspection has been brought about by the fact that a high-pressure vessel exploded on a gas furnace in one of the company’s shops at about 11 PM on December 2, 2007. As a result, six workers were badly

MOTIV, one of Sverdlovsk Region’s mobile operators, came up with a new tariff scheme that came to be called NEXT FRESH. The new tariff’s major peculiarity is that your conversations are being charged per every second (rather than minute), and all outgoing calls will cost you only .03 RUR per second regardless of whether you call someone who is MOTIV‘s subscriber or not, MOTIV’s press officer reports. In addition, all calls within MOTIV’s network are only charged for the first minute of one’s conversation and are free from then on. 'Over the eleven years of our existence, MOTIV has come

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by SberInvestBank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 181 days to 1 year went down by 11.9% (from 102.062 million RUR to 89.9 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by UralTransBank to natural persons for 31 to 90 days went down by 36.91% (from 1.769 million RUR to 1.116 million RUR) in January-October 2007.

Rus-Bank’s management declared the company acquired 98.42% of Ural Treasures Bank’s shares. According to Rus-Bank’s Marketing Director Dmitriy Yurzvaig, the bank has only entered the Urals relatively recently, so acquiring an important local player with a developed regional network looked like a good way of building up Rus-Bank’s share of the local market. Ural Treasures Bank held an EGM on October 8, 2007 in order to accept or reject a few BOD members’ resignation. A new Board of Directors was elected, and three Rus Bank representatives became BOD members, even though no serious bids were

'There is no road to Kruglykino either within 174 kilometers of Yekaterinburg or anywhere in Sverdlovsk Region. Our Chevrolet TrailBlazer ad that mentions Yekaterinburg only uses fictional images that were composed out of various photographs of bad roads,’ Olga Mescheryakova, an account manager of Leo Bernet Agency, Moscow, said to UrBC. Ms Mescheryakova believes this ad has no way of doing any harm to Sverdlovsk Region’s image, as the ad only features a remote country road and not a state highway. The negative image of the region has been used by General Motors to promote its new