According to the Central Bank of Russia, 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-November 2007.

The Kommersant-Bank magazine came up with a rating of the CIS’ largest banks. The rating features banks located in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Byelorussia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia, Georgia, and Moldova and is based upon their activity over the last six months. According to the rating, most of the top two hundred positions have been filled by Russian banks, including twelve banks from the Urals (four of which are based in Sverdlovsk Region). SKB-Bank was able to improve its net assets rating by four positions and was thus rated 123d. The volume of SKB-Bank’s net assets

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by VUZ Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 31 to 90 days went down by 14.13% (from 96.08 million RUR to 82.506 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

Ural Airlines keeps selling more and more tickets online. E-tickets for two more flights (Yekaterinburg-Yerevan-Yekaterinburg flight 2949 and Yekaterinburg-Prague-Yekaterinburg flights 701 and 702) became available in November 2007. This means e-tickets are used for three of the carrier’s flights (including a flight to Dubai that has been using e-tickets since September 2007). Over 300 e-tickets are sold every month. The new technology is gradually being employed for flights bound for Moscow and Saint Petersburg; so far, e-tickets have been made available for the airline’s staff, but very

'Aviaprad’s stockholders suggested that we buy the company, so the carrier’s owners and Kras Air are now negotiating on the issue of acquiring a share in Aviaprad. We haven’t got any specific details to speak about yet,’ Kras Air’s press officer said to UrBC. At the same time, there have been media reports about the recent acquisition of Aviaprad’s shareholding by AiRUnion, of which Kras Air is a member.