The solemn opening ceremony of Yemelino substation took place in Sverdlovsk Region. Located within seventy kilometers of Yekaterinburg in Nizhneserginskiy district, the new power substation is to provide electricity to the parts of the region that experience the greatest shortage of it, such as industrial enterprises based in Pervouralsk, Revda, Polevskoy, and Yekaterinburg, including a new steel-smelting complex at Severskiy Pipe Works and Nizhneserginskiy Hardware Plant. In addition, Yemelino is expected to take part of the workload off Yuzhnaya substation that currently provides most of

Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan Rafael Baidavletov quit Bank UralSib’s Supervisory Board. The decision was taken after the bank’s extraordinary general meeting.

Head of Ural Electronic Plant Ltd Stanislav Tkhai is going to become Korea’s honorary consul in Yekaterinburg. The consul of the Republic of Korea in Russia, who arrived in Yekaterinburg on business, all the procedures have been finalized, so the only thing needed for Mr. Tkhai’s appointment now is the permission of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The honorary consulate is expected to start operating in Yekaterinburg at the beginning of 2008. In the meantime, the premises of Ural Electronic Plant were searched in December 2007. 'We had to search the premises of Ural Electronic

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of natural persons’ deposits and other investments in Ural Innovational Commercial Bank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 11.06% (from 195.221 million RUR to 173.619 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

Sverdlovsk Region Government Environment and Nature Management Committee held a meeting where the attendees looked into how effectively Sredneuralsky Steel-Smelting Plant was complying with the plan to cut down on the amount of harmful atmospheric emissions. The committee reports that even though some efforts have obviously been made, the plant still keeps violating the existing environmental regulations. The plant does not stick to the maximum permissible discharge of sulphur dioxide, ferrous oxide, led and its compounds, copper oxide, sulphuric acid (the maximum permissible discharge was

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of natural persons’ deposits and other investments in UralTransBank valid for 91 to 180 days went down by 95.32% (from 124.077 million RUR to 5.808 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of natural persons’ deposits and other investments in SberInvestBank valid for 31 to 90 days went down by 92% (from 1.988 million RUR to 159,000 RUR) in January-November 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports Volume of nongovernmental financial organizations’ deposits in VUZ Bank valid for 1 to 3 years went down by 97.45% (from 38.5 million RUR to 980,000 RUR) in January-November 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of nongovernmental financial organizations’ deposits in Bank UralSib valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 48.67% (from 1,859,112,000 RUR to 954,345,000 RUR) in January-November 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of nongovernmental financial organizations’ deposits in Tyumenenergobank valid for 91 to 180 days went down by 100% (from 85 million RUR to zero) in January-November 2007.