Bank Severnaya Kazna’s Board of Directors decided to go through with the additional issue of 6,170,000 ordinary registered uncertified shares with face value of 10 RUR apiece, while the price of the shares was determined at 162.075 RUR per share. This share issue will probably be acquired by East Capital Explorer Financial Institutions Fund AB the day after the issue has been registered by the state. This information was provided by the bank in compliance with the demand that any issuer and/or a joint stock company must promptly reveal any data related to their activity that might influence

UralTransBank’s own funds went down by .9% in January 2008 and reached 1,675,587,000 RUR on February 1, 2008. These data are available from a report on the performance of the largest banks in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Tyumen Regions and Perm Territory in January 2008 to be found on Bank Severnaya Kazna’s official website.

According to the National Managers’ League’s official website, the share price of Az-Capital (the unit mixed investment trust run by Management Company) went down by 9.57% (from 1.60085 RUR to 1.44764 RUR per share) between December 29, 2007 and January 31, 2008.

'All the construction work done within the framework of preparations for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Yekaterinburg meets all the town planning and land code requirements. All the projects are subject to very strict control and expert assessment by both the regional and federal authorities. Only after the project has been approved of by the officials and experts and the land has been officially allotted for it, can the city’s construction authorities allow the building process to start,’ the spokesperson for the Mayor Konstantin Pudov reports. According to Mr.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Uralfinprombank to sole traders for 91 to 180 days went down by 15.18% (from 32.42 million RUR to 27.5 million RUR) in December 2007-January 2008.

'On February 21, 2008, the shareholders of Nizhniy Tagil Boiler and Radiator Unit Plant will start considering which candidate could be appointed the enterprise’s general director. Even the BOD members haven’t got all the personal data on these candidates yet, which is why it’s very surprising that the BOD member Boris Dyakonov claims he’s got evidence of one of the candidate’s (whose name is Pavel Vasilyev) incompetence,’ the plant’s Legal Issues Director Irina Sytnik says. The BOD meeting on the upcoming elections of the company’s GD took place on February 15, 2008, whereupon some

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations despite overdraft went down by 56.22% (from 276.459 million RUR to 121.033 million RUR) in December 2007-January 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Bank Uralsib to state-run for-profit organizations for 31 to 90 days went down by 95.12% (from 179 million RUR to 8.3 million RUR) in December 2007-January 2008.

According to Bankir.ru’s ranking of Russian banks as of January 1, 2008, SKB-Bank was one of the country’s largest banks in terms of deposits made by private individuals. In fact, the Bank achieved Russia’s 54th best result, as its natural person deposit portfolio reached 8.6 billion RUR on January 1, 2008, which is 10% better than in December 2007 and 40% better than a year earlier. These results allow SKB-Bank to be still featured in the Top 100 rating as well as remain one of Ural Federal District’s leaders in terms of natural person deposit portfolio. The bank raised the interest rates on

'There are currently eleven Auchan hypermarkets in Moscow that welcome the capital’s ten million dwellers as well as four or five million people from Moscow Region. This means there is one Auchan store for every 1.4 million people there. At the same time, there are only 1.3 million dwellers in Yekaterinburg, and 400,000 people from the nearby towns come to the city to do their shopping. In the meanwhile, the local population’s income is 1.5 times lower than in Moscow. All this boils down to the following: one Auchan store in Yekaterinburg is enough to maintain the optimal balance among