The court is going to consider Koltsovo airport’s claim against Aviaprad on March 3, 2008. The decision to postpone the hearing was taken by the Judge of Sverdlovsk Region Court of Arbitration to give the parties a chance to work over and agree on the details of the case, the court’s press officer says.

'We experienced a software breakdown on February 22, 2008 and were thus unable to perform certain operations with the natural person accounts. For one thing, no new accounts could be opened; nor could our customers get any statements of their accounts, even though the balance was available from any ATM or office,’ the spokesperson for Alfa Bank’s Yekaterinburg branch Evgeniy Vladykin said to UrBC. 'All the problems were solved during the day, so our customers could be serviced properly again. As we never got a single complaint, I would think no psychological damage was done,’ the

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Bank24.ru to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 91 to 180 days went down by 40.96% (from 63.344 million RUR to 37.4 million RUR) in December 2007-January 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Uralprivatbank to sole traders for 181 days to 1 year went down by 11.32% (from 37.017 million RUR to 32.826 million RUR) in December 2007-January 2008.

The value of net assets of Energy – Mixed Investments (the unit investment trust) managed by Eurogreen Management Company Ltd. went down by .29% between February 21, 2008 and February 22, 2008. According to Eurogreen’s website, the company’s net assets decreased from 3,067,675.03 RUR on February 21, 2008 to 3,058,876.06 RUR on February 22, 2008.

Russian Copper Company inspired the creation of Russian Nickel Company - a new player on the nickel and cobalt production market. According to Russian Copper Company’s press officer, Russian Nickel Company consists of enterprises that possess licenses entitling them to development of cobalt and nickel deposits in Chelyabinsk Region and Altai Territory. The estimated volume of the known reserves comes to more than 440,000 tons of nickel, while the volume of the possible reserves reaches over 714,000 tons. This year, the company is to handle the basic design and start the construction of an ore

According to the National Managers’ League’s online data on unit investment trusts, the share price of Denezhkin Kamen (Investstroy Management Company) went down by 19.11% (from 1,125.25 RUR to 944.74 RUR) between December 29, 2007 and January 31, 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 181 days to 1 year went down by 17.84% (from 2,703,220,000 RUR to 2,220,958,000 RUR) in December 2007-January 2008

Over 400 strong drinks producers took part in the 10th International Tasting Contest held within the framework of ProdExpo 2008 exhibition. Many competing drinks were given gold, silver, and bronze medals, while the first prize was awarded to vodka produced by Khortytsa. This trademark entered the Russian market in 2006, and its sales have been soaring since. Apart from the first prize, the drink received over 200 awards at a number of respectable international competitions. ‘We were determined to become the market’s absolute leader in terms of quality when we first launched the production of

The solemn ceremony of laying of the foundation stone for the plant’s future LDP shop took place at Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant, the spokesperson for ChTPZ Group (which the plant is a part of) told UrBC. The event was attended by Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin, Chelyabinsk Region’s representative in the Soviet of the Federation A. Komarov, Mayor of Chelyabinsk M. Yurevitch, ChTPZ Group’s BOD Chairman A. Fedorov, and Vice President of SMS MEER, ChTPZ‘s German partner. The shop, meant for production of large diameter pipes (with the diameter of 508 mm to 1,420 mm) with both inner