Central Bank of Russia reports volume of demand deposits and other demand investments made by private individuals in UIC Bank went down by 27.74% (from 27.758 million RUR to 20.058 million RUR) in December 2007-January 2008.

'Most foreign workers come to Sverdlovsk Region from Tajikistan (28%), Kazakhstan (18%), China (16%), Kyrgyzstan (13%), and Turkey (5%). They are mainly employed in fields like the building industry and the service sector (including catering business and motor shows),’ Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Migration Service Sergey Kashinin announced at a press conference on February 28, 2008. 'We don’t expect the number of illegal immigrants to soar dramatically this year, since the measures we’ve taken are believed to be able to keep these figures at last

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of demand deposits and other demand investments made by private individuals in Plato Bank went down by 23.29% (from 1.747 million RUR to 1.34 million RUR) in December 2007-January 2008.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in SberInvestBank valid for 181 days to 1 year plummeted by 100% (from 600,000 RUR to zero) in December 2007-January 2008.

Maxi Group elected the new General Director after the company’s Board of Directors decided to terminate the authority of former GD Alexander Loginovskikh and elected Valery Shevelev instead. Remarkably, Mr. Shevelev hasn’t got a share in the enterprise’s authorized capital.

The Minister for International and Foreign Economic Relations of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Kharlov announced in the course of the ministry meeting that the region had received over $1.338bn worth of foreign investment altogether in 2007, which was comparable with the previous year’s level. However, the structure of these investments proved to be much better than before. Direct foreign investments, for instance, amounted to $119m, which exceeds the figures for 2006 by thirty times. Besides, this was the region’s best-ever result since 2001 when the figure came to $103m and then kept going

MOTIV, formerly one of Sverdlovsk Region’s telecommunications provider, expanded to become a telecommunications group operating in both Ural Federal District and Perm Territory at the end of 2007. Now the company offers its customers mobile communication as well as area and landline connection and Internet access. In addition, MOTIV now provides people living in Perm Territory with landline telephone connection, the company’s press officer reports. This impressive expansion in terms of both geography and technology was made possible due to a major restructuring. For one, the new

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Perviy Respublikanskiy Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 31 to 90 days went down by 28.21% (from 290.281 million RUR to 208.4 million RUR) in December 2007-January 2008.

'We are having a hard time with some consumer electronics producers due to the recent amendments to the federal law on competition,’ Centri Maintenance Center’s Technical Director Leonid Khavroshin said to UrBC. The amendments came into force on December 12, 2007 and now give a customer the right to complain about the quality of a product not only to the producer and the seller but to the importer as well, who is now responsible for the quality of the product, too. According to Yekaterinburg Consumer Rights Committee Chairman Andrei Artemiev, it is usually the seller that the

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Tyumenenergobank to sole traders despite overdraft went down by 26.85% (from 4.283 million RUR to 3.132 million RUR) in December 2007-January 2008.