Ural Customs Administration was able to transfer 4.6 billion RUR to the federal budget in February 2008, which is 19.1% better than the originally planned figures for the month, the Administration’s press officer reports. The Administration collected a total of 8.2 billion RUR for the state budget in the first two months of 2008, which means that the original target figures were exceeded by 24%.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by SberInvestBank to non-profit NGOs for over 3 years went down by 8.75% (from 24 million RUR to 21.9 million RUR) in January-February 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Bank Uralfinance to sole traders for 181 days to 1 year went down by 38.98% (from 6.269 million RUR to 3.825 million RUR) in January-February 2008.

RBC.Rating has recently come up with its newest research on Russia’s banking market that proves the country’s banks still have a lot of developmental potential despite the external markets’ crises. What is more, Russia’s largest banks managed to grow impressively in almost all the possible fields. The net assets of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development, for instance, rose by 44.31% in 2007 and reached 37,817.5 million RUR on January 1, 2008. This is the 63d best result among all the Russian banks and the best result in Sverdlovsk Region. The bank’s quick assets increased by 85.17%.

The value of UralSib Management Company’s net assets went down by .17%, dropping from 957,423,671.41 RUR on March 4, 2008 to 955,805,135.1 RUR on March 5, 2008. This information was published 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 the company’s stock price.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Perviy Respublikanskiy Bank to self-regulatory financial organizations for 31 to 90 days plummeted by 100% (from 3.077 million RUR to zero) in January-February 2008.

Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service made Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg pay a fine of 13,041,093 RUR for administrative offenses. The Service declared on December 4, 2007 that the airport, as well as RusAviaJet and Aviaprad, violated the federal law on the protection of competition (Article 11, Part 1, points 3 and 6). The offense consisted in the three parties’ collusion, so the Service insisted that this violation must be removed. The companies in question agreed that some mineral and oil products would be stored by them in July 2006-November 2007; as a

Evraz Group coordinated an IT international conference in Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, on March 4-6, 2008. This was the first time for the conference to be held in this town, with more than 120 participants from thirty-four Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, American, and South African enterprises arriving to take part in the event. Apart from nearly all of Evraz Group’s members, the conference was attended by such global IT giants as Microsoft, IBM, Xerox, Oracle, Siemens, and some others, the spokesperson for Evraz Group said to UrBC. The agenda of the conference mainly covered presentations

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by VUZ Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for up to 30 days dropped by 97.02% (from 20.15 million RUR to 600,000 RUR) in January-February 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by UIC Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for up to 30 days plummeted by 100% (from 6.8 million RUR to zero) in January-February 2008.