According to the National Managers’ League’s profitability ranking of March 18, 2008, the share price of BCS Oil Fund (BrokerCreditService Management Company) has gone down by 11.78% since the beginning of 2008.

Ural Airlines improved on its ticket delivery service by starting to deliver them daily, from 9 AM to 11 PM. If you book between 9 AM and 6 PM, your tickets will be delivered on the same day; if you book later than 6 PM, you can get the ticket the next day or any other day you like, the carrier’s press officer reports. The cost of the delivery comes to 150 RUR, regardless of how many tickets you book and what flights these tickets are for. You can pay either in cash or by credit card. Tickets can be booked at delivery can be ordered at and more information about the service is available at

Ural Treasures Bank decreased the interest rate and the incidental commission on its Express Cash loan scheme. These will be lowered by 1% on March 20-31, 2008. Besides, one won’t need any income statement, however much one would like to borrow from the bank. The other terms of credit are to remain the same.

‘We’ve come up with a new advertising framework this year, so we are going to use some new characters in our ads now,’ says SKB-Bank’s Chairman Vladimir Pukhov. ‘We are through with the old ladies we used to have in our commercials, however sad it makes us feel. The bank’s new ad strategy will rely on the Soviet-style posters,’ he notes. ‘This new campaign’s logic is quite simple: not all things were bad during the Soviet times, there were some positive moments, too, and there are plenty of people who have some sort of nostalgia for those days. Besides, some seemingly bygone elements of the

Sberbank of Russia re-introduced a freshly redecorated office in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region. The office is located at 21 Voroshilov St. Customers (mostly private individuals rather than businesses) coming to this outlet can take advantage of the whole range of quality banking services, including various loans, deposit operations, exchange of currency, operations with bank cards, money orders, payment of housing bills, and much else besides. Deputy CEO of Sberbank’s Magnitogorsk branch Yuri Emelyanov announced in the course of the solemn opening ceremony that expanding the bank’s

MOTIV, the telecommunications group, is about to launch one of its newest services known as Private Virtual Network – a sort of intranet that will provide geographically extended companies with some reliable and safe communication, MOTIV’s press officer reports. Virtual Private Network is based on the Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology that is most efficient in terms of traffic transfer compared with its existing counterparts. VPN can be flexible and multifunctional, as customers can choose among the many options of IP traffic transfer with differing service classes. The network

‘The major problem today’s economic security market is faced with is habitual stereotypes. A business normally has some economic security services to protect it. A company is used to these services, but is incapable of evaluating the quality of the job they do: the larger a business is, the more intricate the job is. To assess the services’ performance, one has to have a lot of expertise in the field,’ Oleg Borisov, the General Director of Europe-Asia, the information and consulting center, said to UrBC. ‘On the other hand, this expertise is not something that universal auditors may

United Company RUSAL bought a cathode plant in the People’s Republic of China, the company’s press officer said to UrBC. The plant’s capacity comes to 9,300 tons of cathode stacks a year at the moment, but RUSAL is hoping to raise the cathode output to 20,900 tons by 2010. This project will require more than $20m in terms of investments. The plant is situated within 600 kilometers of Beijing and was originally put up in 2001. The enterprise specializes in cathode stack production (these stacks being one of the elements of an electrolysis bath needed for aluminum production) and has become

The value of net assets of Energy – Mixed Investments (the unit investment trust) managed by Eurogreen Management Company Ltd. went down by 3.2% between March 14, 2008 and March 17, 2008. According to Eurogreen’s website, the company’s net assets decreased from 2,964,941.13 RUR on March 14, 2008 to 2,870,044.53 RUR on March 17, 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Khanty-Mansiyskiy Bank to state-run for-profit organizations despite overdraft went down by 81.25% (from 54.608 million RUR to 10.239 million RUR) between January 1, 2008 and February 1, 2008.