Kinetika, the logistics company, became the Urals’ first business to get ISO 9001:2000 quality management system certificate for safekeeping and processing of cargo. The certification procedure was carried out by TÜV Rheinland Group’s Russian representation. ‘The certification was mainly targeted at officially proving to our customers that this company’s logistics services meet the highest international standards and that the quality of these services is both dependable and guaranteed. This isn’t just a fad, this is a sign of our system approach to business efficiency,’ the company’s GD

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Universal Bank to sole traders for 181 days to 1 year went down by 86.47% (from 13.3 million RUR to 1.8 million RUR) in January-March 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Tyumenenergobank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 31 to 90 days went down by 54.46% (from 1,200,921,000 RUR to 546,925,000 RUR) in January-March 2008.

Chairman of Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant Alexander Fedorov was declared the Environmentalist of The Year at the second All-Russian conference on the industrial bionomics and development of economic mechanisms of environmental protection. Mr. Fedorov was granted this honorary title for his considerable contribution to the development of conservational culture in Russia and his support of the environmental priorities of the country’s industrial enterprises. In addition, Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant was awarded with the European Quality Gold Medal in Russia’s 100 Best

Ural Airlines is to start operating an additional Moscow-Yekaterinburg flight on April 9, 2008. The plane leaves Domodedovo airport at 11.50 PM and arrives at Koltsovo airport in Yekaterinburg at 4 AM every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The airline operates six flights bound for Moscow and back daily. Special tariffs (with cheapest single tickets available for only 2,200 RUR, excluding the fuel fee) were offered to customers beginning from March 25, 2008, even though the number of seats is limited. U6-264, the Yekaterinburg-Moscow flight, leaves Koltsovo at 6.50 AM and arrives at

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by VUZ Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for up to 30 days plummeted by 100% (from 20.15 million RUR to zero) in January-March 2008.

RBC.Rating came up with the results of its last year’s research on the banking market aimed at finding the banks that were most successful in offering loans to private individuals. The agency’s analysts report, referring to the Central Bank of Russia, that the country’s banks provided individual customers with 3.6 trillion RUR worth of loans altogether in 2007, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 50.37%. The market growth can be explained by economic development and the population’s rising income, they say. SKB-Bank hit Russia’s Top 30 Largest Banks rating in terms of consumer

Ural Airlines and CFM International signed a contract for the delivery of fifteen CFM56-5B4/3 and CFM56-5B3/3 air engines for seven Airbus A 320 airplanes on April 3, 2004. The contract-signing ceremony was attended by Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Viktor Koksharov and Sverdlovsk Region’s Deputy Minister for Industry and Science Anatoly Gredin. The sum of the transaction is reported to come to about $125m. The preliminary agreement was signed in France last summer. The airline had to decide what time of aircraft to buy first, with the final price of an airplane depending on the

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Perviy Respublikanskiy Bank to for-profit SROs for 91 to 180 days went down by 8.09% (from 764.352 million RUR to 702.488 million RUR) in January-March 2008.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Uralprivatbank to state-run for-profit organizations for 1 to 3 years dropped by 27.27% (from 2.2 million RUR to 1.6 million RUR) in January-March 2008.