‘Deposit Clearing Company (DCC) is one of this company’s large nominee shareholders that takes part in RTS trading,’ says Accord Invest’s Deputy GD Konstantin Selyanin. The stock of ordinary shares of Urals Interregional Network Company (MRSK) owned by Deposit and Corporate Technologies has recently dropped from 100% to 51.51%, while DCC acquired a 31.7924% shareholding on May 26, 2008. ‘It’s obvious, though, that in this case it’s not DCC that owns these 31.7924% of MRSK’s shares, these are some other entities, probably the management or key stockholders of MRSK itself. At the same time, DCC

According to the Federal State Statistics Service’s regional division, Sverdlovsk Region’s industrial production index for the first four months of 2008 exceeded the figures for January-April 2007 by 7.1%, while the producer price index for commodity goods and the consumer price index went up by 14.1% and 7.5%, respectively, compared to a year earlier.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Khanty-Mansiyskiy Autonomous Bank to sole traders for 91 to 180 days decreased by 25.46% (from 32.779 million RUR to 24.433 million RUR) in January-April 2008.

‘Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation and Uralmash Drilling Equipment are two different enterprises. The latter is not Uralmashzavod’s legal representative and is not empowered to represent the plant on the drilling equipment market. This is why Uralmashzavod cannot be held responsible for Uralmash Drilling Equipment’s performance, its terms of delivery and the quality of its products,’ the spokesperson for Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation said to UrBC. ‘Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation was set up a year ago on the basis of two large enterprises: Uralmashzavod and ORMETO-YUMZ Heavy

The estimated value of share of BCS – Metallurgical Fund (the unit investment trust run by BCS Management Company) went down by 2.46%, dropping from 1,514.31 RUR on May 22, 2008 to 1,477.13 RUR on May 23, 2008. At the same time, the unit’s net assets decreased by 2.44%.

SKB-Bank’s Board of Directors decided to set up a number of representations in Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Ufa, Novokuznetsk, and Lipetsk.

Russian Transport 2008, the international forum, was held in Sochi on May 22-24, 2008. Ural Airlines’ General Director Sergey Skuratov took part in the event. The forum was dedicated to the country’s transport’s development directions, new transport projects, and analysis of current problems, the airline’s press officer reports. Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Evgeniy Bachurin said in the course of the forum that their branch was developing rather rapidly at the moment, despite certain problems and the need to introduce more domestic flights and upgrade the aircraft. The forum

The construction of Nakhimov Plaza, a trade and office center at 9 Vainer St. in Yekaterinburg may take longer than expected. According to the builder, that is, to Aston’s Chairman Vyacheslav Trapeznikov, the technical commissioning of the center was scheduled for June 2008. At the same time, the chairman admitted that the bearing carcass structure had been completed only two months before, the façade had been finished by 60%, and the interior finishing had barely started. And, according to the billboard next to the construction site, the original commissioning deadline was determined at the

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of private individuals’ demand deposits and investments in Tyumenenergobank dropped by 39.22% (from 69.603 million RUR to 42.299 million RUR) in January-April 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in VUZ Bank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 27.15% (from 486.882 million RUR to 354.651 million RUR) in January-April 2008.