‘We believe that some agencies responsible for recruiting foreign workers, taking them to Russia, and providing them with the social safety net as well as all the necessary papers will be set up in Sverdlovsk Region soon. Such agencies are most likely to become private entities,’ Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Federal Migration Service’s Director for Immigration Control Alexander Biruykov reports. ‘The project is now considered by the State Duma and will probably be approved of soon,’ he adds.

‘We cannot provide any comments at the moment; no sales agreement has been signed so far, and I believe the whole thing might take up to a month to get through with,’ says Demidov Business Center’s press officer Oleg Zemtsov. In the meantime, Ural Mining & Metallurgical Company (UMMC) is rumored to have bought 50% of KlaasStroy’s shares (the latter being Demidov’s current developer). The business center’s representatives denied any chance of their signing a contract with UMMC as early as July 8, 2008. They claimed UMMC was not investing anything in the construction process and never

According to the National Managers’ League’s profitability ranking of unit investment trusts as of July 17, 2008, the share price of BCS Bank Share Fund (BrokerCreditService Management Company) has gone down by 24.99% since the beginning of the year.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service coordinated a meeting with executives from its territorial divisions devoted to the pricing policies of Russian airports’ fuel stations. The Service determined as early as the spring of 2008 that jet fuel prices were greater than most foreign airports asked for in a whole number of Russian regions. On June 1, 2008, the Service’s territorial divisions in twenty different parts of Russia were asked to check what airports had the greatest fuel prices and to take some antimonopoly measures before August 1, 2008. For one, two lawsuits, one involving LUKoil AERO and

Yekaterinburgnefteprodukt and LukoilPermnefteprodukt might have to pay 1% to 5% of their sales revenues in fines after Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Antimonopoly Service found them guilty of a price collusion and insisted on the two companies stopping their violations of the antimonopoly legislation. Both enterprises will have to face administrative lawsuits and pay a fine.

Your Way to the Future: this is the name of one of Visa Gold’s designs created especially for Visa International by Mariomi. This design won the first prize in the course of the high fashion week in Moscow, while the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development got the exclusive right over the design in the spring of 2008. ‘Bearing in mind that the image has a big part to play in the way premium bank cards are perceived and that the image is closely connected with design, we thought of changing our cards’ appearance completely. Design is as important as additional services, so it must be

‘We cannot provide any comments as to the construction process and the terms of commissioning Nakhimov Plaza at the moment. The company stopped working on this trade and office center,’ Aston Group’s PR Manager Polina Bulanova said to UrBC. ‘The management of the building and the sales of offices are currently being handled by Gormonolitstroy, the developer,’ she explained.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in UralFinPromBank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 38.46% (from 19.5 million RUR to 12 million RUR) in January-June 2008.

Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation nearly completed part of the contract it signed with Mikhailovskiy ore mining and processing enterprise. The contract provides for the construction of a roast machine facility needed for the enterprise’s pellet plant. Uralmash has to provide their customer with the process procedure description and the main designing solutions. The spokesperson for the corporation reports their experts are about to complete all the design documentation for the roast machine (the facility’s biggest and most complex unit) and the balling drums. These pieces of machinery are

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of private individuals’ deposits and other investments in Pervouralsk Joint Stock Commercial Bank valid for 31 to 90 days dropped by 50% (from 6.277 million RUR to 3.138 million RUR) in January-June 2008.