The region’s environmental committee’s latest meeting was dedicated to looking into the town of Krasnouralsk’s conservational agenda and the environmental program of Svyatogor, the town’s major polluter. The meeting was chaired by Sverdlovsk Region’s First Deputy Minister of Economics and Labor Vitaly Nedelskiy and Sverdlovsk Region’s First Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Galina Pakhalchak. Svyatogor is actually responsible for dumping over 97% of all pollutants the town is suffering from, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, lead, arsenic and its compounds. The enterprise’s

‘The Magnificent Seven, our latest deposit offer, is a complex and hi-tech product. It took our experts, accountants, and IT specialists all their capacity and creative potential to develop the product. Combining the daily capitalization of interest, the topping up option, and the increase in the interest rate depending on the growing amount of money in the deposit account was no easy thing. Some of our employees have actually ended up with a bit of grey hair on their heads, but the bank managed to launch this deposit at the end of the day,’ says URSA Bank’s Ural branch’s Vice President

Ural Airlines reports the company is going to fly its millionth passenger in 2008 on August 29, 2008. This will probably be someone on the company’s 8.20 AM Yekaterinburg-Moscow flight or 9.30 AM Yekaterinburg-Sochi flight. The lucky passenger will get a nice present as usual, the airline’s press office reports. Remarkably, the carrier is to welcome its millionth passenger of the year two months earlier compared to the year 2007. ‘This has to do with the greater number of aircraft we operate now. Ural Airlines is now using some Russian aircraft as well as five modern and comfortable A 320

A group of delegates from Sverdlovsk Region is going to visit the 50th international machine-building fair and the 6th machinery and tools exhibition (known as MSV and IMT, respectively) in the Czech Republic, says the spokesperson for the region’s Ministry of Industry, Power Engineering, and Science. The news was initially announced in the course of acting Minister of Industry, Power Engineering, and Science Yuri Zibarev’s meeting with the local ministries and industrial unions representatives. The fair has been scheduled for September 15-19, 2008. This year, the region’s delegation will

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of private individuals’ deposits in UralFinPromBank valid for 91 to 180 days dropped by 31.71% (from 61.116 million RUR to 41.763 million RUR) in January-July 2008.

Sberbank of Russia’s Ural branch’s advances portfolio consisting of loans offered for private plot development came to more than 1 billion RUR this summer. The bank offered its customers over 1,600 such loans worth 310 million RUR in January-July 2008, the bank’s press officer reports. This special loan offer was first launched by Sberbank in 2006 as part of the national agricultural development project. The offer’s primary advantage lies in the possibility of getting budgetary subsidies to pay a part of the interest on the loan. ‘Taking a loan from a bank makes a farmer’s work more

The local dwellers have to wait for up to four months rather that the legitimate thirty days to get their foreign passports done, Ordzhonikidzevskiy district’s division of the Federal Migration Service Administration in Sverdlovsk Region said to an UrBC reporter. Apparently, it did not help that Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities grew alarmed as early as July 2008 and claimed the regional division of the Federal Migration Service kept violating the citizens’ right to a foreign passport. The prosecution authorities then insisted on eliminating the offense and prosecuting the

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 64.28% (from 140 million RUR to 50 million RUR) in January-July 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in VUZ-Bank valid for 91 to 180 days plummeted by 100% (from 1.2 million RUR to zero) in January-July 2008.

‘A multi-faceted area development project is something we should have come up with a long time ago. The sporadic housing construction problems large cities are struggling with are all rooted in failing to switch to the multi-faceted area development principle in time. We could have avoided quite a few complications if we had not kept overwhelming the Soviet-time engineering infrastructure with so many new buildings,’ First Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and Minister of Economics and Labor Mikhail Maximov announced in the course of a press conference in Yekaterinburg.