Bank Severnaya Kazna reports that no interest will be paid on the settlement account balance beginning from December 18, 2008.

Ural Airlines is going to reduce the fuel fees for a number of international flights on January 11, 2009. For one, fees will go down for Yekaterinburg-Munich, Yekaterinburg-Paris, and Yekaterinburg-Prague flights. The fees for Yekaterinburg-Munich and Yekaterinburg-Paris flights will be halved and will thus come to only ?50. The fee for the Prague-bound flight will go down by ?25 and will thus amount to ?45. This isn’t the first time the airline has reduced its fuel fees, actually. In addition to the latest discounts, Ural Airlines kept decreasing the fuel fees for its chartered flights,

Webscan Technologies published the findings of its research on the brands most frequently referred to or mentioned in the Web’s Russian-speaking segment. According to the company’s data, allusions to 960 banks located in sixty different countries were tracked on over 3,700 online newswires, while the Top 100 most frequently mentioned banks’ rating was compiled on the basis of data supplied by Webscan N&P between January 1, 2008 and November 30, 2008. The rating carried the names of large foreign and federal banks as well as a number of provincial ones, with SKB-Bank getting the 48th

Fitch и Moody's report URSA Bank’s Rating Outlooks have been promoted due to the stockholders’ decision to unite in a holding with MDM-Bank, the bank’s press officer reports. Fitch affirmed the bank’s short-term Issuer Default Rating at B+ and gave it a Rating Watch Positive. The agency reports the proposed merger will enable the two banks to build up on their strengths in the business and retail market segments as well as to open up a whole range of brand new advantages through expanded customer base, greater size, and more pronounced risk diversification. Moody's has also affirmed

Deposit Insurance Agency, the state corporation, reports a general agreement has been signed by the agency, Bank24.ru, and Probusinessbank regarding the terms and the order of the three parties’ interaction in the course of Bank24.ru’s financial recovery. The agreement states that Probusinessbank, the investor, is to buy enough shares of Bank24.ru to be able to do the necessary decision-making. At the same time, the investor is to fully meet its obligations as to Bank24.ru’s financial recovery and thus to restore the bank’s financial development indicators to the level required by the Bank of