‘Since the financial crisis broke out, we had to decrease the amount of loans offered to private entities. The reasons for this are obvious: the back payment just cannot be guaranteed. Unfortunately, it is not always possible at the moment to calculate whether a certain company is able of paying the loan off in due time. This does not mean, however, that we stopped offering loans to businesses altogether. Quite on the contrary, we are still prepared to meet our credit-solvent customers’ needs in full. All the strategic partners the bank has developed a long-term financial relationship with

Ural Airlines came up with results of their special offer targeted at customers who paid for their airplane tickets using Yandex.Money system. According to the terms of the offer, every tenth customer who used the system would be entitled to free Internet connection and cable TV hookup as well as three months of prepaid cable TV viewing and Internet traffic (provided by Stream Yekaterinburg). The first prize-awarding ceremony took place in November, the second one in December 2008. The second time, prizes were given to Denis Anferov, Andrey Korskanov, Ian Kasimov, Yuri Spiridonov, Andrey

Sverdlovsk Region Court of Arbitration is to appoint CIT Capital’s trustee in bankruptcy and to decide on the terms of the company’s bankruptcy proceedings on January 16, 2009 The court declared CIT Capital insolvent on December 27, 2008 after the debtor placed an application with the court explaining the sum of their liabilities came to more than 3.982 billion RUR and that they owed their creditors 16.708 million RUR worth of compulsory payments. What is more, 42.343 million RUR worth of claims laid against CIT Capital had been placed with numerous courts of general jurisdiction and

Sberbank’s Ural branch in Kurgan gave out prizes to the winners of the bank’s special offer lottery called ‘Time to Shop with Sberbank of Russia’. All of the bank’s cardholders who used those to pay for at least 300 RUR worth of shopping or services by their bank card in September and October 2008 were automatically placed on the potential prize-winners list. At the end of the offer, 200 customers of Sberbank’s Ural branch in Kurgan received 300 RUR in their bank card accounts. ‘Andrey Popov was definitely the most frequent bank card user, as he paid for over fifty purchases by his card.

Koltsovo Airport’s latest extraordinary general meeting resulted in the election of a new Board of Directors consisting of nine people. These are: Dmitriy Logunov, Ekaterina Lyakhova, Alexander Misharin, Evgeniy Olkhovik, Anatoly Pchelin, Vladimir Tasun, Nikolai Ulyanov, Evgeniy Chudnovskiy, and Andrey Shtorkh. Apart from electing the new BOD, the stockholders refused to approve of the joint stock company’s new Charter.