Ural Airlines is introducing a new Yekaterinburg-Krasnoyarsk-Yekaterinburg flight. The carrier’s CEO Sergey Skuratov mentioned the airline’s plans to expand into Siberia and the Far East as early as the fall of 2008; in fact, creating a wider destination network is an important component of the airline’s development strategy for the next five years. Having built up on the number of aircraft, Ural Airlines is expected to win its market niche on Western Siberia and Amur Region’s civil aviation markets as well as to move on to China and launch new flights to South-East Asia (after a long haul

SKB-Bank’s private individuals’ deposits amounted to over 13 billion RUR in January 2009. The figure came to 11.97 billion RUR on December 31, 2008. ‘Our customers have deposited more than 1 billion RUR with the bank since New Year,’ the bank’s press officer reports. The bank’s Patriot deposit type is definitely the most popular one with customers, as the interest rate on this deposit comes to 16% a year during the first 100 days of the deposit period. What is more, UAZ Patriot, and off-road vehicle, will be awarded to one of the depositors in the course of a lottery drawing.

Bank Severnaya Kazna’s (now the asset of Alfa-Bank) six outlets are closing down in Sverdlovsk Region. These are the offices located at 84 Metallurgov St., 4 Scherbakov St., 149 Vosmoye Marta St., and 31 Lunacharskiy St. in Yekaterinburg and offices situated at 83a Kamenskaya St. in Kamensk-Uralskiy and 52g Trubnikov St. in Pervouralsk. All of these will stop operating between January 23, 2009 and February 6, 2009. The announcement to this extent was placed on the bank’s official website.