According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Perviy Respublikanskiy Bank to non-state for-profit organizations despite overdraft dropped by 34.27% (from 40.702 million RUR to 26.751 million RUR) by January 1, 2009.

Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg looked into its achievements in January 2009. As it happens, the company has serviced 15.9% fewer passengers this January compared to January 2008, that is, 134,035 people altogether, of whom 42,314 people traveled internationally, 80,353 passengers used various domestic flights, and 11,368 people bought tickets for flights operated within the CIS. This was, respectively, 7.2%, 19.4%, and 16.3% less than a year earlier. In addition to rendering its services to passengers, the airport handled 665.86 tons of cargo and mail in January 2009 (which was 24.4% less

‘We cannot meet our deadlines with The Industrial Urals-The Polar Urals (a project on the industrial development of the Urals’ north) because some of the tasks laid out in the general plan have been skipped and some of them have been put off until later. We’ll only be able to use 80% of the federal budget subsidies, even though we did use of all the financing provided by the local budgets. This slowing down has to do with the fact that getting the licenses, drawing up the design documents, etc. was only completed way after the deadline,’ Alexei Melgunov (one of the department heads at A. P.

‘About 14,000 people are going to get released from Sverdlovsk Region’s prisons this year; most of these people got some rather long prison terms back in the mid-nineties. Setting free the people who had been sentenced for felonies and capital offenses en masse is bound to put the population’s safety in jeopardy. There are two kinds of convicts imprisoned in the nineties, actually, and each of the two kinds stands for specific kinds of risks,’ says Europe-Asia Information and Consulting Center’s GD Oleg Borisov ‘The first category comprises the members of organized crime groups. Some people

The Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Koltso Urala Commercial Bank to non-state for-profit organizations for 31 days to 90 days plummeted by 100% (from 13.332 million RUR to zero) by January 1, 2009.

The company’s third oxygen converter was launched at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ (MMK) LD plant recently. The machine was subjected to serious repairs at the end of October 2008, with MMK’s daughter enterprises dealing in electrical and mechanical repairs acting as the general contractors for the project. The mechanical improvements actually included replacing the converter’s carrying ring and its frame. By the end of January 2009, the overhaul had already been completed. As a matter of fact, the company’s second converter underwent similar upgrading last summer; this time, however,