‘The officers of Yekaterinburg’s Leninskiy District division of Department of Internal Affairs did some drilling within the area right next to our bank’s premises on March 4, 2009. About forty people were involved in the procedure altogether, and it took them around thirty minutes to set the ‘hostages’ free,’ Security Director of Bank Société Générale Vostok’s Yekaterinburg branch Igor Kochegarov said to an UrBC reporter. Meanwhile, a great deal of local dwellers could see a group of militiamen accompanying a few handcuffed people into the car downtown on that same day. All this was happening

The value of Yekaterinburg Municipal Bank’s assets dropped by 14.42% in February 2009, that is, from 6.811 billion RUR on February 1, 2009 to 5.829 billion RUR on March 1, 2009.

Bank24.ru keeps oppressing its own customers through a number of unfriendly policies. For one, the bank’s new tariff schemes provide for a 10% fine in case a customer wants to cash their deposit in before the end of the deposit period. Since charging such a fee directly is actually illegitimate and violates the Russian Federation Civil Code, Bank24.ru appears to have found a way out by introducing a ‘hidden commission’. This means that upon signing a deposit agreement, a customer also has to sign an additional contract which states that, in case the customer chooses to get the money back

The value of Uralfinprombank’s assets went down by 900.068 million RUR, or 16.7%, that is, from 5,385,381,000 RUR on February 1, 2009 to 4,485,513,000 RUR on March 1, 2009. The issuer explains the decrease in asset value has to do with transferring the sums listed under last year’s Fiscal Effect rubric into the last year’s Profit one.

Bank Severnaya Kazna’s assets went down by 526.743 million RUR (from 36,039,329,000 RUR to 35,512,586,000 RUR) in February 2009. These data are available from TRUST’s Trust interactive: Russian banks report.