Interfax-Center for Economic Analysis (Interfax-CEA) came up with a ranking of Russia’s best developing banks in the nine months of 2009. According to this ranking, MDM Bank proved one of the country’s fastest-growing credit organizations, the bank’s press officer reports. MDM Bank’s assets have increased by 81% since the beginning of the year; this has been the greatest figure among Russia’s Top 20 banks since January 2009. At the same time, the increase in the total assets of Russia’s 100 largest banks only amounted to .1% in the three quarters of 2009. MDM Bank was the first on the list of

The General Director of UralNITI Anatoly Sukhov was forced to accept an early resignation after his labor contract had been cancelled in the course of an extraordinary general meeting. Alexei Fefelov is going to become the enterprise’s new GD. As a matter of fact, Sukhov ran for General Director as well but failed to win enough votes.

‘Our sales of Opel cars are as smooth as ever, even though General Motors did decide not to sell its daughter enterprise after all. In fact, GM has been struggling with some problems of its own; one way or another, the company has got only one distributor delivering its cars to Russia. This distributor will certainly keep buying General Motors’ produce, so any customer can always place an order for the model he or she likes. All this talk of the government planning to impose sanctions on GM is just rubbish. Opel has been present on the Russian market since the nineties; it is a very strong

The net profit of AK BARS Bank went down by 297.25 million RUR, or 87.1%, that is, from 341.284 million RUR in the second quarter of 2009 down to 44.032 million RUR in the third quarter. The company says the decrease in net profit was brought about by the dropping loan income and the need to build up on the possible loan reserves. What is more, the net profit declined because the bank had to re-evaluate its foreign currency funds.

Kirill Shubin resigned from the position of Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport’s General Director before any decision to this extent has been taken by the company’s Board of Directors. It was reported on Friday that Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel appointed Mr. Shubin Director of the region’s State Order Department. Kirill Shubin was supposed to have resigned on December 4, 2009 in the course of the airport shareholders’ extraordinary general meeting; apparently, he chose not to wait for the date. Prior to his resignation, Kirill Shubin had been running the company since May

Head of Russian Federation Government Vladimir Putin signed a decree that officially pronounces Chelyabinsk Federal Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic a legal entity, Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin announced at a meeting with his deputies and the regional ministers. Sumin feels giving a legal status to the clinic is a very important thing that will help to handle issues like delivery and installation of medical equipment. The Governor had sent a letter to Vladimir Putin a few days earlier, asking for help in financing the equipment purchases. Chelyabinsk Region, on its part, has already

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin asked his officials to develop a set of additional measures that could help fight the flu generated by A/H1N1/ virus. Deputy Governor Evgeniy Redin reported at a recent meeting that two more people had died of this flu type over the weekend. A young man and a pregnant woman died of some viral pneumonia in Chelyabinsk and Nyazepetrovskiy district, respectively. All in all, four regional dwellers have been killed by the virus so far. Redin said this was not more than the seasonal flu mortality rate. Nevertheless, nine regional municipalities and four