Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court keeps looking into the claim laid by Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg against VIM-AVIA Airline; the plaintiff wants to be paid 1.99 million RUR worth of debts and rent. In the course of the preliminary hearing, the court decided that the handling of the case should be postponed until the parties have tried to reach an out-of-court settlement. The court’s next hearing was scheduled for November 20, 2009.

The credit rating service called off Rusfinance Bank’s ratings upon the bank’s own request. Rusfinance Bank’s long- and short-term contractor’s ratings were preliminarily affirmed at BB+ and B, respectively, with Negative Rating Outlook. Also, the bank’s national scale rating was preliminarily affirmed at ruAA+, with Negative Rating Outlook.