According to the statistics for January-September 2009, Yekaterinburg is Russia’s third largest foreign cars market, with 25,610 foreign vehicles sold in these nine months. This figure was only beaten by Moscow and Saint Petersburg, AVTOSTAT agency says in its monthly report on the country’s automobile market. All in all, the sales of foreign cars in Yekaterinburg decreased by nearly 60% in January-September 2009 compared to January-September 2008. Chevrolet, whose share of the local foreign cars market came to 13.4%, was Yekaterinburg’s No.1 bestseller, while Toyota’s share dropped from

2,700 flights operated by Russian airlines were delayed by over two hours between July 3, 2009 and November 20, 2009. In 1,184 cases, it was the carrier’s fault, Rosaviation reports. The top five companies whose flights were delayed most often were Siberia, with its 136 delayed flights, Transaero, with its 97 delayed flights, Vladivostok Avia, with its 74 delayed flights, Sky Express, with its 61 delayed flights, and Utair, with its 60 delayed flights. Aeroflot was actually given the seventh position on this list. All in all, Russian carriers were responsible for the delay of 1,500 flights in

The network electricity supplier announced the results of its performance in 2008; the report was compiled in accordance with the International Accounting Standards. According to this report, the company’s revenues came to 41,593.4 million RUR in 2008, which was 9.4% better than in 2007. The expenses amounted to 40,239.8 million RUR last year, which was 13.1% more than in 2007. MRSK Urala made 1,356.2 million RUR in terms of sales profit in 2008. This figure was actually 44.8% lower than the one reached in 2007. The company’s profitability index in this respect was thus registered at 3.3%.

Former BOD Chairman of Bank Severnaya Kazna (now belonging to Alfa-Bank) Vladimir Frolov became the BOD Chairman of URAN Commercial Bank. The news has been announced via the company’s official website. In fact, UrBC maintained as early as September 2009 that Frolov was going to use URAN to start up a new financial project; this claim has therefore been officially proved now. The Board of Directors now comprises seven members, including Andrei V. Frolov. Ural Commercial Bank was set up in February 1992 in Sorochinsk, Orenburg Region. In January 2005, the bank became a member of the obligatory

Russia’s Federal Financial Market Service turned down Yekaterinburg-based Uralfinance Commercial Bank’s application for a dealing operations license on November 25, 2009.