‘The legal action against Severouralsk Bauxite Mine (SUBR) hasn’t been going very smoothly so far. I am not satisfied with the professionalism of our judge, which is why I decided not to come to the hearings so as to keep the application officially unconsidered. This means I will be able to place another application and have my case handled by a different judge,’ Chairman of UC RUSAL SUBR’s independent trade union of miners Valeriy Zolotarev said to UrBC reporters. Meanwhile, Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court keeps looking into the claim laid by Russia’s Independent Trade Union of Miners’

A solemn opening ceremony of SKB-Bank’s new office in Cherkessk took place on November 27, 2009. The ceremony was attended by President of Karachayevo-Cherkess Republic Boris Ebzeyev. As a matter of fact, SKB-Bank set up an outlet in Cherkessk as early as three years ago, but the office used to operate as a representation only and couldn’t serve anyone except for businesses. Now SKB-Bank’s office works as a universal bank offering a full range of banking services to both private individuals and legal entities. ‘The locals are quite familiar with our bank already. They will be happy to become

Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank (SGB) recently proved the Urals’ leading bank in terms of private individuals’ deposits growth. The bank actually topped the regional rating for Russian banks in January-September 2009 published by Bankir.ru The volume of private individuals’ deposits amounted to more than 9 billion RUR on October 1, 2009. This means the figure has gone up by 70% since the beginning of the year, thus making SGB Ural Region’s No.1 in this respect. This incredible increase in the private individuals’ deposit volume has secured the bank the 66th position in the country-wide rating as

Governor of Yaroslavl Region Sergey Vakhrukov and President of RENOVA-StroyGroup Veniamin Golubitskiy recently signed an agreement of intent regarding a multi-faceted area development project. The project is expected to speed up the construction of a new district in Yaroslavl called Yabloneviy Posad. The project provides for multi-faceted development of the city’s Dzerzhinskiy area, with putting up a number of apartment buildings, a set of town houses, and some buildings pertaining to the social infrastructure. The new district will meet all the standards of a modern, comfortable, and safe

‘The opening of Greenwich Shopping Center’s third extension will only take place on December 17, 2009. This is the final and unchangeable date. The earlier dates that we had set for November 2009 had to be positponed due to unfinished construction process,’ Director of Greenwich Shopping Center Dmitriy Sarapultsev said to UrBC. In fact, the opening date was first set for November 1, 2009 and then for November 26, 2009. The new extension’s area comes to 101,000 sq m; this, added to the existing 53,000 sq m of the older buildings, will give Greenwich Shopping Center a total area of 154,000 sq m.