Belaya Bashnya Invest Investment Company placed its insolvency application with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court. The date of the first hearing has not been set yet. The company’s license allowing it to perform brokerage and dealing operations and deal in securities management was annulled by the Federal Financial Market Service as early as September 2009. The decision was preceded by the company’s own application and the examination of some documents that proved Belaya Bashnya Invest had no failed liabilities. In fact, the company’s management declared a year ago that they were going to

Sverdlovsk Region Aviation Court is to look into the claim laid by Rosoboronexport Federal State Unitary Enterprise (the state defense agency) against Ural Civil Aviation Plant. The plaintiff insists on being paid 2.28 million RUR. According to the case materials, Rosoboronexport believes the plant should have paid the agency a 5% commission off all the contracts the defendant has signed regarding the repair and export of military air engines. During a preliminary court hearing, the plaintiff placed an application for raising its claims up to 2.51 million RUR. This request was sustained by

Yekaterinburg division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) carried out ten unscheduled inspections and administrative investigations and four scheduled inspections of nine travel agents in January-October 2009. The inspections were completed in cooperation with the public prosecution authorities for transportation after some complaints had been placed by the companies’ customers. Among the inspected companies were Kollektsiya Puteshestviy, Eldorado Tour Plus, Alfa-Travel, TBK Inturline, Severnaya Palmyra, TF Aeroluxe, Sezon Otpuskov, and Fond Mira Group. Rospotrebnadzor

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court will resume the hearing of the claim laid by Mikhail Maksimov against Leonid Itskov and Ural Innovational Commercial Bank (Uralincombank, UIC Bank) on December 2, 2009. The plaintiff insists on his right to a share in the bank’s authorized capital. Maksimov claims that this share should come to 12.5% of the bank’s shares, which amounts to about 5.3 million RUR. As it happens, the defendants did not provide any response to this claim in the course of the preliminary court hearing on November 19, 2009. The court also decided to get a number of strangers to

Bank24.ru (now the asset of Life Group’s Probusinessbank) is to reduce the interest rate on the customers’ account balance on December 6, 2009. The interest rate offered for the money the clients keep in the bank’s online and Visa accounts will come to 6% a year, which will be 2% lower than the previous figure of 8%. This is not the first time Bank24.ru has decreased the interest rates it offers for the account balance. The original offer came to as much as 11% a year.

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin attended the opening ceremony of a new multi-level road junction on a loop road next to Chelyabinsk. The Governor thanked all the builders who took part in the project and spoke very approvingly of the quality of their work. ‘This is a hi-tech piece of work that is very important for the region. It looks grand, beautiful, and very modern,’ Petr Sumin said. According to the spokesperson for the Governor, the junction was made available to the motorists as soon as the symbolic red ribbon had been cut. This junction belongs to Chelyabinsk orbital