‘This year has already seen a certain revival of the local automobile market. We haven’t got any shortage thanks to the company’s shipping volumes and working policies. However, it’s true of Yekaterinburg’s car market as a whole that there might be not enough expensive cars for customers to buy,’ OOO Mercedez Benz official dealer Delta Center’s Sales Manager Andrei Yurtanov said to UrBC. ‘The demand did go down a bit, even though we have regular customers and special policies. Our statistical data is based on incidental sales rather than a big customer flow, but, all in all, our sales volumes

‘We haven’t got any information regarding Alexei Kalinichenko’s extradition from Morocco yet. But we have been keeping a very close eye on the development of affairs,’ the spokesperson for Ural Federal District’s Department of Internal Affairs Main Administration told UrBC. Alexei Kalinichenko is suspected of setting up a pyramid scheme in Russia through a company called Global Gaming Expo. He is accused of stealing over 1 billion RUR from 4,000 Russian citizens. The businessman was earlier detained in Italy, so the Russian authorities insisted on is extradition. The Italian court ruled in

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin met Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Latvia to the Russian Federation Edgars Skuja. The two officials discussed the ways in which the two territories could cooperate. For one, they saw some good opportunities for machine-building development through joint small and medium ventures. Governor Misharin asked the region’s Minister for Trade, Food, and Services Dmitriy Nozhenko to find the way of working with the Latvian suppliers directly, without any intermediaries. He also said that UMMC Holding was a great

A customer of Bank24.ru was faced with a number of problems when trying to open and then to close a deposit through the bank’s e-system. The incident was described on one of Yekaterinburg’s popular forums. To start with, the bank took a very long time considering the customer’s application. In fact, it took the bank a week instead of the declared two days. Closing the deposit when its term expired was also a problem. The customer reports the bank was to have closed the deposit and to have paid the interest on February 2, 2010. However, this never happened. On February 3, 2010, the customer

The Russian Federation Ministry for Industry and Trade came up with the list of car makes that are liable to recycling under the new stimulus program. The program is expected to boost the sales of new cars through recycling the old ones. Every Russian citizen who recycles an automobile which is over ten years old is given a 50,000-ruble discount by a dealer in case he or she buys a car produced in Russia (and this has to be one of the cars on the list in question). The Russian Federation Government allocated over 11 billion RUR for the program implementation. The program is to be launched on