Bank Severnaya Kazna (the asset of OAO Alfa-Bank) has been found guilty of an administrative offense recently. Ural Federal District’s division of the Federal Financial Market Service declared that the bank must pay a 500,000-ruble fine. According to the Service, the bank failed to comply in due time with the orders issued by the federal executive authorities regarding its stock market activity.

The volume of deposits opened by private, for-profit organizations at Uralfinance Commercial Bank for 91 to 180 days more than halved in February 2010 and thus went down from 30.7 million RUR on February 1, 2010 to 15.02 million RUR on March 1, 2010. These data are available from the bank’s report placed on the Central Bank of Russia’s official website. In addition, the deposits of profit-making organizations opened for 1 to 3 years plunged by 100%; the figures decreased from 1.792 million RUR on February 1, 2010 to 0 RUR on March 1, 2010.

A twenty-two-year-old mine worker was killed in UC RUSAL Severouralsk bauxite mine’s Cheremukhovskaya mine. RUSAL’s representative in Ural Federal District Roman Lukichev says the worker was smashed by an electric locomotive under unclear circumstances. The causes of the accident are to be investigated by an ad hoc committee consisting of Rostechnadzor representatives and UC RUSAL experts.

The volume of loans offered by ZAO Uralprivatbank to private individuals for 91 to 180 days went down by 100% in February 2010. The figures dropped from 142,000 RUR on February 1, 2010 to 0 RUR on March 1, 2010. These data are available from the bank’s report placed on the Central Bank of Russia’s official website.

The latest meeting of the regional committee on government support to local businesses was devoted to the efforts currently made by OAO VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation and OAO SUAL (BAZ-SUAL’s subsidiary) to increase their tax payments to Sverdlovsk Region’s consolidated budget. The meeting was chaired by Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Anatoly Gredin. It was observed that VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation was trying to cut down on its indispensable payments. Even though the sales revenues only went down a little, the company’s net profit decreased by 3.2 times, which affected the amount of tax due to