Ural Airlines will now offer more flights from Yekaterinburg to Vnukovo Airport in Moscow to its customers. During the summer, this flight was only available once a week, every Friday. Starting October 14, 2010, the carrier’s planes will land in Vnukovo Airport three times a week: on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays. As a matter of fact, Ural Airlines is the only company to offer business class tickets on flights to Vnukovo.

The second tour of a special offer launched by VISA International is now closed. The offer, dubbed, ‘Try It – You’ll Like It’, means that eleven customers of METCOMBANK from Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Volgograd, and Kamensk-Uralskiy will receive 3,000 RUR each in the nearest future. The second tour of VISA’s prize-giving campaign was launched on July 1-August 31, 2010 and involved all the holders of METCOMBANK-issued cards who used their Visas to pay for products and services over the given time period. The amount of money spent was not a criterion.

A large exhibition facility will probably be put up in Sverdlovsk Region soon. The project is to be supervised by the Mid-Urals Development Corporation, Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Anatoly Gredin announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to the official, INEXPO exhibition center might stop operating as a result. ‘There is plenty of space available at 145 Gromov St, but we do not like the idea of holding large-scale exhibitions there. The place will most likely become an innovational technologies museum targeted at a young audience. We are planning to spend about 30

Analysts from Sverdlovsk Region Hygiene & Epidemiology Center’s Consumer Rights Protection Department looked into the customer complaints they had been getting throughout the third quarter of 2010. The experts came to the conclusion that local organizations repeatedly violated consumer rights over this time period, the center’s press officer reports. As far as the banking market is concerned, most customer complaints have to do with OOO Home Credit & Finance Bank, OOO KB Renaissance Capital, and OOO Rusfinance Bank.

The net profit of OAO Zapsibcombank went down by 27.89 million RUR, or 41.1% in the third quarter of 2010, that is, from 67.891 million RUR in the second quarter of the year down to 40.001 million RUR in the third quarter. ‘The 41.1% decrease in Zapsibcombank’s net profits between the second and the third quarters of 2010 resulted from the changes in the tax legislation that came into effect recently; namely, these changes involve a lower limit on the debt interest that can be accounted for in tax relief procedures. This means the bank had to pay more taxes in the third quarter of the year,’