‘The foods delivered to Russia by Valio, a Finnish company, raise increasingly more concerns from Rospotrebnadzor,’ RIA Novosti quotes head of the state consumer rights watchdog Gennady Onischenko as saying. ‘The melted cheese packs imported from Finland by Valio, a company that is associated with the market economy and good quality in Russia, unfortunately come to look more and more suspicious,’ Onischenko said. The executive explained the worries had to do with the use of some exotic oils in the production of the cheese in question; he did not specify what specific problems this implied,

Each and every of OAO SKB-Bank’s offices renders a full range of services to private individuals, so one can open a bank account there, take out a loan, get a money order or make various kinds of payments. The latter service is particularly popular with the bank’s customers, as over 1 million housing bills have been paid through SKB-Bank since the beginning of the year,’ the bank’s press service reports. In addition to housing bills, the bank’s outlets accept and handle mobile and landline phone bills, Internet fees, security service and door phone payments, tuition fees, road fines and much

Travelers from the Urals will try to be more careful in Egypt rather than to give up on the idea of going altogether. All the tours to Egypt have already been booked, and not a single customer has asked for their money back so far. After all, there are a lot of unpleasant things that can happen to you in Sharm El Sheikh, for example, jellyfish stings. One should always watch out and keep safe. Then, unlike, say, Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh is a developing city, with new hotels and restaurants opening all the time. This is a very appealing factor for tourists,’ Director of OOO Inna-Tour Inna

The National Call Center Association did a research aimed at identifying the best call centers among Russia’s eighty largest banks and insurance companies recently. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Information & Help Center was rated one of the country’s Top 10 call centers within the framework of this research. ‘The call center operators’ primary task is to provide the bank’s customers with information on the bank’s activity quickly and in all the detail; they also have to give a full account of the bank’s services. In case a customer has questions related to some

TNK-BP placed a petition on buying Koltsovo Airport’s filling station with Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service. The airport reports they need to sell the station in order to make the regional jet fuel market more liberal; the transaction sum has not been announced yet, Kommersant reports. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin announced a few days ago that the airport’s fuel filling station (a part of which belongs to the regional government) might be sold to an outside organization. The Governor explained several stations owned by different proprietors were needed at the airport