UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2010. 'The video clip which featured foxes running down the city streets was quite good, but in didn’t really do any good to the company it was supposed to promote. I feel this particular ad campaign is a classic example of the admen getting creative for the sake of getting creative, and nothing else. Sadly, this happens quite often when the admen focus on the creative aspects so much that they go out of their way to come up with something breath-taking but entirely forget about the customers’ interests in the process. They don’t stop to think, ‘Will this

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2010. A number of Sverdlovsk Region’s government officials met the experts of Standard & Poor's International Services, Inc. Moscow representation. In the course of the meeting, the officials’ reports on the region’s economic and financial situation were considered and discussed, the regional Ministry for Economics reports. This meeting is expected to influence the rating agency’s policy regarding the possible changes in Sverdlovsk Region’s credit rating that is currently set at BB, with Stable rating outlook.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2010. ‘The clients who paid for an advertising campaign which features foxes are more likely to sustain losses than make a profit,’ Director of Public Relations Development & Modernization Institute Evgeny Potapov told UrBC. In fact, the ad campaign in question, which was launched in Yekaterinburg recently, turned out to be an act of manipulation. It was reported in the media at the end of December that some foxes were spotted in downtown Yekaterinburg; this news was actually the beginning of an advertising campaign organized to promote ZAO Uralbroiler. As

UrBC, Moscow, December 7, 2010. Alfa-Bank’s outlet in Krasnodar had to block 7,000 bank cards because their PINs had been stolen, RIA Novosti refers to the bank as saying. The cards were allegedly compromised through one of Krasnodar-based banks’ ATM network. ‘The bank decided to block the cards to protect its customers’ interests, since their PIN-codes were probably made known to some swindlers. This means we managed to prevent a large-scale money-stealing attempt,’ Alfa-Bank reports. All the cards which have been thus compromised will be replaced free of charge.

UrBC, Moscow, December 7, 2010. Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service ruled that the agreement signed by OOO Rexam Beverage Can Naro-Fominsk and OAO Baltika Beer Brewery is actually anti-competitive and violates Article 11 (part 2) of the Competition Protection Act. The violation consisted in that the agreement, signed in 2006, determined certain terms of handling one-liter aluminum cans. According to the Service, the agreement in question limited the other beer producers’ right to package its produce in one-liter aluminum cans, which, in its turn, limited the customers’ choice of beer