Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin chaired a meeting of Ural Federal University Supervisory Board. The meeting was dedicated to the main directions of the university’s development in 2011-2012 and its educational, international, and financial activity. Rector of Ural Federal University Viktor Koksharov pointed out that getting as many students as possible was not the priority; the quality of teaching was. He explained there were some problems there: only 61% of faculty, in fact, have their PhDs, whereas the share of younger lecturers was rather meager. This is why the

SKB-Bank was awarded a special prize by one of its correspondent banks VTB Bank (Deutschland) AG in the Best Money Order Processing category. SKB-Bank has been handling money orders using an international SWIFT system since 1993. Certain fill-in formats are used for processing the payments, so if the formats are complied with, the orders are processed by a correspondent bank automatically, without an operator’s help. Automation of payment processing naturally makes the entire procedure much speedier, so as a result, the money orders get to their addressees much faster. At the moment, 98.15%

The officers of the Internal Affairs Department and Yekaterinburg Customs disclosed an illegal workshop that dealt in the production of fake branded goods on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg, the press service of Ural Customs Administration reports. Yekaterinburg Customs Intellectual Property Rights Protection Department officials and the officers of Yekaterinburg Consumer Market Offenses Department inspected a number of premises (owned by unidentified individuals) upon the request of the trademark owners Adidas AG and Adidas International Marketing B.V. Vlasta Consulting, Moscow. Some