The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development set up a web page with Google+, the new social network provided by the world’s best-known search engine. The address, now hosts photographs and videos about the bank as well as information on the bank’s services and links to popular products. In fact, the bank already runs two groups in Vkontakte, one group in Odnoklassniki, and a Twitter account. The regional SMM market experts speak very highly of the launch of the bank’s projects in the social network Vkontakte. According to a research done by the digital data agency DeltaClick (called Top

The number of violations of the antimonopoly legislation in the field of telecommunications is now on the rise in Sverdlovsk Region, Head of Russia’s Antimonopoly Service Sverdlovsk Region division Tatiana Kolotova said at a press conference. Kolotova pointed out that the increase in the number of offenses was due to Rostelecom. ‘We had to process four or five suits involving this company this year,’ the official added. In addition to telecommunications, power engineering, heat supply industry, and railway shipments are also common areas of the antimonopoly legislation abuse. ‘Every year,

Ural Airlines has received a letter of gratitude from Sverdlovsk Region Government once again; the letter was sent to thank the company for taking part in charity work, its great social responsibility, and providing immediate help for the financially challenged Russians in 2011. The benefactors’ awarding ceremony took place at the end of Charity Days coordinated in Sverdlovsk Region on December 6-21, 2011, Ural Airlines’ press office reports. ‘Your charity work promotes the revival of Russia’s great moral traditions,’ the letter from Sverdlovsk Region Government, Sverdlovsk Region Union of

Radio Equipment Plant placed a claim against Bank Inteza with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court. According to the materials of the case, the claim amounts to 1.28m RUR.

OOO Progress Universal won the tender aimed at selling a 3.5% stake in Ural Transport Bank (UralTransBank) that belonged to Russian Railways. This information is available from the website of TransCreditBank, the company that coordinated the tender. The asset was sold at the opening bid price of 36.8m RUR.