May 14, 2013. In the first three months of 2013, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s basic performance indicators went on growing. The bank’s assets have gone up by 8.3% since the beginning of the year and exceeded 154bn RUR on April 1, 2013 (against 142bn RUR on January 1, 2013), the bank’s press service reports. The bank’s own fund increased by 5.9% (from 12.9bn RUR to 13.6bn RUR) in the first quarter of 2013.At the same time, the N1 figures came to 10.79% while the minimum requirements come to 10%. The UBRD’s net profit came to 320.2m RUR (against 164.3m RUR on January 1,

May 14, 2013. Russian citizens are now paying their loans off less frequently than before. Banks’ customers have not made a single payment on nearly 600,000 loans, and the number of such loans rose by 15% in the first quarter of 2013, Rossiyskaya Gazeta refers to the National Credit History Bureau as saying. The number of loans that banks haven’t received a single back-payment on started to rise as early as the second quarter of 2012, and the Bureau believes this number is prone to keep growing. The organizations feels this has to do with the fact that banks are now dealing with the more

May 14, 2013. A visiting session of ad hoc work team set up to monitor the implementation of the Russian Federation President’s decree in Alapayevsk will take place on May 15. The meeting will be dedicated to plans to create more jobs in Eastern Administrative District, Sverdlovsk Region Government Press Service & Information Administration reports. The region’s Economics Ministry says 34 applications regarding the creation and modernization of 4,190 new jobs have already been placed with them. Most of the applications came from Alapayevsk and Irbit. For one, these are Alapayevsk Mechanic

May 14, 2013. Ural Airlines’ fleet of vehicles got a new addition on May 8: the company bought yet another Airbus 320 with 156 passenger seats. The aircraft arrived in Yekaterinburg from Iordania, where it had been used by a local air carrier. At the moment, Ural Airlines operates a total of 28 planes (19 A320 ones and 9 A321 ones). This year, the airline is planning to buy four more plane, the air carrier’s press service reports. Ural Airlines launched its fleet renovation program in 2006, and the company has been buying new aircraft on a yearly basis since then. The European concern

May 14, 2013. In the first quarter of 2013, Sverdlovsk Region’s fiscal authorities imposed 2,7bn RUR worth of additional taxes to be paid to the Russian Federation’s consolidated budget in the course of their inspections, the press officer of the Federal Tax Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division reports. According to the division’s estimates, the total amount of additionally imposed taxes increased by 91.5m RUR (or 4%) in the first quarter of 2013 against a year earlier. Most of these additionally imposed taxes were value-added tax (61%, or 1.628bn RUR), corporation tax (16%, or 430.5m RUR),