January 29, 2015. 8,000 m2 worth of pavilions have been booked for Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg so far, Maxim Zverkov announced at a recent coordination committee meeting. Zverkov is President of Formica Group, the event coordinator, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. This year, the 6th Innoprom Exhibition will be held on July 8-11; the event will be mainly dedicated to Production Efficiency. Five specialized sub-exhibitions will be organized for the first time this year, with a special focus on import replacement and

January 29, 2015. ‘Uralvagonzavod Corporation approved of and adopted its quality management system for 2015-2017. The document applies not only to the corporation’s head plant but also to its Volchansk, Rubtsov, and Chelyabinsk subsidiaries as well as to Nizhniy Tagil-based Ural Railway Carriage Design Office,’ the corporation’s press service says. According to the press service, the company’s strategy is targeted at enhancing produce competitiveness, ensuring its unfailing quality, reliability, and safety, improving its QMS and business management system efficiency, and annual certification

January 29, 2015. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Culture Department Tatiana Yaroshevskaya presented a project on Hermitage-Urals Center, the city council’s press service reports. ‘Yekaterinburg (known as Sverdlovsk at the time) was the only city to store the State Hermitage Museum’s unique collections. Thus it would be only fair to open Hermitage-Urals Center at our Fine Arts Museum. The State Hermitage experts, including the museum’s Director Mikhail Piotrovsky, have visited Yekaterinburg quite a number of times; these visits resulted in the architectural and conceptual project. We have a

January 29, 2015. The court ruled that Bank Renaissance Credit should pay the money obtained illegally from customers back, Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor reports. It became clear after looking into the loan contracts that the bank forced its customers to pay for an insurance policy when signing a loan agreement; the fee came to 0.8% to 1.1% of the loan amount for every month within the loan period. Under the terms of the contracts, the bank was supposed to open a (bank card) account for the borrowers and engage in transactions set forth in the contract. Now Paragraph 1.2.2.6

January 29, 2015. Corporates’ deposits at the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development have been growing faster than the market’s average, Expert RA, an international rating agency, states in its monthly banks’ ratings. The amount of money deposited with the UBRD increased by 65% between December 1, 2013 and December 1, 2014, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Corporates’ deposits went up the most: the increase came to over 50% in the course of one year, which had to do with both the arrival of new customers and the growth of existing clients’ deposit volumes. Remarkably, the settlement