According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in UralTransBank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 27.74% (from 58.549 million RUR to 42.304 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of natural persons’ deposits and investments in SberInvestBank valid for 31 to 90 days went down by 64.43% (from 1.988 million RUR to 707,000 RUR) in January-August 2007.

‘The sales on the existing homes market nearly halved compared to a year earlier; most people are now looking for one-room apartments, cottages, and single rooms,’ Atrium Real Estate Center’s Residential Real Estate Director Olga Zavyalova said to UrBC. ‘Ours is a fairly large company, so we are doing our best to retain our personnel (and we are talking about more than just ten or fifteen people here). Despite the current standstill, we can easily meet the minimum requirements imposed on the number of transactions, so we don’t really need to make our employees redundant.’ At the same time, Ms