Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won in one of the country’s most respectable environmental contests called Russia’s One Hundred Best Enterprises/Environment and Environmental Management. The event was supported by the Soviet of the Federation, the State Duma, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and some environmental NGOs and consisted of two stages. First, the regional authorities selected a few local organizations that did particularly well in terms of conservational activity and environmental management In Chelyabinsk Region, MMK and Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant were

‘Like all the other Legislative Assembly deputies, I was insured, and like all the other deputies elected at the same time, I was insured through Surgutneftegas’s Yekaterinburg branch. When I was leaving office I found out that, according to my contract with the insurer, I should be compensated in case I get seriously ill. I have second-degree disability at the moment, so the company is supposed to pay me 70% of the insured sum. I informed the insurer about this, but they have been dragging on for ages,’ former deputy of Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly Vladimir Kadochnikov said to

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Perviy Respublikanskiy Bank valid for up to 30 days dropped by 100% (from 4 million RUR to zero) in January 2008.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Ural Innovational Commercial Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 31 to 90 days went down by 8.42% (from 38 million RUR to 34.8 million RUR) in January 2008.

The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development will stop paying the interest to those bank card holders who like to keep their money in their card account on April 1, 2008. Nevertheless, any bank card holder will be able to make its money work by transferring it from a bank card account onto a deposit right through the ATM. The beauty of the new system lies in its system approach: firstly, the bank offers its customers four types of deposits to choose from, all of which were designed so as to meet the customers’ needs and are based on convenient and advantageous terms. Secondly, a card

Ural Airlines launched special tariffs for its Yekaterinburg-Saint Petersburg-Yekaterinburg flights on March 26, 2008: if you buy a return ticket via the company’s online booking office, regardless of the departure date, the ticket’s full cost (all fees included) will come to 9,800 RUR, the airline’s press officer reports. In addition, if you buy a single ticket ten days before the flight, the price will come to 4,700 RUR (all fees included). So, travelers who’d like to go to Saint Petersburg this April can already use the carrier’s latest offer.

‘We expect the first shipment of Toyota Camry cars assembled in Russia to arrive this April. In terms of quality, these automobiles are just as good as the ones made in Japan, while the 9% decrease in price was brought about by the desire to lure more customers in,’ Natalya Malakhova from Toyota Center Vostok’s Marketing Department said to UrBC. Toyota intends to start selling Toyota Camry cars made in Russia on March 31, 2008. ‘At the moment, our customers have to wait for up to six months before their car arrives – that’s what our contract says. Toyota has not yet commented on whether this

‘The news of JP Morgan Chase & Co’s upcoming acquisition of Bear Stearns, an investment company, was definitely last week’s greatest highlight. Bear Stearns had nearly collapsed due to liquidity problems earlier, so the urgency of the transaction resulted in investor panic that only cooled off after the U.S. Federal Reserve System made some comforting promises,’ SKB-Bank’s Trading Operations Director Evgeniy Batuev says. ‘Moreover, these events have led traders all over the world to believe that no big upheavals are to be expected in the nearest future. The Monday statistics on sales in

A number of Yekaterinburg car centers’ top executives and Chairman of Yekaterinburg Consumer Rights Committee coordinated a round table discussion on whether being a car dealer is easy at one of the local press centers. The points on the agenda included issues like the local automobile market’s saturation, the quality of the supplied cars, and some other points. One of the quests who failed to arrive was Natalya Nagornova, Autoland’s Marketing and Advertising Director, but she never showed up, thus proving once again that this car dealer tends to lack informational transparency and is

The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development is now willing to consider loan applications from any entrepreneur located within the bank’s operating area. Besides, the amount of money one could borrow and the terms of paying it back have been both enlarged: the payment period for the Business Express scoring loan has been extended to two years, whereas the maximum amount of money the bank could give you now comes to up to 1,000,000 RUR if you haven’t got some nice credit record to produce and up to 1,500,000 RUR for the Simplified loan scheme and for any kind of unsecured loan. Moreover,

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of natural persons’ deposits in Uralprivatbank valid for 1 to 3 years went down by 7.97% (from 415.457 million RUR to 382.339 million RUR) in January 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Tyumenenergobank to natural persons for 31 to 90 days plummeted by 100% (from 5 million RUR to zero) in January-February 2008.

Aston’s official website reports the builder is working on Nakhimov Plaza, an office and trade center at 9 Vainer St. At the moment, the construction process does not appear to be progressing. Remarkably, until very recently, the billboard next to the construction site used to state that the project was being implemented by Ural-VEM and PremierStroy and was to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2007. However, even the preliminary construction stages like concrete ceilings and outer walls haven’t been done yet. Aston’s website does not provide any information as to when the construction

MegaFon Ural will start offering its customers a new kind of bonus on April 1, 2008. One will be able to use ten minutes worth of outgoing calls for free, using 25 bonus points, MegaFon Ural’s press officer reports. A company’s subscriber can activate the offer by dialing 115 5# or by sending a text message (210) at 5010. The offer will be valid for 60 days from the moment of activation. Besides, you can always share your bonus with another MegaFon Ural’s subscriber.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by UralTransBank to sole traders for 31 to 90 days went down by 50.82% (from 105.975 million RUR to 52.122 million RUR) in January-February 2008.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Bank24.ru to sole traders for 1 to 3 years went down by 16.22% (from 107.916 million RUR to 90.417 million RUR) in January 2008.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by VUZ Bank to sole traders for 181 days to 1 year went down by 8.36% (from 84.606 million RUR to 77.529 million RUR) in January 2008.

Ural Airlines introduced the new tariffs for its Yekaterinburg-Moscow-Yekaterinburg flights on March 25, 2008. The cost of the ticket now depends on how early you book, the airline’s press officer reports. If a passenger books a ticket twenty-five days before the flight, the cost of a single ticket will come to 2,200 RUR (excluding the fuel fee). If you book a fortnight before the flight, a single ticket will cost you 2,950 RUR (excluding the fuel fee), whereas, if you book within ten days of the flight, the ticket will come at a price of 3,800 RUR (excluding the fuel fee). This means that

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Bank URALSIB valid for 31 to 90 days went down by 67.28% (from 2,960,074,000 RUR to 968,371,000 RUR) in January 2008.

‘Last year, Ford was only the third best-selling car in Ural Federal District; this brand was preceded by Toyota and Chevrolet, despite the fact that Ford is normally number one or two in other parts of Russia,’ Capital reports. The newspaper says this could be the reason for Autoland’s GD Evgeniy Terebenin’s recent demotion. ‘Mr. Terebenin was unofficially reported to be demoted due to the customers’ numerous complaints. At the same time, the market players feel the consumer dissatisfaction has nothing to do with it. They believe one of the holding’s proprietors started experiencing problems