This January, Bank Severnaya Kazna’s net asset volume has gone down by 527.794 million RUR (from 35,997,129,000 RUR on January 1, 2009 to 35,469,335,000 on February 1, 2009). These data are available from the synoptic table displaying Sverdlovsk Region-based banks’ performance indicators (placed on Bank24.ru’s official website).

URSA Bank made 228,125 million RUR worth of coupon payments on its ISIN XS 0288664617ruble Eurobonds on February 26, 2009. The coupon yield was determined at 9,125% a year. The bank went through with the five-billion-ruble LPN issue on February 26, 2007; the papers were to be in circulation for three years. The issue was carried out by Ireland-based URSA Finance PLC and coordinated by Citigroup и Standard Bank.

VUZ-Bank’s losses came to 45.134 million RUR in January 2009. These data are available from the synoptic table displaying Sverdlovsk Region-based banks’ performance indicators (placed on Bank24.ru’s official website).

According to the synoptic table displaying Sverdlovsk Region-based banks’ performance indicators (available via Bank24.ru’s official website), Bank24.ru’s losses had reached 64.027 million RUR by February 1, 2009.

Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) spent over 1 billion RUR on social welfare programs in 2008. The company’s PR Department reports they increased their spending on aiding the war veterans through Metallurg charity fund and on other charity projects. For one, the number of employees who had a chance to go to the corporate health centers last year was 8% greater compared to the year 2007. Then, some 10,000 people were offered paid trips to MMK’s ski resorts, which exceeded the figures for the previous year by 40%. Finally, the enterprise kept on supporting the new mothers and their