A new office of Sberbank’s Ural branch can now be found at 52 Kraul St. in Yekaterinburg, the bank’s press officer reports. The new bank outlet offers its customers a wide range of services and products for natural persons such as ruble deposits, loans, processing of housing bill payments as well as of other types of payments, handling transactions involving coins made of precious metals, and money orders. In addition, the office is equipped with an ATM that can be used for both getting some cash and paying one’s housing bills, taxes, parking tickets, and so on. Even though the ATM is now

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by UralFinPromBank to natural persons for 91 to 180 days went down by 82.7% (from 4.311 million RUR to 746,000 RUR) in January-November 2007.

Uralmash Machine Building Corporation signed an agreement with Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works regarding the delivery of a casting crane capable of lifting up to 225 tons. The delivery is expected to take place in the fourth quarter of 2008. The spokesperson for the Corporation reports the crane is to be designed by Uralmash Engineering and to be produced at Uralmashzavod. The weight of the equipment is estimated at 290 tons. The plant is also making two drums for Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works at the moment; the contract to this extent was signed in August 2007; the shipment of

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Tagilbank to sole traders for 91 to 180 days went down by 78% (from 5.462 million RUR to 1.2 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

The value of net assets of Energy - Mixed Investments (the unit investment trust) managed by Eurogreen Management Company Ltd. went down by .03% between December 11, 2007 and December 12, 2007. According to Eurogreen’s website, the company’s net assets decreased from 3,779,926.98 RUR on December 11, 2007 to 3,768, 404.05 RUR on December 12, 2007.

MegaFon Ural has recently launched its newest Mobile TV project; television programs can now be broadcast onto the screen of your mobile phone. At the moment, programs are available from three television channels: these are A-One, Music Box Ru, and Vesti-24. MegaFon Ural is currently negotiating with twelve more channels. 'We are not expecting the demand for Mobile TV to be very high for the time being, as the service is little known in Russia as of yet. Still, foreign marketing agencies report mobile TV viewing is very popular in Japan, Korea, and Italy,’ MegaFon Ural’s GD Denis

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by VUZ Bank to state-run for-profit organizations for 31 to 90 days went down by 14.13% (from 96.08 million RUR to 82.506 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

The court of Revda, Sverdlovsk Region, declared Ruslan Romanov, a sole trader, guilty of violating Article 146 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code (large-scale abuse of copyright). Mr. Romanov bought several pirated DVDs with feature films belonging to Universal Pictures International BV and CD Land+ in April 2007 and then tried to sell them in Revda. The law-enforcement officers later confiscated 254 pirated DVDs and 54 CD s. The sole trader’s offense is reported to have done Universal Pictures and CD Land + more than 2 million RUR worth of damage. The court found the offender guilty, so

Due to some technical maintenance operations in Bank Severnaya Kazna processing center, the bank will have to stop handling or accepting VISA/Master card from 4 AM to 6 AM on December 17, 2007. This means the bank’s ATMs and POS terminals are not going to be operating properly for the time being.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by SberInvestBank to sole traders for 181 days to 1 year went down by 98.87% (from 10.95 million RUR to 124,000 RUR) in January-November 2007.

URSA Bank now services VISA, Master Card, and Gold Crown in Jewelry 585 stores located in Siberian Federal District after a special agreement has been signed by the bank and the jewelry chain store, the bank’s press officer reports. 'According to this agreement, 41 stores in Siberian Federal District (including 12 terminals in Novosibirsk) are going to accept cards thanks to URSA Bank,’ the bank’s Plastic Card Director says. Next year, Jewelry 585 intends to set up sixty more stores in Siberian Federal District that will all use URSA Bank’s acquiring network. In addition, the bank

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by UralTransBank to non-profit NGOs for 1 to 3 years went down by 34.98% (from 15.307 million RUR to 9.952 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Agroprombank Credit to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 13 to 90 days went down by 18.58% (from 350.436 million RUR to 285.32 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

Raisa Sadykova stopped being a member of the Board of Directors of Uralfinprombank on December 10, 2007. This decision was made at one of the BOD meetings.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Bank UralSib to state-run for-profit organizations for over 3 years went down by 47.49% (from 412.553 million RUR to 217.73 million RUR) in January-November 2007.

Ural Airlines reports the company’s passenger turnover reached 2,823,610,000 passenger-kilometers in January-November 2007, which is 15% better than in January-November 2006. The carrier operated 10,190 flights between January 1, 2007 and November 31, 2007, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 11%. 1,043 million people have used the airline’s services since the beginning of the year, and this year’s millionth passenger was serviced three months earlier than in 2006. In addition, the carrier has already handled more cargo this year than a year earlier: over 5,000 tons of cargo and

The value of net assets of Energy - Mixed Investments (the unit investment trust) managed by Eurogreen Management Company Ltd. went down by .69% between December 7, 2007 and December 10, 2007. According to Eurogreen’s website, the company’s net assets decreased from 3,793,428.63 RUR on December 7, 2007 to 3,767,190.74 RUR on December 10, 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Uralprivatbank to natural persons for 91 to 180 days went down by 98.85% (from 2.598 million RUR to 30,000 RUR) in January-November 2007.

The awarding ceremony of the Best Social Report/Sustainable Development Report 2007 contest took place last week. The contest first took place in 2006 within the framework of the ESRA-European Sustainability Reporting Awards in order to praise the Russian companies that are trying to both implement some social welfare projects and come up with social reports on this. URSA Bank received a decoration called Debut. This year, the bank has for the first time drawn up a social report that meets the international GRI G3 standards and has already undergone an audit procedure, the bank’s press

SKB-Bank was able to raise the amount of investments by natural persons by nearly 1 billion RUR in just one month, the bank’s press officer reports. The bank’s Deposit Director Denis Belogurov believes this has to do with the traditional increase in income Russian citizens usually experience at the end of the year: ‘Many companies give their employees end-of-year bonuses, some people get dividends and other types of seasonal income. Quite often, they don’t get to spend everything because of the holidays, so people choose to deposit this money with a bank.’ 'Besides, banks tend to raise