According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Uralprivatbank to natural persons for 181 day to 1 year went down by 61.78% (from 35.041 million RUR to 13.391 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

According to Rosstat (the state statistical agency), the volume of natural persons’ deposits in Russian banks has already exceeded 4.3 billion RUR. The figure went up by 39.1% between July 1, 2006 and July 1, 2007. SKB-Bank’s Deposit Transactions Director Denis Belogurov says this impressive increase in the popularity of natural persons’ deposits largely has to do with two decisive factors: ‘Firstly, people’s incomes are growing, which means Russian citizens have more available cash that they need to invest somehow. Secondly, the banks’ potential customers are now much more aware of various

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin will award gifted children and their tutors with fellowships on September 7, 2007. Since 1993, the Governor has been holding annual receptions for one hundred gifted children and their tutors from all the spots in the region. This time, the government house is to host winners of regional, All-Russian, and international academic contests and arts and sports competitions as well as their tutors and coaches. Last year the fellowship was raised from 3,000 RUR to 7,000 RUR for children and from 6,000 RUR to 20,000 RUR for their tutors, the spokesperson for

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Uralfinance Commercial Bank to natural persons for 91 to 180 days went down by 51.62% (from 10.37 million RUR to 5.17 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

‘The recent international liquidity crisis resulted in a major revaluation of the way things work in the international financial system. The crisis was largely brought about by problems some U.S. citizens kept experiencing with making their mortgage payments. Because many of them started making fewer (if any) payments, the bonds that were normally backed up by these mortgages were suddenly devaluated,’ SKB-Bank’s Trading Operations Director Evgeniy Batuyev said to UrBC. ‘As a matter of fact, the problem seems to be of local nature only and is therefore not supposed to affect other national

The value of net assets of Energy – Mixed Investments (the unit investment trust) managed by Eurogreen Management Company Ltd. went down by 6% between July 31, 2007 and August 31, 2007. According to Eurogreen’s website, the company’s net assets decreased from 5,209,096.02 RUR on July 31, 2007 to 4,895,007.9 RUR on August 31, 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by UralTransBank to state-owned for-profit organizations for 181 days to 1 year went down by 42.07% (from 3.15 million RUR to 1.825 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (part of ChTPZ Group) started the environmental monitoring project in Pervouralsk. The company’s press officer reports this local environmental monitoring is part of the company’s conservation program developed by both the plant’s experts and independent consultants such as the British Atkins. The project is targeted at evaluating the impact the plant and the future electric furnace steelmaking facility are going to make on the local environment and will take about two years to get accomplished. This monitoring is believed to provide reliable data on the state of

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by AGROPROMBANK Credit to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for up to 30 days went down by 20% (from 12.5 million RUR to 10 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of call loans given by Tyumenenergobank to for-profit SROs went down by 56.16% (from 4.03 million RUR to 1.767 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

The division of Rostechnadzor (the state environmental, technological, and nuclear safety watchdog) in Ural Federal District conducted some inspections aimed at checking the compliance of Klyuchevsk Ferrous Alloys Works (based in Dvurechensk) with the environmental protection and industrial safety regulations. Rostechnadzor’s press officer reports these inspections proved that the plant violated the existing environmental legislation. The enterprise’s maximum admissible discharge quotas did not take into account some of the emission sources; to make matters worse, the equipment employed there

‘The heating season is expected to start in Yekaterinburg on September 15, 2007. Heat will be gradually turned on during ten days; all the socially important buildings such as kindergartens, schools, maternity clinics, and hospitals will be the first to be supplied with heat,’ the spokesperson for Mayor of Yekaterinburg Konstantin Pudov said to UrBC. ‘On the whole, things look good, even though it’s true that we have a few problems with the dwellings that used to belong to the military department but have recently been handed over to the municipal authorities. The city, for one, was given

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin met the management of Tractor hockey club on the first day of the All-Russian hockey championship. The spokesperson for the Governor reports coach Andrei Nazarov and the club director Isaac Valitskiy made a report on how the team was getting ready for the new season in the super-league; in addition, Mr. Sumin was invited to the club’s first game against Saint Petersburg-based SKA hockey club. Mr. Nazarov and Mr. Valitskiy asked if it was possible to restore Tractor’s training camp located near Lake Smolino. The Governor approved of this idea and asked

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by GRAN Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 91 to 180 days went down by 64.85% (from 203.657 million RUR to 71.586 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

Severnaya Kazna reports through its online representation that it is once again experiencing problems providing customers with access to their Internet Bank and Client Bank services. ‘Some of our users were unable to use the programs on Friday, August 31, 2007. We managed to locate the problem at about 4.30 PM and can assure everyone that the bank’s online services are to be available in full by 1 PM on September 3, 2007,’ the bank’s press release states.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Ural Innovational Commercial Bank to state-owned for-profit organizations for 181 days to 1 year went down by 23.34% (from 6 million RUR to 4.6 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

‘The slow-rate 1.5-storey-a-month construction of the third section of Antey Business Center that our customers are talking about has been caused by the irregularity and insufficiency of the monthly financing that was supposed to be supplied by these customers. In fact, they would often provide the money without trying to comply with the terms of our agreement. For our company, this Antey project is a thing of the past; we believe we have done our share of work, and any further comments are simply unnecessary,’ Metalline’s PR Manager Evgeniya Selischeva said to UrBC. ‘However, there still

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of natural persons’ demand deposits and investments in Plato Bank went down by 16.16% (from 1.622 million RUR to 1.36 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

MegaFon, Russia’s major mobile operator, started its new promotion campaign on September 1, 2007. The company is going to give out 100 Mercedes Benzes as prizes to 100 customers within the course of 100 days. Their press officer reports if you want to take part in this prize hunt, you need to send a blank text message using number 1000. Each such message gives you ten points; apart from that, each participant will be sent text messages containing some questions, and if you answer them correctly, you may score additional points. The more points a participant scores, the greater his or her

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Tyumenenergobank valid for up to 30 days went down by 57.52% (from 153 million RUR to 65 million RUR) in January-July 2007.