12 March 200809:11

Europe-Asia sets up subsidiaries in Moscow and Volgograd

Europe-Asia, the information and consulting center dealing in services related to a business’s economic security with headquarters in Yekaterinburg, set up subsidiaries in Moscow and Volgograd. ‘Making sure a business can be secure is a complex set of tasks like eliminating the legal, physical, and information security risks, coordinating the personnel, and cooperating with the state authorities and the security agencies. To protect a business successfully, one needs highly skilled workers, a lot of experience, and certain know-hows which our company takes pride in. This is why our services
12 March 200809:05

Sberbank’s Ural branch offers foreign currency

Sberbank of Russia’s Ural branch keeps raising the number of Yekaterinburg-based outlets where one can now buy or sell not only the traditional U.S. dollars and Euros but also the UK pounds sterling, Canadian dollars, Swiss francs, Czech korunas, Ukrainian hryvnias, Chinese Renminbi yuans, and Japanese yens. So far, these currencies are dealt with in eight of Sberbank’s Yekaterinburg offices at 11 Moskovskaya St., 1 Vainer St., 25 Verkh-Isetskiy Boulevard, 62 Tatischev St., 10 Belorechenskaya St., 4 Yasnaya St., 84 Repin St., and Mega Trade Center at 87 Metallurgi St. The latter can be found
11 March 200808:14

Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s net assets grow 44.31% in 2007

RBC.Rating has recently come up with its newest research on Russia’s banking market that proves the country’s banks still have a lot of developmental potential despite the external markets’ crises. What is more, Russia’s largest banks managed to grow impressively in almost all the possible fields. The net assets of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development, for instance, rose by 44.31% in 2007 and reached 37,817.5 million RUR on January 1, 2008. This is the 63d best result among all the Russian banks and the best result in Sverdlovsk Region. The bank’s quick assets increased by 85.17%.
11 March 200808:08

Koltsovo airport fined by Antimonopoly Service

Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service made Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg pay a fine of 13,041,093 RUR for administrative offenses. The Service declared on December 4, 2007 that the airport, as well as RusAviaJet and Aviaprad, violated the federal law on the protection of competition (Article 11, Part 1, points 3 and 6). The offense consisted in the three parties’ collusion, so the Service insisted that this violation must be removed. The companies in question agreed that some mineral and oil products would be stored by them in July 2006-November 2007; as a
11 March 200808:06

Evraz Group’s IT conference held in Nizhniy Tagil

Evraz Group coordinated an IT international conference in Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, on March 4-6, 2008. This was the first time for the conference to be held in this town, with more than 120 participants from thirty-four Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, American, and South African enterprises arriving to take part in the event. Apart from nearly all of Evraz Group’s members, the conference was attended by such global IT giants as Microsoft, IBM, Xerox, Oracle, Siemens, and some others, the spokesperson for Evraz Group said to UrBC. The agenda of the conference mainly covered presentations
07 March 200808:15

Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation to double excavator output in 2008

Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation is expecting to double its excavator production this year compared with the year 2007, the company’s press officer said to UrBC. According to the press officer, the enterprise will mainly focus on supplying its ESH-40.100 walking excavator with a forty-cubic-meter shovel and a hundred-meters-long shovel boom for a Chinese customer. In addition, Uralmash will produce about forty EKG-5A excavators with five-cubic-meter shovels for Russian metallurgical and mining enterprises. So far, the company has launched ten excavators already.