According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Pervouralsk Joint Stock Commercial Bank to sole traders for 1 to 3 years went down by 14.52% (from 39.581 million RUR to 33.834 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Yekaterinburg Municipal Bank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 100% (from 5 million RUR to zero) in January-August 2007.

URSA Bank published a report on its consolidated accounts in the first half of 2007, with figures compiled in accordance with the IAS; the report was audited by KPMG. The data provided in the report indicate that the bank’s assets rose by 3.1 times on July 1, 2007 compared to a year earlier and reached 143.7 billion RUR. The bank’s equity capital grew by 7.7 times and came to 26.4 billion RUR. URSA Bank’s profits amounted to 1.43 billion RUR in January-June 2007, which exceeds the figures for January-June 2006 by 2.4 times; its returns on assets and equity amounted to 2.5% and 31.7%,

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank valid for 31 to 90 days went down by 100% (from 175.001 million RUR to zero) in January-August 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in SberInvestBank valid for 1 to 3 years went down by 30% (from 20 million RUR to 14 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

‘Russian Chrome 1915 did have a permission to dump a certain amount of manufacturing water in the local pond, but this permission actually imposed some very strict limits upon the company. However, the enterprise exceeded these limits considerably, which is why its top executives are to undergo a criminal trial now. Besides, we intend to go on doing our scheduled inspections,’ the spokesperson for the regional division of Rostechnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) Artem Kagarodov said to UrBC. Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities inspected the area near the village of

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Uralfinance Bank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 11.77% (from 8.5 million RUR to 7.5 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of nongovernmental financial organizations’ deposits in UralTransBank valid for 91 to 180 days went down by 100% (from 2 million RUR to zero) in January-August 2007.

SKB-Bank set up some new ATMs in the south of Russia, namely, in Volgograd and Rostov Regions. The 24/7 automatic teller machines can be found at 11 Turgenevskiy Lane in the town of Volzhskiy and at 74b Druzhby St. in Taganrog. This was Taganrog’s eleventh ATM belonging to SKB-Bank; as for Volzhskiy, the bank now owns six ATMs there. All in all, SKB-Bank’s ATM network covers nine Russian regions, with over 200 machines operating in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Tyumen Regions as well as in Perm Territory and Moscow.

Twenty-two employees of Bogoslovskiy Aluminum Plant (part of United Company RUSAL) have successfully undergone all the testing procedures and got international certificates that prove their expertise in the field of project management, UC RUSAL’s local press officer Roman Lukichev said to UrBC. ‘Today, project management is one of the most important mechanisms at play in a market economy. All the experts of Bogoslovskiy Aluminum Plant, including our chief alumina and electrolysis production engineers, economists, and developers felt they really needed some additional training to be able to

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by AGROPROMBANK Credit to sole traders for 91 to 180 days went down by 8.65% (from 8.1 million RUR to 7.4 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

The permit entitling one of Magnitogorsk-based plants belonging to ChTPZ Group to produce steam and hot water manifolds for heat supply facilities was renewed by Byelorussia’s Promatomnadzor (the state industrial and nuclear safety watchdog). The spokesperson for the company says trying to meet their customers’ increasing demand for power engineering equipment is one of their top developmental priorities at the moment. Russia and the CIS’ nuclear-power engineering giants are known to place orders with the plant on regular basis. According to Byelorussian law, all the equipment that is

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Tagilbank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 65.5% (from 15.36 million RUR to 5.3 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

Uralmashzavod signed an agreement with Uralmash Metallurgical Equipment regarding the delivery of four segments and three other pieces of equipment for continuous casting machine to Severstal in April 2008. Uralmashzavod’s press officer reports the equipment is to be made using Uralmash Metallurgical Equipment’s engineering and lay-outs. The future products are meant for CC machine No. 2 made by Uralmashzavod in 2005 and installed in Severstal’s LD plant. The CC machine meets all the modern requirements and is capable of performing automated continuous casting operations on the level that

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by GRAN Commercial Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 1 to 3 years went down by 13.44% (from 363.304 million RUR to 314.497 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

‘Most people still prefer to spend their vacations in countries like Egypt, India, and Thailand this fall. Our customers mainly choose to go to Egypt in September, India is normally the most frequently visited country in early and mid-October, whereas the end of October and the beginning of November are usually the days when travelers go to Thailand,’ one of Elita Travel’s leading experts Olga Voronova said to UrBC. ‘Most of our customers book stays at four-star hotels, with the average cost of a seven-day all-inclusive tour coming to about $700,’ she noted.

The net assets of Concern Kalina (one of Russia’s largest cosmetics producers) went down by 8.2% in the first half of 2007 compared to a year earlier (with figures compiled in accordance with the IAS). The information to this extent is available from the concern’s official website.

The regional Ministry of Finance reports Sverdlovsk Region’s consolidated budget revenues came to 68,355,300,000 RUR in January-July 2007, which makes up 62.6% of the annual plan. The region has already received 59.3% of individual income tax revenues for 2007, 54.3% of profit tax revenues, 76.1% of property tax revenues, 61% of excise duty payments, 89.8% of aggregate income tax revenues, 87.5% of fees for the use of natural resources, and 132.6% of non-tax revenues that had been planned for the year 2007. The budget expenses amounted to 58,947,300,000 million RUR, which comes to 52.3% of

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Universal Bank to for-profit self-regulatory organizations for 1 to 3 years went down by 47.17% (from 12.303 million RUR to 6.5 million RUR) in January-August 2007.

Yekaterinburg’s public prosecution and surveillance authorities are going to investigate the origin of billboards placed in the city streets that call for boycotting BALTMAN chain store. The statements used in the ads are outright nationalist and xenophobic (some examples include phrases like ‘Shop in BALTMAN and help our enemies,’ or ‘BALTMAN go back to the Baltic States’). Moreover, the ads bear images of Adolph Hitler as well as swastikas and other nationalist symbols. In addition, Sverdlovsk Region’s media received a letter from The Bronze Soldier, a non-existent NGO. In it, the