Central Bank of Russia reports volume of profit-making self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Uralfinance Bank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 11.8% (from 8.5 million RUR to 7.5 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

A flight operated by Aviaprad was delayed once again; a plane coming to Yekaterinburg from Nyagan was supposed to have arrived in Yekaterinburg at 1.55 PM yet the interactive timetable used in Koltsovo airport read that Aviaprad’s flight would only land at 3.05 PM. On top of that, an Aviaprad’s plane arriving from Norilsk would only arrive in Yekaterinburg at 3.05 PM rather than the scheduled 2 PM on August 17, 2007.

Sverdlovsk Region Anti-Terrorist Committee members met in order to elaborate some extra measures that could enhance the anti-terrorist protection of railway transport. In the absence of the Governor the meeting was chaired by the head of the regional security services Boris Kozinenko. The spokesperson for the Governor reports the meeting was summoned after an act of terror performed at Oktyabrskiy Railways that caused derailing of a passenger train going from Moscow to Saint Petersburg on August 13, 2007. The meeting attendees said their most pressing problem at the moment was the stealing of

The Ural branch of URSA Bank launched the URSA Bank Money Order campaign, which means that any customer who uses the bank’s system to have at least 20,000 RUR, $700, or ?700 transferred for them between August 13, 2007 and October 31, 2007 can take part in a prize-winning lottery; the drawing is scheduled for November 2, 2007, and the prize is a communicator phone. ‘URSA Bank’s money orders are a quick and dynamic way of having your money reach the person who needs it most. Our customers use the service not only to help their nearest and dearest, pay their tuition fees, or make a loan

'The most wide-spread adulterated goods that are imported to Russia on the whole and the Urals in particular this year are vegetables, fruit, meat, and strong drinks. Most of these goods come from Central Asia. The customs officers from the Ural Customs Administration say they find faults with goods from China particularly frequently; this usually pertains to clothes, footwear, and toys. As regards Kazakhstan, problems are normally related to meat and fruit,’ Deputy Head of Ural Customs Administration Vadim Myasnikov announced at a press conference on August 17, 2007. 'Russia also

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by UralTransBank to state-owned profit-making organizations for 1 to 3 years went down by 35.3% (from 912,000 RUR to 590,000 RUR) in January-July 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by SberInvestBank to sole traders despite overdraft account went down by 100% (from 1.622 million RUR to zero) in January-July 2007.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta came up with a rating of Russia’s largest banks in terms of consumer loans in the first half of 2007. According to the data the newspaper provided, Russian banks offered their customers a total of 583 billion RUR worth of loans in January-June 2007. Uniastrum Bank, for instance, provided its borrowers with 346.7 million RUR worth of non-collateral loans in the first half of the year, which falls short of the figures for January-June 2006 by 13.5%.

The division of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Ural Federal District reports the local militiamen conducted 1,745 inspections aimed at protecting finances allocated for the implementation of top priority national projects in January-July 2007. These inspections revealed 113 offenses that have already resulted in 99 criminal lawsuits, including 31 cases related to the National Health Project, 24 cases related to the National Education Project, 43 cases related to the National Housing Project, and 15 cases related to the National Agriculture Project. 43 cases have been classed as

'The construction of the third part of ANTEY Shopping Center had to be stopped for the time being, at least this is true of the visible part of the process. The decision to stop it was made because, as it turned out, we don’t have a construction permit and could be faced with a large fine if we ventured to go on building,’ founder of ANTEY Business Center Andrei Gavrilovskiy said to UrBC. The third part of the center was supposed to have been commissioned in 2008, the company’s official website reports. The total area of the new extension was expected to come to 108,470 square meters and

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Ural Interregional Bank to profit-making self-regulatory organizations for up to 30 days went down by 40.7% (from 23.6 million RUR to 14 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta came up with a rating of Russia’s largest banks in terms of consumer loans in the first half of 2007. According to the data the newspaper provided, Russian banks offered their customers a total of 583 billion RUR worth of loans in January-June 2007. Agroprombank Credit, for instance, provided its borrowers with 385.3 million RUR worth of non-collateral loans in the first half of the year, which falls short of the figures for January-June 2006 by 22.47%.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by UIC Bank to natural persons for 1 to 3 years went down by 53.9% (from 27.811 million RUR to 12.828 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

Ural Airlines and Yekaterinburg branch of Vympelcom (aka Beeline) looked at the success of their joint project known as Cell Retail aboard Ural Airlines that was first launched about a year ago and is available on all of the carrier’s flights. The airline’s press officer repots the project is mainly targeted at offering extra services to Beeline subscribers who choose to use Ural Airlines as well. While in flight, passengers can purchase 100-, 250-, and 500-ruble phone cards and Beeline subscription packages. ‘We keep updating the range of passenger services on regular basis; some of these

SKB-Bank evaluated its performance in the first seven months of 2007. The bank’s net assets have increased by over 11.7 billion RUR and amounted to 25.1 billion RUR on August 1, 2007, the bank’s press officer reports. SKB-Bank’s loan portfolio exceeded 17 billion RUR on August 1, 2007 compared with only 9.3 billion RUR a year earlier. The volume of the finances the bank has managed to attract nearly doubled against last August and reached 22.6 billion RUR, with the better part of the money (6.8 billion RUR) coming from natural persons. SKB-Bank’s own resources came to 2.898 billion RUR and

Following the decision taken by RAO UES of Russia Board of Directors on April 27, 2007, what was formerly known as the Urals and Volga Interregional Network Company is to be named the Urals Interregional Network Company now. The company has also acquired an English name - something it did not use to have before, the spokesperson for the new enterprise reports. This means that re-structuring the whole system of the interregional power distribution networks has resulted in setting up a new large Ural company that will unite the electric networks of Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, and Kurgan Regions as

RAO UES of Russia held a BOD meeting that resulted in a decision to suggest that Yekaterinburg Electrical Network Company gets reorganized through creating a separate sales agency. This was actually the first procedure related to re-structuring the company and helping it meet the requirements imposed by the Federal Law 36 as of March 26, 2003 regarding the separation of activities pertaining to natural monopolies and those that can be classed as potentially competitive, the spokesperson for Yekaterinburg Electrical Network Company reports. The new sales agency YekaterinburgEnergoSbyt is to be

The Interregional Territorial Technological and Environmental Safety Department of Rostechnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) in Ural Federal District reports their inspections revealed a number of violations in terms of Sverdlovsk Region authorities getting ready for the heating season 2007/2008. For one, Uktus Company never got a license entitling it to handle the explosion-prone productive facilities; Polevskoye and Sverdlovsk Utilities Systems (both of which are based in Polevskoy) haven’t got enough trained and certificated employees; the towns of Degtyarsk, Zarechniy, and

The Interregional Territorial Technological and Environmental Safety Department of Rostechnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) in Ural Federal District reports 99 people got hurt in industrial accidents in the first half of 2007 compared with 191 people in January-June 2006. Ten fatal accidents have been reported since the beginning of the year, as well as two accidents involving a group of people, with one victim actually getting killed. 54.5% of the victims were aged 50-59, 27.3% were 40 to 49 years old, 9.1% were aged 20-29, and 9.1% were aged 30-39. All of them were male; the job of

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Uralfinprombank to natural persons for 91 to 180 days went down by 72.5% (from 4.311 million RUR to 1.184 million RUR) in January-June 2007.