According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of natural persons’ investments and deposits in Uralprivatbank valid for 181 days to 1 year went down by 33.8% (from 143.522 million RUR to 94.974 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by SberInvestBank to natural persons for 181 days to 1 year went down by 36.9% (from 6.331 million RUR to 3.992 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

'Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Antimonopoly Service is now once again looking into the recent increase in fuel prices introduced by Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg. The Service is trying to determine whether this increase was actually justified. The airport management claims this was brought about by growing wholesale purchasing prices, and we’ve already sent out a few inquiries to see if this really was the case,’ Head of Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Antimonopoly Service Marina Pushkareva said to UrBC. Koltsovo airport is now selling its fuel at 18,460 RUR per ton

The growth of Raiffeisenbank Austria’s loan volumes dropped by 3.5% in the first half of 2007 compared to the previous period. The bank is reported to have provided its customers with 26.481 billion RUR in January-June 2007, Interfax-CEA reports.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of nongovernmental financial institutions’ deposits in Yekaterinburg Municipal Bank valid for 31 to 90 days went down by 100% (from 1 million RUR to zero) in January-July 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by AGROPROMBANK Credit to natural persons for 181 days to 1 year went down by 27.4% (from 65.762 RUR to 47.719 RUR) in January-July 2007.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of nongovernmental financial institutions’ deposits in Yekaterinburg Municipal Bank valid for 31 to 90 days went down by 100% (from 1 million RUR to zero) in January-July 2007.

Experts of Novokuznetsk-based paramilitary mine-rescue team have successfully completed testing one of the new fans employed as part of the venting and air heating system installed at Abakanskiy subsidiary of Evrazruda (Russian ore maker and part of Evraz Group). For two days, the experts had been doing a special depression survey that would allow them to indicate the direction and speed of the air streams within the mine. It’s going to take them one and a half months to process these data and come up with a list of recommendations for Abakanskiy management. The new venting and air heating

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of profit-making self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Uralprivatbank valid for 31 to 90 days went down by 36.8% (from 96.431 million RUR to 60.95 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

Bank24.ru made its mortgage loans even more affordable for its customers. The bank reduced the annual interest rate on mortgages down to 10.75% (if you borrow rubles for up to ten years and your first installment comes to over 50% of the price of the dwelling you’re buying), to 11.25% (if you borrow rubles for twenty to thirty years and your first installment comes to over 50%). What is more, the demands a potential mortgager has to meet have grown less strict, with the upper age limit extended from 60 to 75 years old. Then, your last employment may last for only three months and you only

‘We are having particularly many problems with unpaid gas bills this year. The main problem is that the municipalities just can’t use the so-called lax credits since the regional budget hasn’t got the money for this,’ Uralsevergas’s press officer Oleg Vlasov said to UrBC. ‘Our customers used to owe us not more than 1 billion RUR last summer (700 to 800 million RUR at the most), but now their debts come to 1.1 billion RUR. If a company has a large debt and is not trying to pay it back, we have to stop supplying them with natural gas, partially or completely. Among such companies are the

The volume of loans given by SKB-Bank to legal entities and small- and medium-scale businesses amounted to 10 billion RUR on August 1, 2007, which is 39%, or 3.9 billion RUR better than at the beginning of the year. As regards the first half of 2007, the bank did quite well in all the other respects as well. Its loan portfolio grew by over 5.6 billion RUR and reached 15.886 billion RUR on July 1, 2007. Besides, the portfolio is reported to be well-balanced and have very low risks, the bank’s press officer reports.

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by GRAN Commercial Bank to natural persons for 91 to 180 days went down by 76.6% (from 5.415 million RUR to 1.266 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

'It’s good that the region’s prosecution bodies have promptly reacted to the problems related to local practice of giving land allotments to developers. Yet their actions have seriously slowed down the process of getting all the papers filed and approved of,’ the spokesperson for Yekaterinburg municipal council Konstantin Pudov reports. In the meantime, the regional authorities claim that their withdrawal of documents regarding the land distribution never hindered the implementation of the national project known as Affordable Housing to Russian Citizens, and papers on most of the cases

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of loans given by Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank to state-owned profit-making organizations for 1 to 3 years went down by 29.16% (from 4.999 million RUR to 3.541 million RUR) in January-July 2007.

Sberbank’s new mortgage lending center is now located at 14 Shvarts St. in Yekaterinburg. The opening ceremony was attended by Sberbank of Russia Deputy Chair Lyubov Shilchikova, Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg’s Chkalovskiy District, Director of Sberbank’s Chkalovskiy branch Alexander Khachin, and the first customers. All those who came were in for a pleasant surprise: any customer who used the services offered by the new office on July 23-27, 2007 could take part in the lottery, with commission-free servicing of loan as a prize. ‘This office meets all the modern standards and offers all the

Sverdlovsk Region’s budget revenues coming from environmental fees amounted to 129.6 million RUR in January-June 2007, which is 7.7% better than the initially planned figures for the first half of the year. These figures come to 59.2% of the annual plan. The fees were paid as a result of a number of inspections and investigations; besides, the authorities filed 80 administrative suits against various offenders (with 73 cases already processed in court), imposed 62 fines coming to 562,800 RUR altogether (with 263,800 RUR paid already), and issued 149 reports on the need to impose the total of

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by SberInvestBank to natural persons for 91 to 180 days went down by 100% (from 241,000 RUR to zero) in January-June 2007.

Ural Airlines and Taxi Gorod have come with a new offer for the carrier’s customers, Ural Airlines’ press officer reports. When you book a flight via the company’s website (www.uralairlines.com) you are also able to hire a taxi online, which makes it possible for you to get to the airport or get home quickly. You only need to tick the offer when booking your flight, and this form will be forwarded to a 24/7 taxi hire service. You will be contacted by Taxi Gorod within five to ten minutes to elaborate some details and clarify the cost of the service. You can buy a transfer to any destination

Workers of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise’s Magnetitovaya mine are currently busy mastering the company’s only hydrohammer produced by Rammer, a Finnish company. All the employees dealing with this new piece of equipment underwent a three-week training session. The new hydrohammer is rather powerful and is fitted with an efficient vibration absorbing system; it is expected to enhance the productivity of Magnetitovaya’s grinding and sorting facility by 150% and to make work much less strenuous. Buying a new hydrohammer for the mine is part of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and