The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development summed up the results of an online contest which was organized to celebrate the bank’s 20th anniversary. For six months, the UBRD promotional website was available to all users, who could keep track of the bank’s anniversary events and win prize points by answering quiz questions and taking part in mini-games. Twenty finalists with the month’s highest scores were selected in September 2010; all of these winners will be given sports bags, while the top five participants will also receive a discount card, a traditional prize from the bank’s

United Company RUSAL coordinated unscheduled security checks at its enterprises in order to make sure all the water development facilities are safe, the company’s press service reports. These measures were taken after an accident occurred at Ajka Timfoldgyar plant in Hungary on October 4, 2010; over one million cubic meters of red mud oozed out of a leaking reservoir. The toxic waste flooded 40 sq m of the surrounding territory, including a few settlements in the west of Hungary. Nine people were killed in the accident, with fifty more still in hospital. ‘The facilities of Bogoslovskiy and

Motorola is closing down its Russian office and stops delivering its produce on the Russian market, Gazeta.ru reports. The mobile phone manufacturer’s distributors haven’t commented on the situation so far. Motorola’s decision to leave Russia is most likely related to the company’s wish to reduce its outgoings by giving up on some local markets. According to Mobile Research Group, Motorola is also closing its offices in Africa and Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Ukraine) this year.

The National Rating Agency halted YugraFinance Management Company’ individual reliability rating for the time being and placed the company on a waiting list with Indefinite rating outlook, as the management company’s rating will most likely be reconsidered soon. The Agency reports the need to reconsider the company’s rating arises from the uncertainty of its further business activity status. This uncertainty, in its turn, has to do with the results of an independent audit check of Khanty-Mansiysk Private Retirement Fund, the founder and key customer of YugraFinance. ‘We mean to watch over how