В 11.00 в МУ «Информационно-аналитический центр» (ул. Елькина, 45) пройдет пресс-конференция, посвященная открытию фотоконкурса «В кадре 74». В 12.00 в «IBC Центре» (ул. Энгельса, 65) начнется пресс-конференция «Итоги выборов 4 декабря 2011» . В 12.00 в пресс-центре информационного агентства «Интерфакс-Урал» (пр.Ленина, 55а) состоится пресс-конференция первого заместителя руководителя Главного Управления лесами Челябинской области Виктора Блинова на тему: «Заготовка и реализация новогодних елей в Челябинской области. Штрафы за незаконные порубки».

7-8 декабря в Челябинске пройдет форум финансовых директоров «Управляя развитием».

The Urals-based banks are coming up with the preliminary reports for their performance in the year 2011. According to Bank Koltso Urala’s Retail Business Department experts, the bank’s term deposit portfolio currently exceeds 11bn RUR, the bank’s press service reports. This figure has actually increased by over 3bn RUR since the beginning of the year, while the number of customers’ deposits rose by a few times; the private individuals’ term deposits portfolio went up by 5.98%, or 680m RUR, in November alone. Up to four hundred customers open deposits at the bank every day.

The auction aimed at selling the assets of Avto-Land that took place on November 29, 2011 had to be declared invalid because no bids had been submitted. Among the assets put up to auction were tires, spare parts for Jaguar, Ford, Mazda, and Volvo makes, and tools, materials, and equipment for car repair. The opening bid for the lot was set at 8.82m RUR. The applications for taking part in the new auction can be submitted starting December 5, 2011.

The French chain store Auchan is planning to open its classic hypermarkets in six Russian cities in 2012, Auchan-Russia’s Director-General Jean-Pierre Germaine told reporters. According to Kommersant, Yekaterinburg is not on the list. ‘We are planning to open six classic hypermarkets and we also keep working on our current projects that haven’t been completed yet. An average Auchan City store reaches about 150,000 locals,’ Germaine said. He explained that stores would be opened in Nizhniy Novgorod, Ryazan, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Volgograd, and Rostov-on-Don.

Kommersant came up with a rating of Russian banks that shows an increase in these banks’ financial performance figures compared with the beginning of the year. The newspaper’s research took into account the data provided by 953 Russian banks. The Urals-based VUZ Bank was featured among the country’s top 100 banks in terms of loans volume and among the top 200 banks in terms of deposit portfolio volume and undistributed profit volume. In terms of retail loans, the bank was given the 88th position in the rating. The bank’s private individuals lending portfolio came to 5.118bn RUR on October 1,

According to head of Sverdlovsk Region Clinical Hospital 1 Intensive Care Department Alexander Levit, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s stay in the intensive care unit is over: all the necessary measures needed to stabilize his health have been taken. No life-threatening complications have been diagnosed, and he is actually improving. ‘The Governor’s further convalescence depends on the organization of the effective rehabilitation period. Among the options that medical men offered, Alexander Misharin’s relatives chose one of specialized trauma clinics in Germany. This establishment is a global