Today, February 11, the Central Election Commission announced a break in the meeting until 10.00 February 12. Tomorrow, February 12, the commission expects the receipt of the remaining two original protocols from district election commissions based on the voting results in the second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine.

521 1 min. ... Nikkei 225 9963.99 (+31.09) CAC-40 3621.27 (+8.51) FTSE 100 5120.75 (+8.91) DAX 30* 5519.96 (+21.7) DJIA* 10006.19 (-52.45) NASDAQ Composite* 2141.57 (-9.3) *At 19.36. According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant Ukraine" No. 24 dated 02/11/2010, p. 6

Elections Four out of seven candidates for the early elections of the mayor of Ust-Ilimsk were able to complete the registration procedure. According to the press service of the regional election commission, three self-nominated candidates dropped out of the election fight. The Territorial Election Commission refused to register pensioners Pavel Yakimenko and Zakvan Kanafiev.

Today, February 11, in the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, a hearing will begin in the criminal case of Alexander Volkonsky (Shakhov) on charges of organizing a scam for the Elite Center company. According to the report, the premises allocated for the hearings in the case of Alexander Volkonsky are not able to accommodate everyone.

President of the Russian Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev about the team's chances at the Olympics // Interview President of the Russian Olympic Committee LEONID TYAGCHEV refused to predict how many medals the Russian team will win in Vancouver and what place it will take in the team competition.

Silvinit has entered into direct contracts for the supply of potassium chloride directly with enterprises producing complex mineral fertilizers, the company announced yesterday. Silvinit is increasing potassium supplies to the Russian market in accordance with the FAS order dated January 11 of this year.

How a Kommersant correspondent managed to add his modest torch to the full bowl of Vancouver fire // Out of the game with Andrey Kolesnikov A Kommersant special correspondent begins a series of reports from Vancouver with the story of how he carried the Olympic torch and what happened to him in connection with it. This whole story began six months ago, when the IOC allocated a quota in the Olympic relay for a Russian journalist.

Together with the hand of a sobering-up patient The Novosibirsk Regional Court rejected the cassation appeal of former employee of the sobering-up center Viktor Gudimov. At the end of last year, the court of the Sovetsky district of Novosibirsk admitted that a police sergeant broke the patient’s arm, and sentenced him to three years probation.

The Government of the Russian Federation submitted a report to the State Duma on the implementation of anti-crisis measures in 2009. According to the document, almost the entire amount of funds allocated for these purposes has been exhausted. Expenditures to support various sectors of the economy amounted to 1.213 trillion rubles.

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Developing countries overtook developed countries in terms of M&A transactions for the first time The volume of mergers and acquisitions in developing countries since the beginning of the year for the first time exceeded the volume of M&A involving companies from developed economies in Europe and the United States. Global leadership in emerging M&A markets has been provided primarily by companies from Latin America.

One of the largest advertisers in Ukraine, the Kyivstar company, has changed its advertising partner. The tender for servicing the company was won by the Mediaege:cia agency (part of the WPP group), said agency director Yulia Baglay. The tender was announced in the spring of 2009. For the last few years, the company's advertising has been placed by the MPG agency. "Telecriticism"

Rosstat will begin counting it from the 2008 level In February 2010, Rosstat will make adjustments to the methodology for calculating industrial production indices. Although the recalculation, which is also associated with the introduction of Rosstat’s new industrial classifier in January, has not yet been completed, the head of the department, Alexander Surinov, has already stated that this procedure can add 0.1-0.2% to industrial growth.

About the Rolex Mentor & Protege Program ...says Alexey Tarkhanov Every two years, Rolex spends $700,000 on a strange cause that has fundamentally nothing to do with what it is famous for: watches. Rolex is not a company that is overly concerned with PR. It is closed and uncommunicative, its heads do not give interviews, and journalists have only recently been allowed into its factories.