Kommersant-Ukraine Publishing House continues to increase the audience of one issue and the six-month audience, maintaining leadership among business publications, as evidenced by the results of the 2nd wave of the Print Media Index Regions study in 2010 by TNS Ukraine.

Today, November 24, it became known that the Civic Platform party, which has been ruling in Poland since the end of 2007, won the local elections, which were held on November 21. According to the official voting results released by the State Election Commission, the Civic Platform candidates received the most deputy mandates in local government bodies of all levels - about 7,600, or 16.5%.

Information about the delay in bonus payments to Lokomotiv players is not true, said the president of the Moscow club Olga Smorodskaya. The fact that Lokomotiv players do not receive bonuses was announced at the end of October by the team’s head coach, Yuri Semin. According to him, “many agreements formalized before the start of the season are not respected, including bonuses.” “This is the biggest lie I’ve ever read,” Olga Smorodskaya denied the rumors in an interview with RIA Novosti .

Basketball players' union threatens NBA lockout National Basketball Association (NBA) executive director Billy Hunter announced yesterday that the next season in the world's strongest league will likely be disrupted due to a lockout. The basketball players' union and the owners of NBA clubs have not yet been able to agree on the terms of a new collective agreement. In October, NBA President David Stern announced the demands of club owners.

91 1 min. ... LUKOIL is considering the possibility of expanding cooperation with China, in particular, in such industries as gas chemistry and electric power. This was announced at the Russian-Chinese economic forum by LUKOIL Strategy Director Andrei Gaidamaka, who was quoted by Prime-TASS. In particular, we are talking about expanding the supply of oils for primary and secondary filling of mechanisms, and the joint development of service infrastructure.

Australian dollar** 776.9033 British pound** 1263.3669 Belarusian ruble* 0.0262 Hungarian forint*** 38.9129 Danish krone** 143.6927 U.S. dollar** 793.7700 Euro** 1071.2720 Icelandic krona** 3.6940 Kazakh tenge** 5.3866 Canadian dollar** 776.3403 Norwegian krone** 130.5315 Polish zloty** 270.9132 Russian ruble* 2.5389 Turkish Lira** 537.7871 Czech crown** 43.4065 Swedish krona** 114.1290 Swiss frank** 803.1729 Japanese yen*** 95.2242 *For 10. **For 100. ***For 1000. According to the NBU

According to the Ministry of Economic Development, the production of passenger cars in Russia over 10 months increased by 95.7% to 954 thousand units. The production of passenger cars in Russia in January-October 2010 compared to January-October 2009 increased by 95.7% to 954 thousand cars, says the report of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development on the results of socio-economic development in January-October 2010.

The Gaidar Institute of Economic Policy, as part of a study in Perm on the topic “Transfer of non-core functions to outsourcing in the healthcare system,” decided to create an Institute for the Development of Outsourcing in Russia based on the Perm experience. Let us remind you that in Perm, since 2008, a project has been implemented to outsource the maintenance of ambulances.

Today, November 24, President Viktor Yanukovych, by his decrees, dismissed all chairmen of district state administrations (RGAs) in the city of Kyiv.

262 1 min. ... — Freelance philosopher Sergei Seliverstov described the behavior of North Korea this way: “People are standing at a bus stop, there is a huge puddle nearby, a hooligan boy comes up and asks: “Auntie, uncle, give me 20 kopecks each, I want to eat.” What, won’t you give it to me?” Then the guy picks up a stone and offendedly declares: “Well, then I’ll throw this stone into a puddle right now.” However, in this case, it was the southern neighbor who started the fight in the sandbox.

808 1 min. ... Viktor Ilyukhin believes that the political situation has apparently stabilized, but this may be the calm before the storm. “The housing and communal reform, which has been carried out for 20 years, has reached a dead end. There is more discontent than ever, and the president himself, apparently, was convinced of this when he assembled the State Council on this problem,” the deputy said on Kommersant FM. .

But most operators recorded losses The number of Russians who went on vacation abroad in June-September increased in key tourist destinations, according to foreign statistics collected by Kommersant. But, as the tour operators themselves admit, they failed to make money on the increased demand. The World Football Championship in South Africa, which took place in June and July, was not a notable event either. Kommersant once again analyzed the available statistics in 28 areas for June-September.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has not yet chosen a specific date for his address to the Federal Assembly. This was announced by LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky after a meeting of the head of state with the leaders of parliamentary parties on November 24. “At the meeting, some hinted and asked whether the message would be announced on November 30,” said Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

At its meeting on November 23, the State Duma adopted in the third reading the law “On the federal budget for 2011 and for the planning period of 2012 and 2013.” Before the vote, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin thanked the deputies for their work on the budget. The law provides for the approval of the parameters of the federal budget for 2011-2013, PRIME-TASS reports.

Yesterday, Okskaya Shipyard OJSC launched the first of ten dry cargo ships of the RSD 44 project, which the shipyard will build for Volga Shipping Company OJSC (both companies are part of Vladimir Lisin’s Universal Cargo Logistics Holding).