Sociologist on forecasts of election results Dmitry Bykov spoke live on Kommersant FM with the head of the Public Opinion Foundation, Alexander Oslon, about modern social trends, active and passive people, as well as sociologists’ forecasts regarding the outcome of the presidential election. — Dear friends, our guest at Kommersant FM is Alexander Anatolyevich Oslon, head of the Public Opinion Foundation. That's how you still manage it, right? - Yes.

Investments in the capital of the Ulyanovsk region have increased The volume of investments in fixed capital in the Ulyanovsk region in 2011 reached 61.8 billion rubles. These are the data of Ulyanovskstat, published on its official website. The regional Ministry of Economy notes that “this is the highest figure in all the years of the modern history of the region.” The investment growth index (compared to 2010) was 121% - the highest in the Volga Federal District.

He began to provide loans to small enterprises and individual entrepreneurs The St. Petersburg branch of Alfa Bank increased its total loan portfolio in 2011 by 40%, to $910 million. In 2012, the banking group plans to introduce a representative office of its leasing structure, Alfa Leasing, to the city market.

context President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday signed a decree dismissing the first deputy chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vladimir Khimei. He held this position for almost two years - from March 2010 ( see "Kommersant" dated March 15, 2010 ).

A commuter train crashed into a barrier at a station in the center of Buenos Aires. As a result of the accident, at least 49 people died, more than 600 were sent to hospitals with various injuries, and several dozen people have not yet been rescued from the cars. The accident occurred during the morning rush hour at the Once station in the center of the Argentine capital. According to eyewitnesses, a train consisting of nine cars crashed into the buffer stop of one of the platforms.

Russian fuel assemblies will be supplied to the Swedish nuclear power plant For the first time, Rosatom managed to penetrate the Western European nuclear fuel market for nuclear power plants. TVEL, the fuel company of the state corporation, will begin supplying pilot batches to the Swedish Vattenfall, which owns nuclear power plants of French design.

Naftogaz of Ukraine has denied Gazprom's statements about the unauthorized selection of transit gas, RIA Novosti reports. The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, said on February 22 at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that Ukraine unauthorizedly retained up to 40 million cubic meters on some days in February during severe cold weather. m of transit Russian gas. This caused financial and reputational damage to Gazprom, Mr. Miller said.

Falling in love at work increases productivity and pushes people to self-improvement, opinion poll data show. However, sometimes romantic relationships in the office entail negative consequences, employers say. What are employees willing to do for love? This study was conducted by Head Hunter. Experts tried to find out how office romances affect the work of employees. It turned out that only one in five would not sacrifice anything for love at work.

People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Kasatkina died in Moscow at the age of 87, the actress's son, famous jazzman Alexei Kolosov, told RIA Novosti on February 22. “She had been ill for a very long time and had been mostly in the hospital for the last six months. It is still unknown when the funeral will take place, but it will take place at the Novodevichy cemetery, the same place where dad was buried a few days ago. I myself found out about my mother’s death just an hour ago,” he said.

Construction Ceramics launches a brick factory Kazan NPO Construction Ceramics, the beneficiary of which construction industry market participants call Ak Bars Bank, will produce half of the facing bricks in Tatarstan. Tomorrow the company will launch a new production facility in the Pestrechinsky district with a capacity of 90 million bricks per year. The project costs about 1 billion rubles. financed by Ak Bars Bank.

The operator's LTE network will go live in Moscow in April The first LTE network in Moscow will be launched by Scartel in mid-April (the Yota brand, the blocking stake belongs to Russian Technologies). For now, only mobile Internet will be available to subscribers; Scartel plans to provide voice services after the corresponding smartphones appear on the mass market.

An auction for the right to use the Nepa potassium salt deposit, the largest in Siberia and the Far East, will be held in the second quarter of 2012. This was announced yesterday by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Irkutsk Region with reference to the decision of Rosnedra. “Currently, the subsoil management department for the Irkutsk region has begun preparing the conditions and procedure for holding an auction for the Nepskoye field,” the ministry noted.

The announcement of the verdict against Dmitry Markelov has been postponed to this coming Tuesday. According to Kommersant’s interlocutors in law enforcement agencies, this decision was made by judge Marlis Zalyaev. According to them, the postponement of the date from February 24 to February 28 is due to the fact that Mr. Zalyaev does not have time to complete the text of the verdict. Let us remind you that Mr.

Security forces in Abkhazia are looking for the attackers of the president of the republic, Alexander Ankvab. The state has closed its borders with Russia and Georgia. The assassination attempt on the head of Abkhazia occurred on Wednesday morning; the president’s security guard was killed as a result of the shelling; Ankvab himself was not injured. Abkhazia has closed its border with Russia and Georgia.

The authorities are threatening to withdraw unused land from tenants' use The authorities of Bashkiria plan to tighten legislation regarding tenants of land plots who do not use them for construction. The republic’s leadership hopes to solve the problem of affordable housing, which is driven by a shortage of construction sites, by early withdrawal of land from circulation. Market participants and experts interviewed by Kommersant do not share all the conclusions of the regional leadership.