The Orange took power. The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc received the most tasty morsels Yesterday in Ukraine they officially announced the creation of a parliamentary coalition consisting of three “orange” forces - the Socialist Party, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the presidential bloc “Our Ukraine”. The coalition agreement was signed by 239 deputies from three parties with the required minimum of 226 votes.

The Russian gas monopolist yesterday announced a deal that brings it closer to its goal of selling raw materials to end consumers in the British market. Gazprom's wholly owned English "granddaughter" - Gazprom Marketing and Trading (GM&T) - acquired part of the retail business of Pennine Natural Gas Ltd. As stated in the official statement of the concern, work will soon begin with Pennine Natural Gas Limited to transfer a portfolio of about 600 clients to Gazprom Marketing and Trading accounts.

The Federal Service for Financial Markets decided to hurry up with the creation of a special compensation fund for shareholders. Speaking yesterday at the conference “Financial Market Forecasts,” Deputy Head of the Federal Financial Markets Service Sergei Kharlamov announced that by the end of the year a bill could be ready that would provide for the payment of compensation to private citizens who have invested their funds in mutual funds.

Jerusalem may turn into Sderot Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert named the first Jewish settlements to be evacuated from the West Bank as part of the second stage of unilateral disengagement with the Palestinians. There are four of them - Shiloh, Beit El, Ofra and Kedumim. They are surrounded by Palestinian territories and do not touch the “Green Line”, that is, the border of Israel before the start of the 1967 war with the Arabs.

The Ghana national team made the Czechs the third wheel The knockout matches at the World Cup began even before the start of the playoffs. After the third round, one of the three teams in Group E, which undoubtedly deserved a place in the 1/8 finals, had to leave the tournament. The Czech team was unlucky. Karel Brückner's team lost to the Italians - 0:2 and said goodbye to the World Cup: the teams of Ghana and Italy are next.

British Airways (BA) has once again come under investigation by regulators. It is accused of artificially inflating prices - since May 2004, BA has introduced additional fees for tickets seven times in response to surges in fuel prices. The company said yesterday that the UK Trade Compliance Authority and the US Department of Justice were investigating the possibility of price fixing that may have involved British Airways and other unnamed companies.

The government of Kabardino-Balkaria is headed by Andrey Yarin The Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria yesterday overwhelmingly approved 36-year-old Andrei Yarin as Prime Minister of the republic. Mr. Yarin will replace Gennady Gubin, who headed the cabinet for the last two years and resigned a few days ago. Commenting on his departure, Mr. Gubin said that it was time to give way to younger and more energetic managers.

The USA played a tragic role in the events of 1956 Yesterday, US President George W. Bush, who arrived on an official visit to Hungary, recalled the events of 1956. He laid flowers at a black granite monument on Budapest's Kossuth Square dedicated to the victims of the suppression of the anti-communist uprising by Soviet troops. It is believed that about 2.6 thousand Hungarians and about 600 Soviet soldiers and officers died then.

Ancient Greek deities of the underworld continue to emigrate into space The International Astronomical Union has assigned official names to two recently discovered moons of Pluto. Now Nix and Hydra are orbiting at a distance of 44 thousand km from the ninth planet. The first satellite was given the name of the ancient Greek goddess of the night, the second was named in honor of the nine-headed mythological monster that guarded the underground kingdom of Hades (Pluto).

Judges are asked to publish income statements annually While Vladimir Putin yesterday in the Supreme Court building was testing the information system of the State Automated System “Justice”, designed to make open the work of the Russian Themis, the Supreme Arbitration Court took care of the openness of the pockets of the judges themselves to the public.

Russians have not yet learned to live in debt It is a little secret that Russia is experiencing a real boom in consumer lending. According to official data, the volume of this market exceeded 1 trillion rubles. Russian banks have already expanded the range of credit programs for the population to such an extent that it is almost impossible to find an area where Russians could not use borrowed funds.

CSTO and EurAsEC summits will protect Minsk from rising gas prices Today, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will become chairman of the CIS Collective Security Council. This post at the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Minsk will be handed over to him on a rotating basis by the President of Russia, the country where the previous CSTO summit was held. The Belarusian capital will also host a summit meeting of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC).

“More than anything else” (Mexico, 2006, Andres Leon Becker and Javier Solar Cortes). The directorial debut of the famous Mexican cameraman Becker and his constant partner Cortez is a nervous melodrama about a single mother and her little daughter who move to a new place of residence in search of a better life. There, their lives really change, largely thanks to one very strange neighbor. “Bookmaker” (Philippines, 2006, Jeffrey Jeturian).

On June 21-22, Minsk hosted a meeting of the statutory bodies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization - the councils of ministers of foreign affairs, defense and committees of secretaries of state security councils. On the 23rd there will be a meeting of the Collective Security Council, that is, a meeting of the six heads of state that are members of the CSTO - Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

The commander of the Latvian armed forces resigned due to the death of two soldiers The commander of the National Armed Forces of Latvia (NLAF), Rear Admiral Gaidis Andrejs Zeibots, submitted his resignation yesterday, which was accepted. He made this decision in connection with a tragic incident during a military exercise, which resulted in the death of two people. On May 15, special forces soldiers made training jumps from a height of 600 meters.