All power is in the hands of the Kaczynski twins Today a new government will be sworn in in Warsaw. It will replace the cabinet of ministers who resigned last Monday and was headed by Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz for eight months. For the first time since 1989, a prime minister in Poland is leaving at the peak of popularity, which became one of the catalysts for the change of power, now concentrated in one family - in the hands of 57-year-old twin brothers Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

The capital of the RTS Stock Exchange will increase at least tenfold As part of the ongoing restructuring of the RTS group, the capital of RTS Stock Exchange OJSC will be at least 800 million rubles, which is ten times higher than now, RTS President Oleg Safonov told reporters yesterday. At the same time, the structure of the exchange's shareholders will also change. According to Mr.

Renault hopes to win at home The battles of the best teams in the world, which died down on the football fields of Germany, will remain the main topic of discussion for a long time. The huge audience success that accompanied the FIFA World Cup exceeded the wildest expectations of the organizers. All matches, without exception, were completely sold out, and it seemed like the whole world was watching the dramatic final match.

During the G-8 summit, no one will sail, fly or drive to St. Petersburg St. Petersburg was empty before the G8 summit. On the streets of the historical center these days there are noticeably more tourists than townspeople. Traffic jams have practically disappeared from the central highways of the city.

The solution to global energy problems lies in wide access for corporations to the development of energy resources A year ago, Russia invited its G8 partners to discuss global energy security issues. Will the summit opening this week help strengthen energy security for humanity? Humanity has not yet developed a common understanding of what the term “energy security” means.

Zinedine Zidane was unable to repeat, live on Canal+, the words that Italian national team defender Marco Materazzi told him in the World Cup final. Zidane only clarified that the Italian did not call him a terrorist and had nothing against the racial background of the Frenchman of Algerian origin, but at the same time hinted that they were talking about the relatives of the captain of the French national team.

Russia's largest public IPO will take place today - the placement of Rosneft shares. Rosneft today will officially announce the price of its shares, which its main shareholder, the state-owned Rosneftegaz, is placing on the London and domestic stock exchanges. Earlier, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed a decree according to which 14.3% of Rosneft shares will be sold on the market.

The authorities of Chechnya and Dagestan argue about the origin of terrorists Another major operation against the separatists was carried out yesterday by security services in southern Russia. This time the fighting took place on the border of Dagestan and Chechnya, where on Thursday night 13 bandits were killed at once, and five more were detained.

Full-scale hostilities are underway in the Middle East A new war in the Middle East is gaining momentum. Yesterday, Israeli aircraft carried out a powerful strike on Lebanon. The rockets were fired at the homes of members of the Shiite movement Hezbollah, located in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The runway of the international airport in the Lebanese capital was destroyed. Its work was stopped, and planes were redirected to Larnaca airport in Cyprus.

Gazprom and E.ON named the basic conditions for a future major deal Gazprom and the German concern E.ON, which have been negotiating an asset exchange for almost two years, yesterday publicly announced the basic terms of the deal.

Menshov won the most difficult stage of the Tour de France The eleventh stage of the Tour de France multi-day race, with a maximum difficulty climb to the Col de Tourmalet mountain (2115 m above sea level) and an assault on four peaks of the first category, ended with the victory of the Russian Denis Menshov. He won the finishing spurt in a fight with two Americans - Levi Lephaimer and Floyd Landis.

On the screens - the British education comedy "Driving Lessons" This film turned out to be the leader of the Moscow festival - it received the special jury prize, the Russian critics prize and the audience award. And co-star Julia Walters, a respected British actress (who was nominated for an Oscar for the first time in 1986 for Educating Rita, and in 2000 for her role in Billy Elliot), graced the list holders of the Silver George.

An independent region will remain without Serbs Yesterday, the UN Security Council gave the green light to direct negotiations between the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo to determine the final status of the region. The Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari, announced that they will begin in Vienna at the end of July - most likely on the 24th.

The government approved the government borrowing program Journalists never had a chance to hear what Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov thought about the program of internal and external borrowings proposed by the Ministry of Finance and approved at yesterday's government meeting. But a high-ranking government official said that Mr. Fradkov asked the country’s chief financier to pay special attention to “the creation of development institutions” and to export loans.

Owners of extreme rides will be brought to justice in Sochi The Sochi authorities are concerned about a new problem that has suddenly arisen on the resort's beaches - ensuring the safety of vacationers who are actively invited to extreme entertainment. The list of such entertainment fits into a list of two points: riding a jet ski and various inflatable “bananas” and “tablets” towed by high-speed boats; and flying on a parachute, also attached by a cable to a small boat.