Two American companies at the Lightfair International exhibition in New York presented a joint project: the world's first commercial lighting devices based on quantum points (as they called semiconductor nanocrystals).

Russian human rights activists filed an official notification to the Moscow City Hall about the rally "against police arbitrariness." This was reported to "Interfax" one of the organizers of the event, activist of the youth human rights movement (MPD) Julia Bashinova. According to her, the action is planned on May 19 on the Triumphal Square. The event is planned to participate 1 thousand people.

The ruling Communist Party of Moldova approved the candidate for the position of new parliamentary speaker Vladimir Voronin, the current president of the republic. He did not discuss candidates for the post of president and prime minister of the Central Communist Party of the Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM). The Communist Party won the parliamentary elections, having received 60 mandates, only 41 mandates won opposition to her three parties.

On May 6, state officials of Israel announced that the rare manuscript papirus, which is about two thousand years, had been discovered. Information about this, according to Sedemitsa.Ru today, was distributed by the Kipa-pic information service and the German agency of Catholic news. The first studies have shown that this partially damaged ancient document with a size of 15x15 cm is written in Hebrew. It contains many names of various people indicating their place of origin.

In the emergency Ukrainian mine "Novodzerzhinskaya" in the morning three miners were saved on Thursday, two dead were found. Thus, the number of victims of the tragedy increased to three people.

The Troika Dialog investment company has released another review, which indicates that the monthly statistics indicate a certain increase in industrial production, but only very few companies note the increase in demand for their products, writes the website of Smart Money magazine.

The new detentions of representatives of the Belarusian opposition ended on Thursday evening in the event of a rally of memory of the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus Yuri Zakharenko unauthorized by the authorities and in support of political prisoners. According to various sources, from several dozen to several hundred people went on Thursday evening on the October Square of Minsk.

Secondary court hearings are held in the United States in the case of a mother of many children, who mutilated her 4-year-old son during a brawl with his civil spouse. The distraught woman used the child as a "baseball bat", at the same time fighting off and attacking her partner. Now the convict is softening the sentence, reports the Fox News TV channel. The 28-year-old Chitory Graham was convicted in 2007 for an attack under aggravating circumstances and other criminal episodes.

The Government of Ukraine is going to sell in 2009 a control package of shares of the second largest air carrier in the country - the company "International Airlines of Ukraine" (MAU). By order of the Cabinet of Ministers of April 28, the text of which is published on a government web portal, this year 61.581% of the MAU shares will be sold, which the state owns through the State Property Fund of Ukraine.

The Ministry of Finance proposes to significantly expand the list of tools for investing pension savings. The current rules do not give managing companies for diversification of pension portfolios, which leads to the low efficiency of their investment and restrictions on the profitability of invested funds, experts surveyed by the publication of Kommersant .

Roskomnadzor approved the order to issue a top three frequency operators 2.1 GHz. Now, according to the newspaper Vedomosti , MTS, Megafon and Vimpelcom can deploy third -generation networks in the subway and inside the buildings. Earlier, each of the operators submitted lists of objects to Roskomnadzor where I would like to launch 3G networks. So, this summer, MTS plans to deploy networks in separate buildings and at the metro station of Moscow.

The lawyer of Mikhail Khodorkovsky Vadim Kluvgant said that the defense of the ex-head of the NK Yukos and the former head of the MFI MENATEP Platon Lebedev does not exclude the possibility of appeal to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. According to Livant, some points of the second criminal case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev may become the subject of consideration in the Constitutional Court.

The test "A" of the Austrian bicycleman Christian Pfannberger, who was playing for the Russian bicycle team "Katyusha" and declared for participation in the legendary multi -day Giro D'Yutalia, gave a positive result for Erythropoietin (EPO). According to the whole sport agency, a positive result in the EPO was shown by a test, taken in the format of out -of -line control on March 19. Christian Pfannberger demanded the opening of the control sample "B", it will be held on May 15.

An American ship used as a floating prison for detained pirates sailed away from the attacked sea robbers. As Rosbalt reports with reference to the Associated Press, the ship tried to attack and capture two pirate boats. The Americans, having completed the maneuver, managed to leave them. The Lewis and Claark ship serves as a place for the temporary detention of pirates. From his side, the detainees are sent to Kenya, where they appear before the law.

The State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov on Thursday confirmed that Russia would take part in the session of the NATO parliamentary Assembly, which will be held from May 22 to 26 in the capital of Norway Oslo. According to ITAR-TASS, the Russian delegation will be headed by the Vice Speaker of the State Duma Lyubov Slisk. “It is clear that today, even despite the steps that the North Atlantic Alliance is taking, we want to continue the dialogue,” Gryzlov explained.