The Japanese company Fujitsu announced the release of the most compact laptop in the world weighing only 580 grams. According to the company, the novelty will go on sale in mid -June of this year. First, the laptop will be offered to corporate clients, and it will appear only in the fall on the shelves of stores where it will be able to purchase it. The size of the portable computer is only 17 by 13 centimeters, the thickness is 26.5 millimeters.

On May 7, 2007, the first university endument was registered in St. Petersburg - a specialized fund for the creation and management of target capital. The Fund of the European University in St. Petersburg (EUSPB Foundation) was created as part of the general strategy of the university aimed at developing mutually beneficial cooperation with business, the EUSPB press service reports .

In the southeast of the Japanese Island of Honsey in the city of Nagakute, a former member of a criminal group who killed one policeman and wounded three more people yesterday, including his children, has been holding his wife in hostages for 18 hours, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Japanese media. As it became known, yesterday a girl called into the salvation service, who said that her father had taken a gun and was behaving menacingly.

Today, a draft amendments to the Moscow City Duma will be made to the Moscow City Duma, which establishes punishment for political propaganda and the activities of socio-political organizations in schools and universities. The administration of educational institutions for this is proposed to be fined up to 100 thousand rubles, Kommersant writes. The ban on the creation and activity of socio-political movements and parties is also contained in the current law on education.

On Thursday, at about 6 a.m. local time in the area of ​​the village of Sergeyevka, the minibus Toyota Hais, who was in Tugorsk, was in a serious accident, Deuta.ru reports. The driver, driving a vehicle, fell asleep at the wheel. As a result, the minibus moved from the roadway, “crashed” into a concrete fence and “lay down” on the side. Of the seven people in a minibus, five were injured. All of them with injuries of varying severity, they were hospitalized.

May 18, 145 countries of the world celebrate International Museum Day, reporting news agencies. In the capital of Russia, more than two dozen storage facilities will open their doors to visitors and will work until midnight. This year, St. Petersburg will join the “Night in the Museum” campaign tomorrow. Everyone will be able to go to the main expositions of the capital's museums for free today, make daytime pedestrian excursions and meet midnight in two estates and six museums.

The resignation of the Wolfovitsa was said in a statement by the board of directors of the World Bank, widespread on Thursday evening (Friday Night of MSC), AR reports. As Polit.ru previously reported, the President of the World Bank Paul Wolfovitz will resign from June 30. The Board of Directors was accepted by the voluntary resignation of Paul Wolfovitsa after three days of the meeting. "The decision comes into force with the end of the financial year on June 30, 2007.

Today in Samara, during the marsh of disagreements, six people were detained, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of the representative of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. Now they are delivered to the police department, where administrative protocols are drawn up. In recent days, under a variety of pretexts, the authorities delayed many organizers and potential participants in the march.

US President George Bush announced today the intention of the White House to achieve a compromise with Congress on the issue of financing a military operation in Iraq, Radio Svoboda reports. Earlier, Bush imposed a veto on the law adopted by Congress, which provides for the withdrawal of the American contingent from Iraq until April 2008. The American Congress could not overcome the veto.

The Board of Directors of the World Bank (WB) decided to express gratitude for the work and dismiss the Wolfovitsa from the post of head of the WB Paul because of the scandal with his mistress. “The decision comes into force with the end of the financial year on June 30, 2007. The Board of Directors immediately begins the process of appointing a new president, ”the press release of the Board of Directors of the WB says.

Leonid Ruzov Today, May 18, on Friday, at four in the afternoon, in Samara, people will begin to gather on the fountains on Lenin Avenue. At five, a march of disagreements will begin, which will pass through the city center, along Osipenko Street, to a rook on the embankment. That is, they must get together and go. Firstly, they finally allowed them. Secondly, "disagreed"-people themselves are decisive, only really irresistible power can prevent it. I would like to do without it.

On May 16, at a meeting with members of the Public Chamber, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that human rights organizations did not react to conflict around the transfer of a “bronze soldier” in Tallinn. This statement of the president was reproduced in the news of all -Russian television channels, repeatedly repeated by TV presenters and commentators. Meanwhile, as the human rights center "Memorial" resembles, this is not true.

** Cold world ** It is no secret to anyone that relations between Russia on the one hand and Western countries - the European Union and the United States - spoil for a long time. The question that worried Russian and foreign media in recent months, especially after the west of the West of the Munich speech of President Putin, was only whether the new “cold war” of Russia with the West has already begun and how far it would go.

The leaders of the “other Russia”-the head of the OGF Harry Kasparov, the head of the public movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev, as well as Eduard Limonov-could not get on Friday to the flight to Samara, due to the fact that their flights caused serious suspicions. This was stated in the press service of the transport police on Friday, reports Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax.

At the fifth stage of the Grand Prix on rhythmic gymnastics in Minsk-Grand Prix Belswissbank on May 19-20, all the leaders of the Russian national team will perform-Olympic champion-2004 Alina Kabaeva, European champion Vera Sesina and world champion 2005 Olga Kapranova. This was reported by the Sports Information Agency "All Sports" , referring to the head coach of the Russian national team Irina Wiener.