Archeographer Boris Morozov has found out the most ancient Russian sample of a book autograph, Infox.ru informs.

The amount of the time zones on the territory of Russia can decrease from 11 to 9 already on the March, 28. The Russian government considers such a measure appropriate, instead of the citizens living in some of the regions, who don’t share this opinion.

Russia and India are likely to form a joint venture focusing on exploration and uranium mining, the head of the Russian atomic corporation Rosatom said.

The tenants of the houses on the Marshall Zhukov Street on the north-west of Moscow are returning to their flats, after they were evoked today because more 900 shells of the Second World War time had been detected in the street.

Russian scientists developed a technology for automatic assembly of nanoparticles by means of protein molecules, acting like “robots on an assembling line”.

A Soviet rover on the lunar surface, the Lunokhod 2, has been found on the Moon this week by NASA. The Lunokhod 2 was lost 37 years ago and nobody hoped to find it.

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, a Japanese car maker, currently building a plant in the Kaluga region conjointly with PSA Peugeot Citroen, plans to start Russian car production in autumn.

The Grand Prix of the 15th Russian Animation Festival in Suzdal went to the cartoon film Winter by Alexei Alexeyev.

Experts of the underwater archeological society "Memory of the Baltic Sea" have started to investigate the Novgorod merchant vessel.

Yesterday an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Luxembourg came to force. New regulation provides opening of the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Luxembourg.

Russia is famous all over the world for its ballet and circus traditions as well as for its folk songs and dances, and everyone who comes to Russia wants a chance to see the live performance of Russian theatre. But many people who come to Russia for a short-term visit only know about the Bolshoi theatre, where tickets are usually hard to get and attendance fees for top performances (such as “Swan Lake” or “the Nutcracker”) can be quite high.

Renting an apartment in Russia, especially in Moscow, is a budget alternative of living in a hotel. Suburban mini-hotels are good as well for such purposes. The market of apartments for rent is very rich in various offers in both Russian capitals. The variety of the prices is considerable and even disorients at the first. But nevertheless it is possible, and you can do it promptly after spending some time surfing thematic sites. But maybe you do not want to spend your time surfing web-sites in Russia. If you are interested in the short term renting (and most probably you are), we can recommend you...

Some people prefer spending their vacations and holidays in the hotels on the first line with nothing to do except sunbathing, swimming and lying next to swimming pool with a cocktail. Some evenings they devote to sightseeing excursions. Others cannot be satisfied with it and cannot imagine their leisure without breaking the routine of life, getting new skills and acquisition knowledge and the contact with nature, of course. There are no precise definitions of the adventure tourism, but it includes all that want the people who is bored by the hotels on the seashore. There is even no unified conception of what such tours should include, but no doubt, Russia is a wide field for activities and experiments in this type of tourism.

Russian physicists developed and tested a technique for making polymethylmethacrylate (known under trade name Plexiglas) surfaces smoother in nanometer and subnanometer range. The technique involves exposure to vacuum ultraviolet radiation with wavelength of about 124 nanometers.

His brilliant performance of the role of Nikolai Rezanov in Alexey Rybnikov’s rock opera is still considered unsurpassed. Right after premiere Karachentsov became one of the leading actors of Lenkom Theatre.