Andrei Konchalovsky’s new film White Nights of Postman Alexey Tryapitsyn will take part in the main program of the Venice Film Festival.

The Mosfilm studio plans to release the restored historical biopic Ivan the Terrible in August, 2014.

Researchers from Irkutsk now know how to make exhaust gases less toxic, to cut fuel consumption, and to make engines more effective.

Russian chemists have created a new technology of mixing metal and polyester fiber. Polyester fiber is the best material for extracting metals from diluted solutions.

The hotel and recreation complex and tourism centre Konstantinovo is to be built in the entry zone of Sergei Esenin Museum-Reserve (Ryazan oblast) in 2016.

Activists of "Civilized City" Association solved the navigation problem in Barnaul. They came up with a single design of street signs based on the traditional form of local pointers of the 70s.

During the international medical forum in China researchers from Yakutia presented new tuberculosis treatment made from reindeer lichen.

Khalaktyrsky Beach tourist visitor center opened on the Pacific coast in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky suburb.

The International expedition to the Aleutian Islands, which consisted of scientists from Russia, the United States, Japan, United Kingdom and Australia, has monitored how sea birds transmitted bird flu virus in the Pacific.

In 2014 Riga is announced to be the cultural capital city of Europe.

Cultural life of the 17th century as well as public life of that epoch in general was at the crossroads, where “the antiquity and the novelty were mixed together”, according to contemporaries.

Lena Pillars is a natural creation, so powerful and incredible that the impression this monument produces is difficult to express in words. The toothed ridge stretching for many kilometers stands on the bank of the Lena River, two hundred kilometers from Yakutsk. These stone giants are half a million years old.

The guests of Kologerasa Bay on Moneron Island are usually shown the remnants of Japanese irrigation system supplying rice fields during the Japanese reign over the island. But the history of the name of the bay is perhaps more interesting than the Japanese engineering structures.

Moneron Island is called “paradise” and “mysterious”. Clear enough why it is “paradise”: just look at the pictures. The island is incredibly beautiful and almost unavailable for people.

Mountains and volcanoes of Paramushir Island look picturesquely from the space, but the view from the land and the sea is no less impressive. It is the most mountainous island of Kurils that is also very rich in volcanoes.

The small rocky Starichkov Island is a reserve in Avachinsky Gulf where 44 breeding colonies of 11 species of seabirds are registered.

Maly Semyachik is a natural monument. Sometimes it is called a stone land or a mountain land.

Oblachnaya Mountain, the highest peak of the Primorsky Territory located in "The Call of the Tiger" park in Chuguyivskiy District, was thought to be magical since the old times.

"The Call of the Tiger" park’s area is 82 thousand hectares wide. There is no territory in Russia equal to this one in species diversity of rare predators and ungulates.

Works by Marianna Verevkina can be rarely found in Russian museum collections. Her creativity is much better represented in European, especially German museums, in particular in Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, Wiesbaden Museum, Murnau Palace Museum and so on.