Russian president mentioned the possibility of banning turnover of incandescent lamps in our country.

The vehicle Ford Focus became the most popular in Moscow “Autostart” agency say. About 87 thousands vehicles ran in Moscow.

Sculpture compositions of Sts Marrieds Pyotr and Fevronia of Murom will be set up for the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness in ten cities of Russia, from Vladivostok äî Yaroslavl.

Latest Baikal studies gave interesting results – scientists now think that the lake is not tens of millions years old, but much younger.

The unique monument to chocolate was unveiled in the town of Pokrov (Vladimir region) on the July, 1. The initiator of such an unusual monument is the administration of the Kraft Foods factory, working in the Russian market for 15 years, which is situated in Pokrov.

Two students were crushed to death by car on 30-th of June. The German citizen, who had driven the car with forbidden high speed, tried to escape from the place of the accident.

The Aeroflot-Don air-company has canceled the flights from Rostov-on-Don to Tel-Aviv because of the ban of the Israel authorities from the south of Russia to Israel. In the circumstances concerned the mentioned air-company will nevertheless return the Russians from Israel and the Israel citizens homeward.

A gigantic statue of St. Andrew the Apostle might be erected in Saint Petersburg.

Average length of heating season in Russia can become 10-15 days shorter within following 50-70 years, Russian scientists believe.

Fyodor Bondarchuk’s film company Art Pictures and Pavel Hudyakov’s company Hudyakov Production have won a contest for the right to use the trademark of the popular social network "Odnoklassniki.ru" as the title for their new movie.

Vladimir Bekhterev, world-famous Russian neurologist, dedicated his life to studying human brain. We owe him many facts about the way we think and react.

The People’s Artist of Russia, famous singer. She performed for almost 60 years. She sang in the Russian Song Choir of the All-Union Radio. Took part in numerous TV programs, was called “National voice of Russia”. Many famous compositors wrote songs especially for her. She created the State Academic Russian Folk Ensemble “Russia”. Her vocals of the songs: “Orenbursky pukhovy platok” (the downy shawl from Orenburg) and “River Volga” are famous all over the word.

Marat Safin was born on the January, 27, 1980 in Moscow in the ethnic Tatar family. Marat is a famous Russian tennis player, former World Number 1 and the elder brother of current World Number 1 WTA player Dinara Safina. Their mother and the first coach Rausa Islanova is also tennis player, USSR champion.

All-Russia Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM) published data on what inventions, made in the 20^th century, Russian people considered to be most important, and what discoveries our fellow nationals were waiting for in the 21^st century.

Guus Hiddink is known as a mentor of the strongest European clubs and select teams. Furthermore, Guus Hiddink is the only one person, who made two different teams through to the semifinal. “Lucky Dutchman” did it with the select teams of Holland (1998) and South Korea (2002).