Teachers who proposed to revive hobby groups popular in Soviet times, have been supported by deputies of Moscow City Duma.

A new draft bill on the governmental funding of education in private schools and kindergartens will be discussed in the Russian State Duma. The document was approved in the first reading November 17.

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania confirmed that Native Americans came from Altai Territory, southern Siberia.

The head of Skolkovo Fund Victor Vekselberg announced that Russian innovation center would send first tourists to space in three years.

Russian scientists have found a strange 3-million-year-old bacillus in permafrost of Mammoth Mountain. This microorganism influences life expectancy of animals.

On January 15, Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that's being stuck in the Earth orbit for two months, finally has fallen into the southern areas of the Pasific Ocean.

“Fundamentals of religious cultures and secular ethics” has been introduced as a new subject in 57 schools in the South Urals. It will soon become a compulsory subject studied at primary education level.

Scientists from Novosibirsk are going to create genetic passports for plants in order to restore endangered species.

Russian student Lev Arzamassky won a gold medal at the World Physics Olympiad, which took place in Lombok, Indonesia.

The Board of Health published the territorial program of state guarantees for “rendering free medical aid in 2012”.