Religion, in particular – the Orthodox Church, is catching up Russian aviation: a new aircraft of the airline Kaliningrad Avia has been named after metropolitan Kirill, head of Church’s external affairs department of the Moscow Patriarchy.

Some Russian air carriers derogate pregnant women from their rights, according to human rights defenders. A number of airlines compel heavily pregnant women to go through a compulsory medical checkup, and in some cases even do not allow them to go aboard plane.

Russian Pediatric Medical Academy in St. Petersburg is creating a new wonder of the world – it is planned to turn the hospital church into the only ever amber Orthodox church.

After the shocking incident with the 15y.o. Russian teen, correspondents of the Russian newspaper Tvoy Den (Your Day) organized an experiment at the airport in the city of Perm and without any obstacles repeated the boy’s path to a plane getting ready to take off.

According to The Independent, the Olympics-2014 has become a handy reason for creation of a comfortable Sochi resort for Russian tycoons. It is planned to spend nearly £3 billion on constructing an artificial archipelago shaped like Russian mainland.

In the framework of events linked with the year of China in Russia Hong-Kong Week takes place in Moscow and is going to be the first wide-scale presentation of not only business opportunities but also the culture of this region.

A 15-year-old Russian teen Andrey Scherbakov has committed the most unprecedented flight in the history of Russian aviation: he flew a distance of 1300 kilometres (from the Russian city of Perm to Moscow) inside a wing of Boeing-737.

At the International Business-Aviation Exhibition Jet Expo-2007 that took place in Moscow September 19-21, the company Airbus presented a new business-class jet A318 Elite. The liner belongs to the Swiss business air carrier Complux.

Fellows of the Southern scientific centre of Russian Academy of Sciences seriously worry about possible demolition of the medieval fortresses located in the zone of mass building the area of Krasnaya Polyana planned as part of preparation to the Olympics-2014 in Sochi.

Meinl Airports International (MAI) has purchased 100% of shares of Mukhino Airport in Ulan-Ude (the capital of the Republic of Buryatia in the RF) and has become the first foreign company ever to buy an airport in Russia. The deal is estimated at US$24 million.