Satellite system of global navigation GLONASS starts working on Russian territory by the end of 2007.

Russian scientists have restarted well drilling over the biggest ice-glazed reservoir on our planet - relict lake Vostok in Antarctica

Head of Russian Federal space agency RosCosmos recently announced that Russia wouldn’t have a joint programme of Moon exploration with The United States.

Russia leads on the market of space launches, sharing 45% of it, says the head of Russian Federal Space Agency. However, experts say that Russia may lose the title of leading space power without serious modernization of the space industry.

Yesterday Lu Guchan, Chinese ambassador in Russia, and Efim Pivovarov, rector Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) have signed an agreement on establishing the Confucius Institute on the base of RSUH.

Russian science ship “Academic Alexander Karpinsky”, which traveled to Antarctica from Saint Petersburg to perform full-scale experiments within “World Ocean” programme, has reached the Sea of the Commonwealth of Antarctica.

Nonprofit partnership “Mir Nauki” (World of Science) has recently announced about establishing new Russian science award – “Symbol of Science” medal. This annual award will go to citizens of Russia and other countries, as well as Russian and international think-tanks for harmonious combination of rational, esthetic and ethic basis and creation and realization of ideal images of scientists and science either in scientific activities or popularizing science.

International orbital laboratory “Spektr-Rentgen-Gamma” (Spectrum-X-Gamma), which is scheduled for launch in 2011, will help scientists to discover 100 thousands of various galaxies and solve the mystery of the dark matter, reported the official from the Institute for Space Research during the “High-Energy Astrophysics: State-of-the-art and Perspectives 2006” conference.

Russian communication satellite “Meridian”, which was recently put on its orbit, works in normal mode, says Russian space agency official.

Today the oldest nuclear reactor of Eurasia, located at Russian science centre “Kurchatov Institute” celebrates its 60th anniversary.