Mathematician Stanislav Smirnov and marine geologist Jorn Thiede are among winners of funding from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. These projects are aimed at attracting eminent scientists from all over the world to Russia.

Russian and Japanese archeologists have discovered about 50 items, belonging to ancient people and made of obsidian, natural volcanic glass.

Several days ago Russian medics started clinical trials of a first Russian anti-HIV DNA-vaccine.

Yaroslav Sergeev, a professor of Nizhny Novgorod State University, named after Nikolay Lobachevsky, was awarded an international Pythagoras Prize in the town of Crotone, Italy.

Russian researchers and their foreign colleagues compiled a catalogue of 183 distant galaxies and suggested several techniques for structural mapping of the Universe on the basis of gamma ray bursts.

Russian neutron telescope LEND, installed on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, helped LCROSS NASA probe to choose a region of Earth’s natural satellite for further bombardment.

Nobel Prize laureate Konstantin Novoselov showed how to make the thinnest material in the world, having a mobile phone, a piece of graphite and a scotch tape.

Over 100 items, belonging to different epochs, were unearthed at the site of a future giant underground parking place.

Russian government has strong intentions to establish 11 state reserve parks and 10 national parks within 10 years.