Russia will start building an unmanned base on the Moon after 2025, as a hit of a big Russia's lunar program.

Over half of Russians are convinced it is impossible to receive a good education in Russia today, while one third say the quality education in Russia goes without saying.

Russia's crew members of the International Space Station, Gennady Padalka and Yury Malenchenko, completed a six-hour spacewalk having carried out all planned tasks.

As of the year 2012/13, the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg introduces a new MA programme in Political Journalism. The students will specialise in political consultancy, analysis, and blogging.

A Russian neutron detector on board NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity was activated on Friday to start searching for any water along the rover's path.

A teenager from Ulyanovsk took an “ownerless” bag from a passenger minibus and later found it contained a rare selenium isotope worth at least $300,000.

Contact has been made with an Indonesian telecommunications satellite which went missing after a failed launch on the Russian rocket last week

Briz-M booster failed to bring two satellites into a calculated transition orbit after the launch late on Monday, Russian Roscosmos space agency reported yesterday.

Russia's Roscosmos space agency has announced a ten-million ruble ($300,000) tender for a Moon rocket design.