Postgraduate students from Russia and Belarus have discovered a new comet - it is considered the brightest of the last decade. In a year it may be going past the Sun.

Russian ophtalmologists from Kuzbass created unique lenses to speed up the process of post-burn eye recovery.

First Russia's satellite designed and constructed by a private company will be launched next year, Dauria Aerospace head Mikhail Kokorich told RBK Daily.

The 2nd Slavic Integration Forum visits Russia's Tambov in October 2012. The agenda includes Russia's integration with Eastern Europe and a joint NGO association with Ukraine.

One of Russia's oldest living Professors of Law, Yury Tolstoy is celebrating his 85th birthday today.

On Monday, a Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket left off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, carrying a European weather satellite.

An international expedition in Russia's Yakutia republic has found the "living cells" of a mammoth.

Moscow State University placed only 116th, while St. Petersburg State University is on 253rd place in the annual QS World University Rankings

A research expedition of Russian scientists to a group of unnamed islets of Shikotan Island of Kuril Islands has culminated in giving of them the name of an outstanding Russian scientist Sergei Kapitsa who had recently passed away.

The Skolkovo scientists developed a new autopiloting system for cars. The system, $2000 worth, will recognise obstructions, people, and receive the precise GPS data from GLONASS.