The graduate student of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) Kirill Afanasyev designed the project of the assembly that recycles the waste of heating power plants (CHPP) into sodium salt, water, and raw materials for glass manufacturing.

China is still a major market for short-pulse lasers, the technology for which was developed by the Russian scientists in the USA, and that will be produced by the nanocentre "Technopark" (Troitsk, Russia).

The main European scientific forum on catalytic chemistry, International Congress on Catalysis will for the first time in 20 years take place in Russia in 2015, Kazan was chosen as the place of the event.

The first space launch in 2013 is pre-scheduled for February 5: the carrier rocket "Soyuz-2.1a" with the upper stage rocket "Fregat" is to put six low-orbit communication satellites "Globalstar-2" into orbit.

The election of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) will be held on 29 May this year on the General Assembly of RAS.

Eleven Nobel Laureates will be the plenary speakers in the upcoming summer of 2013 in St. Petersburg, at the largest international scientific forum in the history of modern Russia of the 38th Annual Congress of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.

Russian largest Internet company Yandex concluded an agreement with the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), and became an associate member of CERN openlab.

The Ministry of Education and Science sent the approved list of 100 books to the regions.

The Ministry of Education and Science will make up a list of 100 Russian films before the new school year.

Kaspersky Lab launched an updated grant program for young scientists on research projects implementation in the field of information security. The receipt of applications is already open.