The system of governmental scientific attestation is being created in Russia. This was reported on the website of the Russian government.

As the head of RGS Research Library in St. Petersburg Svetlana Mangutova said on Wednesday, Russian Geographical Society (RGS) will digitize a few thousand books on geography and oceanography and will upload them on its website for public access in early 2014.

Moscow, the capital of Russia, has become 38th on a new list of the 50 best student cities in the world, sharing this place with Adelaide and Los Angeles.

Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve has got a new video of snow leopard. The camera trap, set up in video mode, captured a two-year female snow leopard in all her charm.

An unusual object has been unearthed from the depths of the cultural layer of the 18th century by Vologda archeologists.

Specialists of the Medical Biological Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a conveyor cylindrical vitamin greenhouse for the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), and suggested a concept of a modular vegetable greenhouse for the piloted Martian expedition.