The law on mandatory competition among scientific workers before their recruitment came into force in Russia.

2014 was the second warmest year in the northern hemisphere during the entire history of regular meteorological observations since 1891.

Ten launches are to be carried out under the flight test program: five launches of the light carrier rocket and five launches of the heavy one.

The experts of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the town of Chernogolovka of Moscow Oblast jointly with the Austrian company are developing an environmentally friendly hydrogen engine for boats, which is planned to be tested in 2016 on the lake near Vienna.

The launches of Russian carrier rockets “Proton” from the Baikonur cosmodrome may stop in 2025. This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Investment and Development of Kazakhstan (Kazkosmos) Erkin Shaimagambetov.

The project “Noah's Ark” for formation of a depositary for storage of biomaterials will be created in the scientific and technological valley of the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov.

Russia has put a record number of spacecrafts into orbit in 2014 – a total of 80, including 31 public use satellites, five commercial ones and 44 small satellites.

A total of about 30 launches of spacecrafts of carrier rockets from different cosmodromes are scheduled for 2015.