A shepherd from the Altai village Kyrlyk claims moral damage compensation from Russian Space Agency (RSA) for a fragment of a rocket launched from Baikonur cosmodrome that fell on his stockyard on February 5, 2008.

On February 27 lama Ole Nydahl started a tour across Russia accompanied by over 300 Buddhists from all over the world. They intend to visit 11 Russian cities.

On 13-23 February 2008 the Russian air carrier Aeroflot, association of chess federations and the Russian chess federation are holding the 7th international chess tournament “Aeroflot Open 2008” in the Russian capital.

On the 14th of February activists of the Russian Orthodox youth movement “Georgievtsy!” intend to mount an Internet protest at St. Valentine’s Day considering it a pagan and commercial celebration that promotes promiscuous sexual relations.

A new universal air proving ground for the Russian Air Forces is being constructed in the south of Russia and will become the largest in the country.

A colony of tropical river and lake dwellers – freshwater jelly-fish – has been found in the Volga River not far from the Rybinsk water reservoir.

The Yekaterinburg research group Stalker and the project Our Ural have made up a rating of the most mysterious places of Ural. The rating is based on a poll and on the frequency with which the places are mentioned in media.