On the 27th of July tens of citizens of the Russian city of Kaliningrad witnessed an UFO. For nearly an hour the unknown silver object hung over the local Blue Lakes.

Three citizens of the Russian city of Chelyabinsk have been accused of plotting a terrorist attack and being members of the extremist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami.

These days St. Petersburg hosts the seventh Sand Sculpture Festival Chisty Rodnik on the beach of the Petropavlovsk Fortress.

European satellite INVISAT has spotted a big oil slick in the Baltic Sea 50 kilometres away from the Russian city of Baltiysk. The slick is moving towards Latvia.

On the 9th of July a largest international armaments exhibition Russian Expo Arms opened in Nizhniy Tagil. Over 400 Russian defence companies will display their best and newest models.

St. Petersburg, which is considered to be the Russia’s cultural capital, has applied to compete to host Eurovision 2009.

Finally Russian ecologists managed to get through to Russian officials and persuaded Prime Minister to move Olympic objects from Grushevy Ridge, bordering the unique biosphere reserve, to another place.

Novosibirsk, the center of Siberia, will become the center of the unique total solar eclipse on August 1st 2008.