Russian Birds Conservation Union has chosen the bird of the year for the sixteenth time already.

Russian blogger Vasily Filippov has posted on the Internet photos and videos from the place of sewage pollution of the river Dzyhra its storage reservoir.

Yesterday, January, 26th, results of a sign-in of Nizhni Novgorod dwellers to the president of Russia were aired at the press conference Cheboksary Hydroelectric Power Station: 30 years of trouble.

Monument of industrial architecture - the emblematic water tower in Inta, Komi Republic - is planned to have been restored and turned into a museum by 2014.

Arkhangelsk Region might lose its unique Museum of Folk Art founded at the elementary school in Lyadiny Village of Kargopol District.

Unique monument of federal value – the powder cellar of the Vladivostok Fortress erected in imperial times in Primorski Territory on Russky Island – is collapsing by the minute.

Archaeological works will be started in Samara in spring 2011 in order to establish the date of the city’s foundation.

Unique history monument - Suzunsky Smeltery and Mint, where the famous local currency “Siberian coin” was minted in the 18th -19th cc - will be restored and transformed into a tourist complex in the Novosibirsk Region.

Exact evaluation of the number of birds lost due to December frozen rain and abnormal frosts in central Russia will be possible in spring, Russian ornithologists say.

On January 15 activists of the movement “In protection of the Khimki Forest” undertook an action against building of the toll highway Moscow-Petersburg.