Dwellers of the Karelian settlement Kulikovo bordering on Leningrad Region have once again stood up against opening a cast mine near Yastrebinoe Lake.

Fisherman Yury Rudnitsky caught a gigantic pike weighing 12 kg and 1,2 meters long in Karasevo Lake of the Chelyabinsk Region.

A monument of federal value - the Borozdins’ manor, built in the late 17th century is decaying in the Pskov Region.

Not far from Lake Svetloyar (Nizhniy Novgorod region) archeologists have found remains of the medieval Russian settlement preliminary dated to the 14th-early 15th centuries.

Ulyanovsk Region has turned to be in the first group in the rating of forest management among the federal subjects of Russia.

If you want to celebrate New Year's Eve on Moscow streets, you should prepare for the sober holiday, as the authorities decided to ban the sale of alcohol in the city centre on New Year's Eve night.

A Japanese garden may appear on Konny Island in the center of Irkutsk, in the basin of River Angara.

Two days running Moscow and a number of other cities are paralyzed by the huge amount of snow. The first serious snowfall of this winter was marked by record-breaking traffic jams.

Criminal case was launched against an inspector of a metal scrap-yard in Chebarkul (Chelyabinsk Region) on December, 21st, 2011.

On December 20, thousands of Christmas firtree markets opened in all Russian cities and big villages. Only in Moscow there are more than 300 places to buy a natural green tree.