The administration of Blagoveshchensk invites its residents to take an active part in the "Clean City" Campaign. The purpose of the traditional events is to clean the city of garbage on the eve of the winter and to attract attention of people, enterprises and organizations to the issues of municipal improvement.

On Tuesday, October 22, six servicemen from an airborne division were killed in an accidental explosion at a training ground in western Russia, defense officials said.

At least seven people were killed on Monday after a suspected female suicide bomber detonated an explosive device on a bus in the southern city of Volgograd.

Divers have found allegedly the largest splinter of the meteorite, which fell in the Chelyabinsk Region in February 2013.

Kostroma administration is working on promotion of the touristic brand of “Magic Kostroma the birthplace of Snegurochka". As part of collaboration with Google it reached a preliminary agreement on the creation and placement of Google Doodle (funny celebratory version of Google home page logo) Snegurochka.

National Fine Arts Museum of Sakha coupled with Arctic State Institute of Art and Culture implemented the project of a museum virtual tour. The project gives an opportunity at any time to get acquainted with unique collection of arts.

Rybinsk pie baked for the celebration of the City Day was recognized as the official record of Russia. This unanimous decision was made by the editorial board of "Russian Book of Records".

Some restrictions related to security will come into effect in Sochi during the Olympics from January 7 to March 21, 2014. In particular, controlled areas will be set up in Sochi – for regular people and vehicles it would be possible to get there only after police control.

About a score of drives were renamed in Moscow. Now they have names associated with the history of this place, or the names of famous people.

The deputies of the Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Citizens’ Rights of Primorye Parliament examined the open letter of Honored Medical Doctor of Russia Anatoly Belyayev, who proposed to switch Vladivostok time zone from MSK +7 to MSK +6.