A panther and a leopard of the Gelendzhik zoo have babies. An unusual family appeared in the Safari Park of Gelendzhik.

A new bridge over the Tanara River is commissioned in Vilyuiskiy district of Yakutia at the 459th kilometer of the federal “Vilyui” road. The opening of the bridge made it possible to develop the year-round transport communication between Yakutsk and Vilyuiskiy, Verkhnevilyuiskiy, Nyurbinsky, Suntarsky, Mirninsky and Lensky districts.

Moscow’s Culture Department launches a new project - "Neighborhood. Cultural guide-book". Key elements of the project are maps and cultural guides drawn by culturologists, artists and sociologists with the participation of local residents of several Moscow regions.

An unknown island has been found in the Laptev Sea. It has been named Yaya.

A new extraordinary theme park dedicated to all lovers of Russian fairy tales, opens next summer in Domodedovo district near Moscow, on the territory of "Rus" National Horse Park.

The fate of Lopukhinsky garden is being decided at the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast. RBI holding company went to the court to appeal against decision of the Committee of State Control on Protection of Culture Monuments in Saint-Petersburg to restore Lopukhinsky garden within company’s protected borders.

Archeologists have found ruins of an ancient Christian church and stone cross next to it in the Targim cavin of the Dzheyrah Region of Ingushetia.

Vandals have marred a unique monument of architecture in the Tarnog District: they put drawings over petroglyphs of the Tiunovsky sanctuary.