Air temperature above zero degrees should not affect the snow figures. The officials have allocated additional manpower for this purpose.

Varangian guest unearthed in Pskov in 2003 was a sensational find.

Archeologists have found remains of an ancient temple on the slope of Bytkh Mount in Sochi.

Mikhail Nesterov Bashkir State Art Museum will hold Jan Kryzhevsky’s exhibition Ufa — New York — Ufa.

Ministry of Environment Protection of the Chelyabinsk Region will grant the special status to the lakes Yelovoye and Bolshoi Kisegach.

A large-scale alpine ski centre is planned to be constructed in Vereskino Village in the North Administrative District of Moscow.

Sociology Department of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation has fixed a list of the poorest Russian cities.

The water in Lake Baikal, the cleanest and the deepest lake in the world, has dropped a record 40 cm to a sixty-year low for the past year and came near to the critical mark of 456 m., which can be followed by an ecocatastrophe.

Teams of Cossack neighborhood guards will soon begin patrolling the “Sokolniki” park on weekends and public holidays.

The building of sports equipment rental centre burned down in a mountain complex STC “Mountain Air” in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.