According to the many years tradition, the main square of Rybinsk is decorated with snow giants during the New Year holidays: these were Golden Fish, pike, Father Frost and bear in different years. As soon as weather conditions permitted, a seven-meter snowman with skis appeared on Derunova Square.

New Oceanarium in St. Petersburg will be one of Europe’s largest scientific and educational centers for oceanology and marine biology.

The archaeological monument in Timiryazevo of the Tomsk Region is still at stake due to housing development.

Archeologists have found massive horse burial ground of the 12th – 13th centuries in Natukhayevskaya Village near Novorossiysk.

A two-month baby was dumped off in an entrance hall of an apartment house in Obninsk town of the Kaluga Region.

Full-scale tests of military robots for the Russian Armed Forces, including the Strategic Missile Forces, will be conducted in Astrakhan Oblast.

The Moscow Department of Natural Resources is going to allocate funds for fight against the imbalance of the ecosystem of the region by populating the missing species. The tenders for the development of the scheme of increasing the population of Russian desman and European mink for the amount of 9,000,000 roubles will be announced in 2015.

Communists of Angara Region claim the initiative of bringing down Lenin monument to be another anti-Soviet provocation.

Mysterious Christmas fortune-telling will be held in Oshurkova Estate (Yekaterinburg) on January 13, 15 and 16, 2015.

Together with the Russian wizard the regional Ministry of Culture was visited by his colleagues from Germany and Chuvashia.