A gigantic statue of St. Andrew the Apostle might be erected in Saint Petersburg.

Average length of heating season in Russia can become 10-15 days shorter within following 50-70 years, Russian scientists believe.

Fyodor Bondarchuk’s film company Art Pictures and Pavel Hudyakov’s company Hudyakov Production have won a contest for the right to use the trademark of the popular social network "Odnoklassniki.ru" as the title for their new movie.

Today it seems almost impossible to find a customer able to buy the whole building at once. No wonder, one of the developers is prepared to sell its only large-scale project in parts.

The technology of buying plane tickets on-line is not yet wide-spread in Russia, but the Aeroflot air-company offers its clients this way of buying tickets for all the flights except ones to India and USA. It lets to save a lot of time, because of avoiding standing in queue. Moreover, the electronic tickets are cheaper as the traditional ones.

The air-company S7 or Siberia opens direct services from Irkutsk to Beijing and Tashkent. S7 is the only one company, providing such services, which let to save a lot of time on the routes, which are very popular in the region. For example, the flight to the capital of Uzbekistan takes 4 hours.

The Russia-Italy gas pipeline project designed to go through the Black Sea to the Bulgarian port is an alternative to Nabucco gas pipeline projected to deliver gas from Central Asia to the EU countries.

Russian Academy of Sciences recently joined the global programme Open Cirrus, which is aimed at developing cloud computing technologies.

The state Duma has prepared the petition with a request to the Russian Government to take steps for providing safety of the Russian tourists abroad. The authors of the document are vice-speaker of the state Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the floor leader of the liberal democrats Igor Lebedev and the deputy of the same party Sergey Ivanov.

Museum of Early Man in Altai has been opened on the territory of the well-known archeological monument Ulalinskaya Site in Gorno-Altaisk.

Vladimir Bekhterev, world-famous Russian neurologist, dedicated his life to studying human brain. We owe him many facts about the way we think and react.

The People’s Artist of Russia, famous singer. She performed for almost 60 years. She sang in the Russian Song Choir of the All-Union Radio. Took part in numerous TV programs, was called “National voice of Russia”. Many famous compositors wrote songs especially for her. She created the State Academic Russian Folk Ensemble “Russia”. Her vocals of the songs: “Orenbursky pukhovy platok” (the downy shawl from Orenburg) and “River Volga” are famous all over the word.

Marat Safin was born on the January, 27, 1980 in Moscow in the ethnic Tatar family. Marat is a famous Russian tennis player, former World Number 1 and the elder brother of current World Number 1 WTA player Dinara Safina. Their mother and the first coach Rausa Islanova is also tennis player, USSR champion.

All-Russia Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM) published data on what inventions, made in the 20^th century, Russian people considered to be most important, and what discoveries our fellow nationals were waiting for in the 21^st century.

Guus Hiddink is known as a mentor of the strongest European clubs and select teams. Furthermore, Guus Hiddink is the only one person, who made two different teams through to the semifinal. “Lucky Dutchman” did it with the select teams of Holland (1998) and South Korea (2002).