Novosibirsk, the center of Siberia, will become the center of the unique total solar eclipse on August 1st 2008.

Last weekend around 200 residents of the Imereti Valley in Sochi, where it is planned to build Olympic objects by 2014, organized a protest action against eviction from their houses.

Following an order of the local procuracy office, a banner with the Koran quote “There’s No God but Allah” was removed from a wall of the only mosque in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk.

A massive spill of chemical substances has occurred on the Chinese territory near the border with Russia killing 3 people. The Chinese side has not officially informed Russia yet about what kind of chemicals leaked.

Over 20 cars have been set on fire in Moscow within the last four days. The police consider all cases to be related and the primary suspect is believed to suffer from a psychic disorder. A reward of up to 1 million RUB has been appointed for information about the culprit.

Unique sport expedition started from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky last Sunday.

The cult members, who have been hiding in a cave in the Penza Region since last November, left their dugout this morning after they were told about possible ptomaine poisoning.

The new Islam channel is supposed to encourage and promote spiritual development of the society.

P96-Golf ultra light aircraft manufactured by Tecnam (Italy) crashed in the Chelyabinsk Region of Russia on Sunday evening killing the pilot and his trainee. The aircraft belonged to Russian company Chelavia.

Russian and Ukraine have agreed to construct a bridge across the Kerch Strait. The Ukrainian side has told that work on the project is expected to start in the nearest days.