Artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have taken the Cartier Award for the best art project of the year. The jury of the award founded by the jeweler company has distinguished their work The Wind of Tolerance.

Primorsky Territory of Russia will soon host the first in our country rehabilitation centre for rare species of predator animals. The centre will cover 2.7 hectares of Nadezhdinsky region and will be far from any human settlements.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s book has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award in the Collection category.

Russian first-rate air carrier of Aeroflot expands geography of its trans-Atlantic flights and opens a new regular service Moscow - Panama. Panama President Ricardo Martinelli has announced it in an interview to RT TV channel.

An open-air museum of petroglyphs has recently opened in the Republic of Khakassia. Its main exhibit is a rock with petroglyphs made by the people of pre-historic culture of Okunevskaya and some latter archaeologic cultures of South Siberia. Museum is called "Maloarbatskaya pisanitsa".

Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation together with Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology invite master and PhD students, young scientists and teachers, which work in physics, biology, mathematics and chemistry, to participate in the International science school for young researchers “BioMembranes 2010”.

Translation Institute that will promote prestige of the profession and provide financial support to translation projects will appear in Russia, the deputy head of State Press Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Grigoryev reported.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov sais he pays ten million rubles ($326,000) for true information about the location of rebels who attacked his native village five days ago.

Some journalists and scientists are intent to search for snowmen, which were reportedly seen in taiga of Mountain Shoria, Altai Republic.

Moscow park of Kolomenskoye offers a new tourist attraction: an ethnographical Craftsmen Village will appear there in addition to Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich'/s palace, which opens its doors for visitiors tomorrow, on the September, 4.

September brings some needed cold to Moscow, and also signals the debut of the new theatrical and concert season. One of the main dates in September is celebration of the Day of Moscow on September 4-5, 2010.

Gennady Gladkov gained all-Union popularity thanks to his work on the musical animated cartoon film The Bremen Musicians (1969).

Yuri Entin’s works were quite often subject to criticism by creative review committees, banned from publication, release or broadcasting on TV and radio.

Vladimir Engelhardt, father of molecular biology in Soviet Union, was a man of many merits. Working on the leading edge of science, the researcher predicted and preented many ideas, which now entered our everyday life.