Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia wrote a letter on 21 February 2013 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposing to develop an international asteroid impact prevention system. The message stressed the seriousness of space threats and inability of modern methods of celestial bodies’ detection to predict meteorite strike, […]

Italian center-left coalition led by Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani won control of the lower house with 29.54%, narrowly beating the center-right bloc led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, which was supported by 29.18% of voters. However, no party has a majority in the Italian Senate and this, […]

Countries should pay close attention to the development of methods for detection and tracking of celestial bodies as it is impossible to counter space threats “working blindly.” This is the opinion expressed by Alexander Bagrov, Full Doctor of Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy […]

Relations between Poland and Russia are gradually returning to normal, which is, in particular demonstrated by mutual steps of the two countries aimed at visa regime facilitation. This is the opinion expressed by Leszek Sykulski, famous Polish political analyst, director of the Czestochowa Institute of Geopolitics, in an interview with […]

Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences continue to investigate the meteorite explosion recorded in the Chelyabinsk region near the Chebarkul lake on 15 February 2013, after which more than 1.5 thousand people sought medical care. Modern methods of detection of celestial bodies have been unable to predict this threat, […]

More than 2,500 business leaders and politicians discussed the current economic situation and took part in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), which ended in the Swiss ski resort of Davos on Saturday, January 26. The theme of the meetings was Resilient Dynamism, with the largest number of discussion sessions […]