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December
2025
Moscow beavers have completed their preparations for winter
Most beavers permanently residing within the Moscow area have completed their preparations for the winter season – they've stockpiled food and fortified their homes and lodges, preparing to wait out the cold weather.

Announcements

28 October 2025
Shared Use Centers (SUC) at IEE RAS: What, Why, and How to Use Them

The Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE RAS) invites all interested staff to a seminar about the Collective Use Center at the location of the institute.

20 — 22 November 2025
All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "Monitoring Wildlife in Specially Protected Natural Areas"

Abstract submissions are currently being accepted for the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "Monitoring Wildlife in Specially Protected Natural Areas," which will be held from November 20 to 22, 2025, in Moscow, at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (32A Leninsky Prospekt) in the Blue Hall.

23 December 2025
Defense of M.S. Bizin's dissertation "Soil mites of marine littorals of the Russian Arctic: taxonomic structure and spatial organization of communities"

On Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at 2:00 PM, Council Meeting 24.1.109.01 will be held in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33). Mikhail Sergeevich Bizin will defend his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences: "Soil Mites of Marine Littorals of the Russian Arctic: Taxonomic Structure and Spatial Organization of Communities."

23 December 2025
Defense of K.D. Kondrakova's dissertation "Formation and Functioning of Non-Breeding Groups of the Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo) and the Common Crane (Grus grus)"

On Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at 4:00 PM, Council Meeting 24.1.109.01 will be held in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33). Kristina Dmitrievna Kondrakova, Candidate of Biological Sciences, will defend her dissertation "Formation and Functioning of Non-Breeding Groups of Demoiselle Cranes (Anthropoides virgo) and Common Cranes (Grus grus)."

08 — 09 December 2025
International Scientific and Practical Conference "New Athos Cave and the Challenges of Studying the Karst of Abkhazia"

Абхазский государственный университет, Новоафонская пещера им. Г.Ш. Смыр, Институт экологии Академии наук Абхазии приглашают принять The Abkhaz State University, the G.Sh. Smyr New Athos Cave, and the Institute of Ecology of the Academy of Sciences of Abkhazia invite you to participate in the International Scientific and Practical Conference "The New Athos Cave and the Challenges of Karst Study in Abkhazia." The conference, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the tourism activities of the G.Sh. Smyr New Athos Cave and the 80th anniversary of the birth of Givi Shalvovich Smyr, will take place on December 8-9, 2025, in Sukhum, Republic of Abkhazia.

A contest for projects of fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research by international research teams is open

The Russian Science Foundation, together with the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), is launching a competition for fundamental and exploratory research projects by international research teams.