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18
August
2025
To the south of Siberia - in search of arctic species
The task was not an easy one - to confirm the habitation (and, possibly, the origin) of a number of cryobiont (living in the cold) animal species, still considered Arctic, in the mountains of Southern Siberia.
08
August
2025
Demoiselle Crane Disappears in European Russia
Expedition to count birds listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation confirms the fears of specialists: the species is disappearing in the European part of Russia.

Announcements

The competition for the 2027 L'Oréal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” International Award is open

In 2027, the awards will be presented to outstanding scientific researchers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer and information sciences, chemistry, and earth and environmental sciences. Five winners will be selected, each receiving a prize of €100,000.

27 May
Pre-defense of T.V. Marchenkova's thesis on "Demographic and spatial structure of the Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) population based on camera trap matrix data"

On Wednesday, May 27 at 14:00, an interlaboratory colloquium will be held at 33 Leninsky Prospekt (room 19) between the Laboratory of Mammalian Behavior and Behavioral Ecology (Head – RAS Academician V.V. Rozhnov) and the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology and Biocommunication (Head – RAS Corresponding Member A.V. Surov).

The selection process for the Vietnam Scholarship Program for studies, internships, and advanced training at Vietnamese universities has begun

Applications are now being accepted for the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Scholarship Program for studies, internships, and professional development at Vietnamese universities in the 2026/2027 academic year.

23 — 26 September 2027
All-Russian (with international participation) scientific zoological conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov

Each participant may submit up to two original publications and two co-authored publications with colleagues, each up to 6 pages long. Publication of a collection of materials is planned for the start of the conference.

28 May
Pre-defense of the candidate's dissertation by Denisenko A.D. "Regional composition and formation of feeding aggregations of juvenile chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) in the Sea of Okhotsk based on the results of genetic identification"

On Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 2:00 PM, an interlaboratory colloquium will be held in the large conference hall of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (33 Leninsky Prospekt) to mark the pre-defense of Anastasia Dmitrievna Denisenko's PhD dissertation.

On the identified incident and measures to improve the information security of the Russian Federation

The Department of Digital Development of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Department), as part of its information security measures, reports an increase in fraudulent activity targeting employees of subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the organizations).