Unseasonably warm winter weather and abundant rainfall in the forests around Bryansk have awakened the common brimstone butterfly (conepteryx rhamni) from hibernation months ahead of schedule, the Bryansky Les nature preserve said in a statement.
Egyptian engineers have started dismantling equipment and machinery at a nuclear power plant construction site after looters damaged parts of the station, the Al-Masry Al-Youm daily reported.
Deciphering equipment for the voice recorder of a crashed Russian passenger jet will be delivered to Jakarta from Moscow on Thursday morning, the Russian Industry and Trade Ministry reported.
A Nasa astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts docked with the International Space Station (ISS) early on Thursday, beginning a four-month mission aboard the orbiting complex.
Over 30 protesters have been detained in downtown Moscow’s Kudrinskaya Square, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will on Thursday attend the second St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.