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The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev emphasized that the state deserved credit for launch of the .РФ (.RF) domain zone on Internet.  

Engineers at the University of Cincinnati (USA) have shown that under the right conditions, ordinary paper can be as dynamic as any screen.  

IBM has unveiled a new storage architecture design, created by IBM specialists, that will convert terabytes of pure information into actionable insights twice as fast as previously possible.

OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) has announced that the British Library has added 12 million bibliographic records to WorldCat.

Exhibition “Victory” of children’s paintings kicked off on November 3 2010 in St. Petersburg in the St. Michael’s Castle. It puts on display works by winners of the contest, dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.  

On November 2-3 2010 the Russian Institute of Strategic Research jointly with the A. Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad held the International scientific conference “Russian Exodus as an aftermath the national catastrophe. 90th anniversary of the end of the Civil War on the European territory of Russia”.  

On November 2 - 4 2010 in Moscow the Russkiy Mir Foundation will hold the Fourth Assembly of the Russian World, which following the tradition will kick off on the eve of the National Unity Day.  

A number of Swiss libraries, and educational institutions (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and its library, the Department of the public instruction of Geneva) along with assistance from Libraries without borders (BSF), have sent two shipping containers loaded with books and shelving for Haitian libraries.  

Within November 1 - 30 2010 the East View Information Services, Inc. and its official partner in Russia IVIS Ltd. are launching a free trial test access period to 38 electronic databases.

A project archiving a number of oral histories portraying periods of Istanbul’s social, cultural and economic transformation within the last 60-70 years has been completed

Google has translated its Gmail service into 44 language, including the Russian language.  

DukaPC, a Danish IT company, has designed a computer aimed at getting the elderly online.

A new book entitled “Military Glory of Altai” was unveiled on December 9 2010 in Barnaul. This book has been compiled to mark 65th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.  

Following decisions of the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the Russian Library Association (RBA) in 2011 Tyumen is called the library capital of Russia picking up the baton from Tomsk.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technology issues that brings together companies and government organizations from more than 190 countries of the world, has announced that nearly every third person on a planet has Internet access.

On January 27 - 29 2011 the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad in Moscow is holding the Seventh International scientific conference “Icon in Russian literature and culture”.  

The Central Exhibition Hall “Manege” in Moscow launched a photo exhibition entitled “Mikhail Gorbachev. Perestroika”, timed to 80th birthday anniversary of the former President of the Soviet Union.  

In February mascots of Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi will have their own official website at talisman.sochi2014, the website which is currently holding the All-Russian contest for the best mascot of Sochi Games.

On January 23 2011 in the micro-district Perevoz, Nikolskoye municipal settlement (Leningrad Oblast, Tosno District) following a tradition was held a military-historical re-enactment, dedicated to 67th complete liberation of Leningrad from the siege.   

Popular Russian video sharing and transmitting service RuTube has announced that in December 2010 it hit 1 million visits per day.  At the same time in 2010 RuTube user audience increased by 83%.  

European Digital library Europeana has published its Strategic Plan 2011-2015.  

In the past four years, the Illinois University Library has been involved in several digitization projects in partnership with other organizations. Over 23,000 books have already been digitized through the library’s contract with the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library.

The report, “Opportunity for All: How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at U.S. Libraries”, is based on the first, large-scale study of who uses public computers and Internet access in public libraries in the United States, the ways library patrons use this free technology service, why they use it, and how it affects their lives.

The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) has announced that the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are moving forward with the development of the Canadian Virtual Health Library (CVHL)-a first for Canada.

The periodical shelves at Stanford University’s Engineering Library are nearly bare. Library chief Helen Josephine says that in the past five years, most engineering periodicals have been moved online, making their print versions pretty obsolete — and books aren't doing much better.