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The State Historical Museum has launched an exhibition “Family album. From the history of photographer’s parlors”.  

On December 22 2010 the Russian World Studios (RWS), the State Film Collection (OGK) and the Reliance Media Works Ltd. (India) signed an agreement on joint restoration and digitization of the Soviet classic films and cartoons.  

Президент РФ Д.А. Медведев поручил премьер-министру Владимиру Путину и председателю Высшего арбитражного суда (ВАС) Антону Иванову разработать план поэтапного внедрения электронного судопроизводства. Пилотный проект будет реализован в арбитражных судах.  

“Yandex.Maps” service has added panoramas of other seven major cities.  

The State University of Haiti (UEH) suffered considerable damage. Numerous buildings were severely damaged or completely destroyed by the earthquake. 11 of the 12 libraries of the University are on the ground. To support the resumption of classes at the beginning of January 2011 Libraries Without Borders (Bibliothèques Sans Frontières BSF) provides a quick solution for access to scientific and technical information for students, researchers and teachers in Haiti.  

The German archive of the International Tracing Service of the Red Cross says it has handed over to France digitized documents on Nazi persecution and forced labour.  

Archaeology journal, published by the Archaeological Institute of America, has released Top 10 discoveries of 2010. They feature not only archaeological excavations, but also laboratory breakthroughs important for archaeology.

The German National Library, Oxford University and Europeana have signed an agreement to digitise family papers and memorabilia from the First World War. The collaboration will bring German soldiers’ stories online alongside their British counterparts in a 1914-18 archive

Cyrillic domain .рф (.rf) has been launched in Runet, informs RIA News with a reference to Director of the Coordination Center of the RU domain Andrei Kolesnikov.

More than forty-three million Russians surf Internet. The figure was announced by the Deputy Head of the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of Russia, Andrei Romanchenko, during the board session of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media.

On May 10 Russian Agency of international news RIA News and Mexican NOTIMEX news agency signed a bilateral agreement on cooperation in information sphere.

The Keene Public Library in New Hampshire (USA) is actively implementing the program of the President Obama to engage more Americans in serving their communities.

Дорогие ветераны! Вы завоевали мир для страны, всей планеты. Дали нам саму возможность жить. Низкий вам поклон.

The awards that will decorate the chests of many Great Patriotic War veterans on 9 May could be seen in the Armory Chamber.

On May, 6 the Presidential library launched a presentation of the multimedia film entitled “Letters from front”, created by pupils of the Children’s multimedia studio “М-ART” of the City Palace of Youth Creativity.

An archive of secret papers which shed new light on Britain’s role in the formation of Iraq and Saudi Arabia has been unearthed after almost 90 years.

Tver archaeologists have announced about a unique find. In the very heart of the city was found an ancient settlement whose history spans several centuries.

Book exhibition “Private presses and publishers of Ryazan” was launched at the reading room of the A.M. Gorky Ryazan Regional Library Rare Book Division.

The first session of the Organizing Committee of the Russian Language and Culture Buffs Club kicked off at the Russian Center, Pedagogical University of the National Education Commission. The club was set up on the initiative of Krakow students and friends of the Russian center.

Yellowed from the time pages of decrees which bear the signatures of Russian Empresses Anna Ioannovna, Elizabeth Petrovna, Catherine the Great, Alexander I, Alexander II and Alexander III, Nicholas I and the last Russian Emperor – Nicholas II, as well as orders of legendary Soviet commanders Vasily Blyukher and Georgy Zhukov, were returned by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Russia.

The exhibition “Books for gourmets. Bibliophile editions of late 19th – beginning 20th cc", featuring editions of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry and first years of the Soviet power from the private collection of the Head of the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications Mikhail Seslavinsky, kicked off on December 2 at the Central House of Artists.

74% of IT organizations are in the planning stage of server virtualization, or to some extent have already implemented this technology in their company’s IT-strategy, reads the survey called “Cloud computing: The Future of IT industry in developing EMEA region” released by CA Technologies, which brought together over 600 respondents from 12 countries responsible for decision-making in IT industry.

On December 2 2010 at the State Historical Museum in Moscow was launched an exhibition “Russian portrait miniature. Private collection of Russian miniature of late 17th – 19th cc.” from the collection of the SEPHEROT Foundation. The collection has been unveiled for the first time and joins the museum’s major project “Russian Historical Portrait”.

Moscow is developing a project for upgrading the library network with introduction of so-called “biblioloxes” – Electronic Book Returns.

The Symposium “Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age - Copyright as a means to foster creativity and access” is focused on the problems of reading in the age of Internet posing the question if the digital age will put an end to the culture of reading and books that has been nurtured over centuries.