Saratov, Russia News

The Board of Directors of OJSC MRSK Volgi will hold its next session on January 27, the company informed.

A group working to return the great bustard to its former ranges on Salisbury Plain is appealing for funds to help it move to the next stage in its programme.

SARATOV, Russia -- A Russian military court has postponed the trial of a man charged with deserting the army more than a decade ago who claims to have been kidnapped, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

The front cover is graced by volunteer Lenka Panackova, braving the compound with Fergus the Great Bustard, while Hannah Rose, seen lying decorously in a field, will warm purchasers of the calendar during February.

On December 10, in what one Russian blogger called "The Great December Evolution"--a play on the Bolsheviks' Great October Revolution--tens of thousands of people protested peacefully in central Moscow.