Kseniia Pavlova

Austria is one of the leading European countries in terms of waste recycling: over 96% of its residents are sorting their trash. However, Austrian scientists and researchers do not stop and continue working on the new innovative solutions in the waste management sector - the recent one involves taking into use the power of artificial intelligence. This project and a few others are being developed by students and researchers of the University of Leoben (Montanuniversität Leoben).

Electric vehicles (or EVs) are probably not that environmentally friendly as we believe they are, but people should buy them anyway.

This mineral was first found in Russia. Its discovery credit could have been assigned to Russian scientists, if the find had been registered properly. In reality, the glory of discoverers was given to German geologists, who even named this mineral after Goethe, a German writer and statesman.

There is an enormous amount of waste rock dumps left by the companies after extraction. Neither officials nor business people are interested in doing anything about the open dumps, although development of waste materials could earn them reasonable profits

It was a year ago when the launch of a large-scale waste management reform was announced in Russia.

It is forecasted that the price on this stone will only go up. As of today, it has already entered the top five best selling minerals. This gem was shot in one of the most popular box office movies of the XX century and was adopted as a hallmark of the world’s oldest jewellery brand.

What can be done to prevent questioning the quality of awarded degrees and what should Russian universities and research institutes do to handle the issue and facilitate introduction of new scientific developments into production?

One of the main topics of this year’s Russian-German Raw Materials Dialogue was cooperation prospects for the two countries, as they have been seeking for the ways to contribute to environmentally sustainable development and fight against the global warming.

This stone’s colour is generally considered as one of the most rare and beautiful. The world’s greatest artists and iconographers were inspired by its sky-blue colour. Its blue lustre has been brightening the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican for centuries.

The universities of St. Petersburg attract high school graduates from many regions of Russia and different countries all over the world. However, those students who have been admitted are facing a problem of finding a suitable housing. That is hardly a surprise that most of the newcomers tend to living in a dorm room, as this option is is a lot cheaper compared to apartment rental.

The network of foreign partner universities of Russian scientific community is set to increase further.

More than a hundred tons of this stone each year are illegally mined and exported from Russia. Damage to the state budget is estimated to be at the very least tens of billions of dollars.

This stone is without a doubt one of the most useful minerals on our planet. It has been over a few centuries since people started applying it for treatment of severe illnesses and human health protection in general. Health resorts of Karlovy Vary or Baden-Baden would have never been built if this stone had never existed in the first place.

This autumn, the Russia-Africa Summit took place in Sochi, one of the most southern Russian cities. Over the course of two days the event lasted, a number of significant agreements were achieved.

The price on this mineral continues breaking historical records. Over the last decade, it has become one of the most highly demanded stones: the greatest and most famous jewellery houses from all over the world use this gem in their collections while the purchase of this stone is reasonably considered a profitable investment.

This mineral was for a very long time associated mostly with death, since over the course of the centuries it had been a key ingredient of multiple poisons - among its victims were Pope Alexander VI, Mozart, Napoleon, Francesco I (de’ Medici), René Descartes and others.