On January 18, 2021 Boris Vladimirovich Sokolov celebrated his 70th jubilee. Sincere congratulations to Boris Vladimirovich on the occasion of his Jubilee Birthday, and wishes to the anniversarian and his loved ones good health, happiness, well-being, and further creative success!

May good health, inexhaustible energy and joy based on scientific achievements accompany you throughout 2021!

Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Dr. Valery Falkov extended his congratulations to students, teachers and employees of the Russian universities on the New Year.

President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev shared the problems faced in the outgoing year and spoke about the prospects for the New 2021 Year.

In accordance with the orders of The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2019 No. 1399 and of June 08, 2020 No. 768 on SPIIRAS basis with joining IL RAS, SRCES RAS, FSRI IAERD, N-W CIRPFM, FSRI “Novgorod SRAI” was established The Federal State Institution of Science “St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (SPC RAS).

Congratulations to Professor Vasily Yu. Osipov, the Сhief Researcher at the SPC RAS Laboratory of Computing and Information Systems and Software Engineering, on obtaining a patent for the invention «A Method of Intelligent Multilevel Information Processing in a Neural Network».

On december 22, 2020 the St Petersburg Committee for Science and Higher Education summarised the results of its annual competition to award grants to young scientists, young candidates of sciences of universities, sectoral and academic institutes located in St Petersburg.

On December 10, 2020 took place the international on-line conference «Regional Strategies in Social and Economic Development: Target Orientation», arranged by Institute of Problems in Regional Economics of RAS (IPRE RAS). Totally fifteen scientific presentations were heard.

The project “Development of an innovative device intended for contactless laser stimulation of agricultural crops” submitted by Natalia Sevastyanova, Deputy Director for Research of Novgorod SRAI - branch of SPC RAS, won a grant at the "StartSUV-2020" competition initiated by the Innovation Promotion Foundation.

On November 23, 2020 Head of the Hydrobiology Laboratory at the Institute of Limnology of RAS (IL RAS – SPC RAS) Evgeny Kurashov and Leading Researcher of Scientific Research Centre of Ecological Safety of RAS (SRCES RAS – SPC RAS) Andrei Sharov were spoken about anthropogenic factors, the influence of blue-green algae on the ecosystem of water bodies and rivers.