Local resources

•  Minister of natural resourses and ecology of Russian Federation Yury Trutnev and Minister of preservation of the environment of China Czhou Shensyan signed a protocol of 3 session of the subcommittee on the conservation of the environment on 26 June 2008
•  2 February each year is World Wetlands Day
•  EU donated 60 thousand euro on the sewage treatment in Kaliningrad
•  Russian authorities are worried about the sharp fall of water level in the Baikal lake
•  International conference "Nature protecting collaboration of Chita region (RF) and autonomic region Mongolia (PRC)
•  IMCG Symposium on Windfarms on peatland-Peatlands, Energy and Climate Change
•  10th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971)
•  14th meeting of Russian and Ukranian Governments upon Russian-Ukranian agreement on mutual usage and protection of transborder water bodies
•  The 10th International Scientific and Industrial Forum “Great Rivers”
•  International workshop "Water resourses of East Asia. Quality of natural waters and their rational usage
•  International scientific conference devoted to 130-anniversary of K.I. Skryabin birth "Biodiversity and ecology of parasites of ground and water cenosis