Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alfyorov on his 80th birthday, the government press service said on Monday.
MOSCOW, June 25 (RIA Novosti) - A 35,000 year-old bone flute found by archeologists in southwest Germany is the world"s oldest known musical instrument, the Nature Journal said.
The Katyn massacre - the 1940 mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and government officials by the Soviet security services - remains one of the most bitter and contentious issues in Russian-Polish relations.