The article contains information about the Second All-Russia Conference, speeches of participants and implementation steps of the National Program on Support and Development of Reading.
From 31 January to 2 February 2011 in St. Petersburg state University was held All-Russian conference "Development of geobotany: history and modernity" devoted to the 80 anniversary of the Department of geobotany and plant ecology of St. Petersburg state University and anniversaries of its teachers.
From 22 to 27 September 2008, in Petrozavodsk was held a regular Delegate of the XII Congress of the Russian Botanical society (RBS), which was held All-Russian conference «Fundamental and applied problems of botany at the beginning of the XXI century». The Congress and the conference was attended by about 450 nerds of various specialties from 49 cities of Russia.
