July 3, 2017. School of Young Scientists "Methods for the integrated assessment of seismic hazard" has opened at the Shmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth (IPE RAS). The School was organized by GC RAS within the framework of the Russian Science Foundation (RNF) project No. 15-17-30020 "Application of system analysis for seismic hazard assessment in Russian regions".

June 26, 2017. Scientists of the University Center in Svalbard, UNIS, Norway, paid a working visit to GC RAS.

June 15, 2017. A. D. Gvishiani was appointed the new Editor-in-Chief of the electronic scientific Russian Journal of Earth Sciences (RJES), published since 1998. RJES is included in the core of Web of Science, RICC, RSCI, CrossRef and the list of VAK.

April 19, 2017. A meeting of the Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation was held to assess the fulfillment of the Federal Targeted Programme for R&D in Priority Areas of Development of the Russian Scientific and Technological Complex for 2014-2020. Anatoly Soloviev, Deputy Director for Science of GC RAS, spoke about the results of the final stage of the project "Development of innovative technology and creation of experimental sample of hardware-software complex for monitoring extreme geomagnetic phenomena using terrestrial and satellite data" carried out under the agreement No. 14.607.21.0058 of September 22, 2014. The meeting participants decided to accept the obtained results.