On 17 October 2018 Anna Gennadiyevna Shakhparunyantz, General Director of Russian Lighting Research Institute named after S.I. Vavilov, was elected Vice-president of the Board of directors of International Commission on Illumination (CIE). 23 Representatives of National Committees participated in the vote. The overwhelming majority supported A.G. Shakhparunyantz’s candidacy, with only 1 vote against and 1 abstention.

This year the editorial office of the Light and Engineering journal held a contest to assign the noble titles of The Author of the Year, The Correspondent of the Year and The Reviewer of the Year for 2017. The laureates were announced and awarded in the solemn atmosphere of the plenary session in the framework of the "Light in a museum" conference being held in The State Hermitage Museum in April of 2018.