The development of the Russian Space Weather Initiatives

Abstract Russian Space Weather Initiatives (RSWI) support different models for space weather forecastin (http://alpha.npi.msu.su/RSWI/rswi.html). The models give the long-time (months-years) and short-time (days) predictions of the solar activity, heliospheric conditions, and dynamics of the Earth's magnetic field and radiation. Many different parameters measured from the Sun to the Earth's magnetosphere are used as inputs to the space weather models. The paper is devoted to a short overview of these models.