[3] In November 2007, he was interviewed by Mat Kaplan on Planetary Radio along with Bruce Betts and Tom Duxbury.
[6] After the probe's fall into the southern Pacific Ocean on January 15, 2012, he commented that this crash was a tragedy for the Russian scientific community, and that with soil samples from Phobos his team could uncover information about the solar system's origins.
[7] Later, he told Reuters about the possible reasons of the probe stranded in low Earth orbit, but doesn't rule out something.
[2] He was hoping that Fobos-Grunt will be repeated as called by IKI's director Lev Zeleny and later acknowledged by Roscosmos in April 2012.
[8][9] Zakharov will be attending the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly from 13 to 17 August 2012 at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore for the presentation on Mars Science and Exploration.