This is an announcement for the paper "Monotone retractability and retractional skeletons" by Marek Cuth and Ondrej F.K. Kalenda. Abstract: We prove that a countably compact space is monotonically retractable if and only if it has a full retractional skeleton. In particular, a compact space is monotonically retractable if and only if it is Corson. This gives an answer to a question of R. Rojas-Hern{\'a}ndez and V. V. Tkachuk. Further, we apply this result to characterize retractional skeleton using a topology on the space of continuous functions, answering thus a question of the first author and a related question of W. Kubi\'s. Archive classification: math.GN math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: 54C15, 54D30, 46B26 Remarks: 14 pages Submitted from: kalenda@karlin.mff.cuni.cz The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1403.4480 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1403.4480