On Friday night, January 30, the library of the Academic Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) caught fire in Moscow. Firemen have been trying to extinguish a fire for almost 12 hours.

November, 2014 marked the 80th anniversary since the foundation of unique M. B. Grekov Studio that unites war artists.

Zurab Tsereteli Gallery opens the art exhibition Ship. Traveling through Time and Image.

The KultProject Gallery has opened an exhibition of works by the legendary artists Dmitry Plavinsky (1937 — 2012) and Maria Plavinskaya.

The State Tretyakov Gallery in Krymsky Val holds the exhibition Imaginary Reality of the artist Zorikto Dorzhiyev.

The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center has opened the Person and Catastrophe project.

The Russian Academy of Arts holds an exhibition of Stanislav Lomov, an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts and a member of the Russian Academy of Education.

The Multimedia Art Museum has opened the exhibition Shoes, Dominoes and Happiness of the artist Anna Vazof.

Museum of Moscow has opened an exhibition dedicated to the Moscow State University.

The pilot project on payment of passenger travels by bank cards at the ticket offices of the Metro will be launched until the end of March 2015. This will allow passengers to pay in the ticket offices without cash.

Moisey Feygin was registered in the Guinness Book of Records as “The world’s oldest working professional artist” in February, 2008.

Russian artist of the Jewish origin, who blended the traits of Russian Art Nouveau and avant-garde; one of the most famous artists of the Jewish theater in the Yiddish language.

The greatest monument of the 12th century Russian culture is the Tale of Igor's Campaign telling about the failed campaign of the Novgorod Prince Igor Svyatoslavich to conquer the Cumans (aka the Polovtsy) in 1185. The author was an avid supporter of the country’s unity, the unity of its strongest princes and its people.

Czech Airlines has reduced ticket prices for Russians and cut down on the proposed number of seats on flights from Russia to the Czech Republic. This was the airline’s reaction to the devaluation of the rouble and, consequently, a drop in demand for flights from Russian passengers.

Rosneft has launched production at the Arkutun-Dagi field after painstaking preparatory works involving international players amid tough sanctions imposed by an alliance of countries over Russia’s alleged role in the Ukraine crisis.

One of the world’s largest furniture retail chains - the Swedish IKEA - plans to invest 19 billion Swedish kronor (about $ 2.3 billion) in the company’s operations in Russia until 2020.

By March 2015 the number of people unable to pay the full amount of the monthly payments on foreign currency mortgage may reach 45%. This forecast was made by the All-Russian movement of foreign currency mortgage borrowers.

The meetings of the OSCE and of foreign ministers of the EU countries will take place against the background of escalating conflict in Donbass, and in particular, the bombardment of Mariupol, which resulted in death of 30 people on January 24th.

The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine ordered the government of the country to begin the procedure of preparation of the complaint to the Hague Tribunal to recognize the murders of Ukrainians in Donbass as crimes against humanity.

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance is negotiating the renewal of import of certain products from the European Union.