A ruble monument that will cost a million rubles will be set up in Samara this summer.

The NAMEGALLERY in St. Petersburg has opened an exhibition of Vladimir Shinkarev timed to his 60th anniversary.

Exhibition Ancient China: Ritual and Music. Bronze and Varnishes has been opened in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow.

Utrish Wildlife Reserve in the Krasnodar Territory has never had to be regarded and treated as a national park. It has had neither tourist infrastructure nor capital facilities.

Researchers of the Philology Faculty of the Tomsk State University have found and published nearly 300 previously unknown texts by the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

A viable virus of enormous size has been found by Russian and French scientists in permafrost near River Kolyma.

The Parliament of Crimea has called on Russia to accept the Ukrainian autonomous republic as part of its territory.

Moody’s has warned Russia could lose investment appeal and its current credit rating due to the uncertainty over the Ukraine crisis.

The amount of ethnically motivated violence dropped in Russia last year, while convictions in xenophobic attack cases increased, according to a report unveiled on Monday by the Moscow Bureau of Human Rights.

Natalya Sindeeva, a founder of the Dozhd independent television channel, said on Tuesday that it faces shutdown in weeks after controversy over a poll on the siege of Leningrad in World War II.

Professor Alexander Rukavishnikov is the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, the Merited Artist of RSFSR and the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic, and a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts. He is known as a master of monumental and easel works and sculptural portraits.

The Kingdom of Far Far Away, the Castle of Koshchey and Honeymooners' Park are planned to be built within the Park of Russian Fairy Tales. According to the project, the park will be divided into three zones: Area of Good (Far Far Away Kingdom), Midworld and the Area of Evil (Kingdom of Koshchey).

The Princess of Ukok (aka Siberian Ice Maiden) is an amazing find that archeologists unearthed at the Ukok Plateau in the Altai Mountains and become known all around Russia and the world.

As is well-known, birchbark manuscripts are both material and manuscript historical source at the same time. After all it is not only the place where they were found, but also their contents that matters for the history.

The Sochi Olympics generated almost 2 billion roubles in revenue for the Russian TV channels who acquired the broadcasting rights for the 2014 Winter Games

The Soviet Mandala exhibition by Odessa artist Anatoly Gankevich, where carpet patterns and crystal faces are endowed with almost metaphysical attributes, is taking place in Winzavod's Red Plant.

Works by Andy Warhol, Komar and Melamid and Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe tell about Russian collectors, who presented at the exhibition the best paintings from their collections.

Russia may begin to supply gas to South Korea via gas pipeline through the territory of China.

The first Russian "Formula 1" racer Vitaly Petrov became the first Russian member of the DTM racing driving his AMG Mercedes factory racing car.

The north of Irkutsk oblast and Krasnoyarsk Territory near Boguchanskaya HPP began experiencing seismic activity due to the filling of a new water reservoir on the Angara River.