Russia may face a technical recession in the second and third quarters, admits a government official.

"Russian Disneyland", the new amusement park in the Russian resort city of Sochi, which earlier hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, is to open its doors to the first visitors this May.

An exhibition of rare icons of the 15th -19th centuries will be held in the Volkhonka Grand Fine Arts Centre in Moscow.

The exhibition Easter Gifts of the Imperial Family has been opened in St. Petersburg.

US Vice President Joe Biden called on Russia to refrain from further "provocative behavior" and use its leverage to convince pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine to evacuate the buildings they have seized.

The US is ready to go ahead with the third round of sanctions to demonstrate the ‘costs’ and push for de-escalation, State Department spokesperson Jennifer Psaki told the editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

Germany expects China to play a bigger role in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis by influencing Russia.

VKontakte founder Pavel Durov left Russia because “the country is incompatible with Internet business at the moment.” Durov plans to “start building a mobile social network this year”.

Maria Sharapova improved her position from ninth to eighth place in the ranking list of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA).

The new novel Monastery by the Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin will be screened, the newsru.com reports.

Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the world’s most famous composers, his creativity standing out as one of the high-water marks of the 20th century music. His works are genuine expressions of internal human drama. They are of great importance to the Russian music and music of the whole world.

The Russian composer, conductor and pianist Igor Stravinsky was a unique persona in music field of the 20th century. His creativity embracing practically all leading styles of the epoch is compared to that of Picasso as regards its powerful influence on and value for his contemporaries and descendants.

The Russian government is mulling the establishment of the national credit rating agency to break the monopoly of the big troika amid threats of further sanctions coming from the West.

Federal authorities will ensure the modernization of agricultural and industrial complex in the Crimea and Sevastopol.

A new dry-cargo port of Taman estimated at more than 220 billion roubles can become a part of the Kerch port agglomeration.

VKontakte shareholders announced that the social media cofounder Pavel Durov has been dismissed as the company’s CEO.

Sevhydromet’s vessel Professor Molchanov with "Floating University" crew onboard will sail for two research cruises from Arkhangelsk to the Arctic in summer.

Siberian innovative company, founded with the participation of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, developed a pocket ECG able to diagnose the heart as simple as to measure the pressure or temperature.

About three hundred people took part in the military-historical reconstruction of the battles of April - May 1942 in the area of the Red Army breakthrough in Novgorod oblast on Sunday.

US has warned mutual fund and hedge fund managers of possible further sanctions against Russia. Washington, however, has denied any personal penalties against the Kremlin.