Perm has recently been striving for the title of the cultural capital of Russia. Though the aim is far to reach, there seem to be certain preconditions for that, among them a number of large-scale art and culture festivals regularly held in Perm and the Perm Territory.

October, 24th, 2010 saw the closing ceremony of the First Open Ecological Film Festival ''Green Carnation'' on Square of Arts in Sochi.The festival has been included into the program of the Cultural Olympic Games “Sochi 2010-2014”.

The major event of the last week was certainly the triumphant final of the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time held in Russia. Alexander Rybak representing Norway became the winner in a close contest in the final. Alexander was born in Minsk, Byelorussia, and considers the Russian language to be his mother tongue

Grushinsky Festival (aka Grusha, Grushinka, and so on) is a famous open-air music festival that is annually held in midsummer in Russia.

Appealing to the innermost strings in people’s hearts, the art of bell ringing captivates listeners’ ears and minds. More and more people in Russia and other countries want to become familiar with bell ringing, master it and create this magic with their own hands. The early 1980s saw the revival of this ancient art in Russia with the festivals of bell ringing held in various corners of this country.

We are still not very used to huge and spectacular performances. When Rolling Stones, or U2, started to gather people on the stadiums, only a handful of Russians had ever heard about them.

Clapton’s charitable concert in the Red Square on August 3 supports the unique bicycling marathon ‘Moscow–Taganrog’, which will start off from the Vasilyevsky Spusk on August 4, at 9 a.m.

The sport resort Sorochany in the suburbs of Moscow has turned into ETHNOLAND, a unique park of the world culture festivals open from 14 July to 27 August.

It is hardly possible to give an overall unbiased picture of the annual Grushinsky festival of bard songs

The festival of world music ‘Island of Light’ has occupied the cozy Garden Hermitage, one of the most pleasant places in downtown Moscow.

If you are not devoid of romanticism take a chance once and come to an air-balloon festival!