President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Alexander Sergeev has received the French Order of Academic Palms.

The People's Artist of the RSFSR, Nina Doroshina, aged 83, died on the 21st of April 2018.

Film director Andrei Zvyagintsev and producer Alexander Rodnyansky together with the Paramount studio will shoot a series in Russian.

The concert was performed by the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) under the conductorship of Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, a friend of Dmitry Hvorostovsky.

Writers Alexey Salnikov and Anna Starobinets have made it into the final contest of the literary award "National Bestseller".

Leading actress of the “School of Modern Play” Theater, Honored Artist of Russia Angelica Volchkova died at Easter night.

Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was also awarded, posthumously, for his collected works.

The tentative title of the upcoming adventure film is "Lord of the Wind”.

The ceremony of the Russian award for young theater workers was held on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg, on March 12.

The People's Artist of the USSR, Art Director of the Moscow Chekhov Art Theater and Tabakerka, Oleg Tabakov died in Moscow.