A commemorative plaque with a bas-relief of Nikolay Zelinsky (1861-1953) has been set up in downtown St. Petersburg.

Dmitry Shishkin from Russia has reached the final of the International Competition for Young Pianists in Brussels.

A charity auction sale of the world famous opera singer's belongings raised over 1,3 million rubles.

Vladimir Medinsky participated in the first departure ceremony of the train named after the People's Artist of the USSR Vyacheslav Tikhonov.

The 125th anniversary since the birth of the great writer is celebrated with an exhibition in his apartment in Moscow.

Visitors and media of the Cannes Film Festival rose in applause to Kirill Serebrennikov's film The Student.

Admirers of the famous Russian ballet master Boris Eifman are excited to meet his new creation.

The 7th Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award was handed in the main building of the Tovstonogov Big Drama Theatre.

The monument unveiling has taken place in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow today.

A family from Lipetsk has named their son after the Barcelona and Argentina football player Leonel Messi.