A 500 sq m large portrait of Yury Gagarin has appeared the ice and snow covered Lake Velye in the Pskov Region.

The British actor and film director Ralph Fiennes plans to make a biopic about the famous Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

One of the pioneers of gravitation and wave research, Vladimir Braginsky dedicated several decades to gravitation waves.

Sergey Filin, the former art director of the Bolshoi Theatre's ballet troupe may possibly leave Russia.

Outstanding figures of the Russian theatre were distinguished with Oleg Tabakov Award in the run-up to the World Theatre Day.

The popular actors Konstantin Khabensky and Veniamin Smekhov will appear on stage of the Mariinsky Theater in the Prokofiev project.

The film director and animator Konstantin Bronzit was not upset about failure to win Oscar for his animated film.

The program includes the premiere of the documentary Francophonie directed by Alexander Sokurov.

The legendary Russian rock band Aquarium gave an unexpected gig in an underground passage in Omsk on February 23.

The Russian baritone Dmitry Khvorostovsky sang to a full house on stage of the Carnegie Hall in New York on Wednesday, February 17.