The film director and actor Fyodor Bondarchuk has won the prestigious Russian award Blockbuster in the nomination Person of the Year.

A personal exhibition of the Merited Artist of Russia Sergey Lazarev will be held in the Museum of Nature and Man in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk.

The crew wants to set a World record by the amount of time spent in the air in a hot air balloon.

The well-known Serbian film director Emir Kusturica wants to make "a Russian film in Russian".

As the Moscow Culture Department reports, hundreds of events dedicated to the anniversary since the poet’s birth have been planned.

The Tambov Regional Art Gallery will hold the personal art exhibition Destiny Bowl of Valery Maloletkov.

Actors Elena Lyadova, Anton Shagin and Svetlana Hodchenkova will play in the film Dovlatov.

The feature film Time of the First about the space exploration will be directed by Dmitry Kiselev instead of Yury Bykov.

The prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has awarded the 36-year-old actor Yevgeny Tsyganov with the state award of one million rubles.

The Sunstroke by Nikita Mikhalkov is not going to win the Oscar prize: the film has not made it into the short list.