The final of the international beauty contest Miss Earth took place in Tirana, the capital of Albania yesterday.

The award ceremony took place in the framework of celebrating the Day of Moscow Region.

An interactive museum of the stage director Yuri Lyubimov has been opened at the Taganka Theater.

Alexandra Mikhailova has taken a prize at the 70th International Contest of Bayan Players and Accordionists “World Cup” in Italy.

Natalia Osipova, the prima of the Royal London Ballet has become the prima ballerina of the Perm Opera and Ballet House.

The average size of a payday loan has grown in all age categories of borrowers over the year.

The share of Russians who are in some or other way involved in the informal labor makes up 44.8 percent of the working population.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous novel The Red Wheel will be first published in English thanks to an anonymous donation.

August 26 will see a music festival commemorating the legendary rock singer Victor Tsoi.

After a long illness, the famous Russian stage and film actress Vera Glagoleva died at the age of 62.