December 30 will see the opening of ice sculpture festival on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow. A whole ice town will be built there, with ancient palaces and fortresses, with the atmosphere of Old Rus of the 10th century and folk entertainments of that time. The opening ceremony will be accompanied by a concert with participation of folk ensembles.

Biblical festival of ice sculpture opens today in the city of Surgut (Yugra). 16 subjects from the Holy Scriptures have been incarnated in ice figures. The composition has been made by the creative team Poerika from Moscow. It took the sculptors a month and over 90 tons of ice to create the figures.

Exposition under the title ‘Russian and Chinese friendship: deep feelings embodied in snow sculptures’ is being held in the framework of the international Harbin festival of ice and snow sculpture.

Chaikovsky Moscow Conservatoire will give a festive concert of classical music on December 28.

The monument to Yuri Dolgoruki on Tverskaya Square in the very heart of Moscow is now wearing a huge red-and-white costume of Ded Moroz/Father Frost

This year about six per cent of the Russians have celebrated Christmas by the Gregorian calendar, analytics say

The Seventh International Cinema Festival Skazka/Fairy Tale has started in the White Hall of the Cinema House in Moscow

The Russian Museum invites you to an exhibition of contemporary artists dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Daniil Kharms

A memorial tablet has been open on the house where the famous Russian poet and writer Daniil Kharms lived.

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow) is going to send Henri Rousseau’s painting Jaguar Attacking a Horse to an exhibition in Paris.