Week of Russian Culture will be held in Iran for the first time in the framework of a three-year-long program of cultural cooperation of Iran and Russian Federation.

Olesya Nikolayeva (born 1955), the author of a book of verses and several novels, has taken the Poet Award and $50 thousand.

The second week of general release of the computer-animated film 'Ice Age-2' in Russia continues to set new records of Russian box-office.

On April 18 and May 18, the Days of Moscow historical heritage, you can visit any museums and art galleries of Moscow for free.

Russian scientist Mikhail Anikin from St.-Petersburg wants to go to law against the author of the bestseller 'The Da Vinci Code'.

Sovremennik, one of the best Moscow theatres, marked its 50th jubilee with the premiere of the “old“ play “Pyat Vecherov“ (“Five Evenings“) by famous dramatist Alexander Volodin on Tuesday.

Moscow is holding a range of events dedicated to the International day of prisoners' liberation from fascist death camps.

The legendary Ukraninan rock group Vopli Vidoplyasova, while completing the recording of its new album Buli Denki (There Were Days), arrives in Moscow with a concert tour.

The Heraldic Council of the Russian Federation has approved of the replacement of the bass-relieves depicting the USSR state emblem at the building of the reconstructed Bolshoi Theatre with those of the historic national emblem of Russia of 1856.

At the end of April Moscow is expected to brighten up in the course of a street painting project in the framework of the seminar 'Streets and Buildings of Moscow - Urban Environment of the Third Millennium'.