“Happiness in Chocolate” is the name of the New Year and Christmas exhibition held in the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow.

The damage caused by vandals to the museum house of Mikhail Bulgakov is valued at over 100 thousand dollars. Among the lost museum exhibits there are paintings endowed to the museum by various artists.

The well-known Russian cellist Valentin Berlinsky has been favored with the highest award of France

One of Hollywood film companies is planning to screen the book co-written by the murdered FSB agent Alexandr Litvinenko, Sunday Times informs.

The Culture Committee of the Moscow State Duma has approved the suggestion to set up a monument to the characters of the popular Russian and Georgian film Mimino.

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow will be displaying for the first time the painting “Tarquin and Lucretia” by the great Flemish painter Peter Rubens.

For five years on end gigantic sand sculptures are built on the Christmas Eve in the Italian resort town of Jesolo on the Adriatic seacoast.

Dom Matyushina (The House of Matyushin), a branch of the Museum of Petersburg Avant-garde opens in the city on the Neva River.

The ancient church which had inspired the famous Russian artist Vasili Polenov (1844-1927) for the painting “A Moscow Yard” has been recently restored.

The exhibition “A Bow from the Kremlin” presenting Russian pre-revolutionary picture postcards, has opened in the Patriarshy Palace of the Moscow Kremlin Museum.