Last Saturday saw a ceremony of presenting Moscow with a French architectural ensemble now embellishing one of the entrances to Kievskaya metro station.

The First All-Russian Festival of Prison Theatres is expected to take place in Russia in the near future.

The State Hermitage Museum yesterday got back Jean-Leon Gerome’s painting Harem Pool, which was stolen from the museum in March 2001.

Russian ice sculptors have won the victory over 46 teams from all over the world at the contest in Harbin.

On February 9 Yevgeni Grishkovetz and Bigoudi band will present their new album under the title Secunda (A Second) in Apelsin Club, Moscow.

The new, yet uncompleted art-centre Vinzavod (Winery) in Moscow yesterday opened the exhibition “Veryu” (I Believe) arranged by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia has been recognized by British critics as the best foreign theatre of 2006.

The famous tandem of producer Sergei Selyanov and film director Aleksei Balabanov (Mne ne bolno / It Doesn't Hurt (2006), Zhmurki / Blind Man's Bluff (2005), Brat / The Brother (1997), Brat 2 / The Brother 2 (2000)) plan a new original project.

The Russian city of Blagoveshchensk took part in shooting of a Chinese TV serial about militia. The 24-series film about hard working life of Russian and Chinese militiamen is titled “White Snow”.

From January 24 to March 11 the Galeyev Gallery will be holding an exhibition of autolithographs by the prominent Leningrad artist of the 20th century Gerta Nemenova (1905 - 1986).