The Bolshoi Saint Petersburg State Circus on Fontanka has celebrated its 130th anniversary.

The first night in the restored building of the Bolshoi Theater will be the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka. The performance will be given for the first time on October 1, 2009.

The 1st Moscow Architecture Biennale will be held in the Russian capital in May-June 2008.

The exhibition of world painting masterpieces from the four major museums of Russia has acquired a real opportunity to go to London, as Head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography Mikhail Shvydkoi has reported today to ITAR-TASS.

The Russian Museum (St. Petersburg) for the first time exhibits all the works by the eminent artist Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842-1910) from its funds.

Real bloody assault and battery happened at the concert of the famous Russian rock band Alisa that took place in the B1 Maximum club on December 23.

Monument to the legendary American poet Walt Whitman will be set up on the territory of the Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, in 2008.

Folklore Theatre of the Peoples Artist of Russia Lyudmila Ryumina has recently opened in the building of the former Ukraina cinema.

The much promising sequel The Irony of Fate 2, or Enjoy Your New Happiness! directed by Timur Bekmambetov gathered $ 7 million within the first weekend of its general release.

The issue of bringing to London the exhibition From Russia: French and Russian Painting Masterpieces of 1870-1925 from collections of the four largest museums of Russia will be finally decided in early January.