In the beginning of the next year the Petersburg publishers Astrel-Spb are going to publish a novel written by a computer.

From the 7th to the 11th December Sochi will be for the first time hosting the festival On the Wave of Italian Culture.

Last Thursday the list of the nominees for the famous Grammy music prize was announced in Los Angeles.

The restoration of the outstanding monument of architecture, the Ascension of Our Lord Church in Kolomenskoe Museum Reserve (Moscow), has been completed. The unveiling ceremony will take place on December 12.

Alexander Ilichevsky has won the Russian Booker Prize-2007 with his novel Matisse. The laureate will be awarded with 20 thousand dollars, while the other five finalists will get two thousand dollars each.

The film director Boris Khlebnikov will have his new film about adventures of a Byelorussian migrant worker Mad Help (Sumashedshaya Pomosh) finished by the beginning of the next year.

The municipality of Yaroslavl has assigned 40 million rubles to build a mock-up of the ancient Russian town, where a historical feature film will be made by the millennium of Yaroslavl.

The legendary chamber singer Zara Doluhanova will be followed to her grave tomorrow in Moscow. She died on December 4, aged 90.

The exhibition ‘Leningrad Photo-Underground’ recently opened in the Stroganov Palace of the Russian Museum presents 98 non-conformist photos of the 1960s-1980s.

A new literary prize recently established in Moscow commemorates the outstanding poet, translator and publisher Ilya Kormiltsev who died of cancer in February 2007.