Russia’s first museum on the art of handwriting – Modern Museum of Calligraphy – will open in Moscow.

From 14 to 16 August the First International Fiery Straw Festival will be held in the Buferny Park, St. Petersburg.

An archeological expedition working in the vicinity of Ksizovo Settlement of Zadonsky District has come quite near to solving one of the mysteries of hoary antiquity.

The Moscow Lencom Theater will give its 1000th performance of Juno and Avos on its St. Petersburg tour, on stage of the “Vyborgsky” House of Culture.

Archeologists have found a wooden churn staff of the 11th century at the Troitsky excavation site in Veliky Novgorod. This ancient device, as specialists assume, was used by the Slavs for mixing various products, like a modern mixer.

Railroad station “Hermitage” may be built on the railway Petersburg- Sestroretsk going through the historical district of Staraya Derevnya (Old Village).

Unveiling of the monument to the famous actor Georgi Vitsin (1918-2001) took place on Saturday in Zelenogorsk town in the vicinity of Saint-Petersburg.

Famous actor Mikhail Pugovkin has died today, aged 85.

Guitars of Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page, Sting and other world legends of rock music will be used in the soundtrack for Fyodor Bondarchuk’s feature film The Inhabited Island after the cult book by the Strugatsky brothers.

A wooden compass has been found at a digging site in Pskov. The layer in which the unique find has been discovered tentatively dates back to the second half of the 16th century.