Paintings and art objects from collection of Francois Pinault, owner of the Christie's auctioning house and one of the most influential people in the realm of modern art will be shown in Moscow in February 2009.

The legendary Russian comedy film We are from Jazz (My iz dzhaza) (1983) about a band of ill-starred musicians from Odessa will be continued.

Saint Petersburg militia undertook measures to return Leonardo da Vinci’s sculpture to the Hermitage Museum.

More than half (54 per cent)of entire Russian population almost never go to cinema, results of the poll recently held all over Russia, say.

Winners of the international competition among foreign manga artists have been announced in Japan.

Model of a sculpture composition dedicated to rebuilding of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia has been created by artist Nikolai Rogatnev from Lipetsk.

Archeologists have discovered a sensation in the South Ural: the unique find is the 7th century B.C. crypt of Prince of the Saki tribe.

The famous Central House of Artist in Krymsky Val, Moscow, will be pulled down when a new building for artists has been built.

Archeologists have found remains of an unknown ancient building at the excavation near the Faceted Palace in the Novgorod Kremlin.

Exhibition of icon painter Alexander Chashkin and wood carvers and sculptors Inessa and Rashid Azbukhanovs will open in Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery in the centre of Moscow, on August 26.