The 3rd International Festival and School TERRITORY will be running in Moscow from 30 September to 10 October 2008.

The long-awaited concert of the legendary Deep Purple celebrating its 40th anniversary on stage has been prohibited for reasons of fire safety in Nizhni Novgorod.

Sculpture after Ilya Repin’s famous painting “The Zaporozhye Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan” has been set up in Krasnodar city.

Amazing enormous constructions of stone - megaliths - some of them weighing up to 20 tons, were erected in the Isle of Vera, Lake Turgoyak of Chelyabinsk Region.

Prisoners in the Irkutsk Region will be taught to paint orthodox icons. Irkutsk Eparchy is going to organize icon painting workshops on the basis of Irkutsk Penal Colony-3.

This year Novgorod archeologists keep surprising us with new and unusual finds! Yesterday at the digging pit near Faceted Palace of Novgorod Kremlin they found a paling that had remained there since 10th century.

The author of ironic detectives Daria Dontsova has become leader of two ratings of the Russian Book Chamber for the first half of year 2008: by total number of copies (almost 4 million) and titles of books in press (68).

Archeologists have found 120 kg of amber that had remained underground for more than eight centuries.

Anna Melikyan’s film The Mermaid (Rusalka) has been nominated for Oscar Prize in the Best Foreign Film category.

September 22 saw the opening ceremony of the international animation festival “KROK” in St. Petersburg.