The permanent exposition of the Museum of Moscow History to be housed in the complex of Proviantsie Sklady (Provision Storehouses) will present the evolution of the city from the Middle Ages to the present day.

November 27 saw the opening of the exhibition “Icon Painting of Romanovs’ Epoch” presenting rare icons of the 17th-20th centuries in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Aleksei Balabanov’s twelfth picture Morphia based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s autobiographical “Notes of a Young Doctor” goes on general release in Russia today.

Remains of Biysk Trinity Cathedral and a sepulchral vault with tombs of the town head and other honorary dwellers have been found during archeological diggings in Biysk. The cathedral was exploded in 1934.

Today the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege” in Moscow opens a photo exhibition dedicated to life of the outstanding Russian writer and public figure, Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Filming of the first Russian high budget superhero blockbuster will be launched in December. The famous film director Timur Bekmambetov will be the film producer.

From 12 December 2008 to 17 January 2009 the gallery “Diehl + Gallery One” in Moscow will be housing an exhibition of the Chinese artist and sculptor Zhang Huan.

Nine entombments of the Scythian epoch (III - II cc BC) have been discovered in the course of common excavations at a local asphalt plant in Altai Republic.

In 2009 a monument to General Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev will be set up between Lubyansky Proezd and Staraya Square in Moscow.

Today the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, has opened an exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversary since birthday of the illustrious artist Vladimir Borovikovsky.