A rare manuscript edition of the preserved first five chapters of the burnt second volume of Nikolay Gogol’s “Dead Souls” has been found in the USA.

Grigory Chkhartishvili, who writes under the penname of Boris Akunin, has not been allowed to enter Uzbekistan for collecting writing materials.

The posh concert hall Barvikha Luxury Village is getting ready for the performance of the world jazz treasure. This is how music critics call Al Jarreau, one of the most titled jazz vocalists.

The Russian rock band DDT has recorded an album jointly with the priest of Dneporpetrovsk Eparchy Yevgeny Maksimenko.

Saint Petersburg theatre lovers claimed the play Diary of a Madman (after Gogol’s story of the same name) presented by Renata Livinova to be “outright hackwork” and sued the actress for it.

Film director David Lynch is coming to Moscow for the opening of his personal exhibitions - Fetish and The Air is on Fire.

A copy of the Bronze Soldier, a monument to liberators of Tallinn from fascist aggressors, will be soon set up in the Esto-Sadok Settlement of Sochi, where ethnic Estonians live.

Archeologists of the North Exploration Institute of RAN have found some nearly destroyed constructions in the form of rectangles, semicircles, trenches and gutters near Chepkul Lake in Tyumen Region.

The film company 20th Century Fox presently negotiates with Russian producers about joint production of ten projects, among them Onegin with Fyodor Bondarchuk’s Art Pictures Studio and Chuzhaya with Igor Tolstunov’s Profit Company.

An exhibition of Nikolai Roerich’s paintings held in one of the schools of Syktyvkar will have to be closed under the pressure of Syktyvkar and Vorkuta Eparchy of Russian Orthodox Church.