The Private Collections Department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts opens an exhibition of porcelain of the 17th – 20th cc.

Ural archeologists have made a sensational announcement: they assume that not all the remains of the last Russian Emperor’s family members have been found so far.

October 8, 2009 will see the opening of Ivan Turgenev Museum in a house in Ostozhenka Street.

The 3rd International Modern Film Festival will be held in Moscow from October 16 to 19. The festival will be dedicated to its president, film director, actor, scriptwriter and poet Ivan Dykhovichnyy.

A monument to the outstanding Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich has been just unveiled in the Vyborgsky District of Saint Petersburg.

The Russian candidate for the Oscar Prize for the best foreign film will be Chamber №6 by film director Karen Shaknazarov.

The country’s first museum of singing art will be opened in Russia in the near future.

The largest Russian architecture festival Zodchestvo-2009 will be held in the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege” in Moscow from the 15th to 18th October.

Fans of the legendary U2 will finally see Bono and the band in Moscow on August 25, 2010.

Tajik guest worker, performing popular songs from Indian movies, has become a rising star of Russian popular music.