The most favourite book of the Russian readers turned to be The Master and Margarita, according to results of the poll by the research centre of SuperJob portal.

Earlier Gulag Archipelago was optional for study at the secondary school. Now the novel has been included in the federal component of educational standards.

Shooting of the film PyraMMMid has been launched in Moscow. It is a screen version of the autobiographical story by Sergei Mavrodi about the most much-talked-of financial fraud in Russia of the 20th century.

Novgorod State Museum Reserve has reported sensational news: restorers in Veliki Novgorod have found new fragments of monumental painting, which was probably created by legendary Theophanes the Greek.

The monument to the outstanding commander was supposed to appear by the metro station Kitai-gorod. The decision was taken several years ago, and this year it was expected to be finally implemented.

In 2010 a branch of the State Hermitage Museum will be open in Vyborg, in the historical building of a school build by Finnish architect Uno Ullberg.

The architectural monument destroyed by German army in the middle of the last century will be restored in the Borodino Museum Reserve.

Archeologists in Kaliningrad Region find artifacts that even the British Museum cannot boast. The finds were unearthed at the digging site of Kaup settlement in Zelenograd District of Kaliningrad Region.

Russian film director Timur Bekmambetov together with Hollywood filmmaker Tim Burton are going to produce the sequel of full-length animation 9 to be released on September 9th this year.

The Russian Orthodox Church has denounced appearance of a quotation from the USSR national anthem mentioning Joseph Stalin in the interior design of the restored entry to Kurskaya metro station.