The Hermitage collection vase that cracked in France will be returned to Saint Petersburg for restoration in several days. The 19th century vase by Émile Gallé is evaluated at “hundreds of thousands euro”.

Deep-diving manned vehicles Mir-1 and Mir-2 will carry out several submersions in the southern part of Lake Baikal in order to confirm or refute assumptions that the gold train of Kolchak lies at the bottom of the lake.

This year the guest of honour at the Moscow International Book Fair opening today is India.

On September the 2nd a film crew will arrive in Altai Republic to make a film about the hero of the Great Patriotic War Arnold Meri.

Aleksandr Sokurov has launched production of his version of the famous Faustus to be shot in the suburbs of Prague.