The movie 2012 by Roland Emmerich has smashed box-office record among foreign feature films in Russia.

The archeological finds discovered at the area of New Jerusalem Monastery, the Moscow Region, include artifacts dating to the first millennium BC.

A monument of architecture, the country house of Vasili Khludov, the founder of the Sochi Riviera Park, has been demolished as non-restorable.

Construction of new buildings in the historical centre of Petersburg must be prohibited, the famous film-director Alexander Sokurov claimed at a sitting of the All-Russian Society for Protection of Culture Monuments on Wednesday.

A joint expedition of Russian and Korean archeologists studying a site of Balhae Era resulted in finding evidences that prove existence of a big administrative centre in the Primorye Territory in the 9th - 11th centuries.

From November 26 to January 24, 2010 the exhibition halls of Andriaka Watercolor School will be displaying the exposition “Watercolor and Graphic Art from Collection of A.G. Yegorov. Russian and West-European Atists of the 16th - mid 20th cc”.

Monument to poet, sculptor and artist Kosta Khetagurov has been unveiled in Saint Petersburg.

It is decided to mark the 65th anniversary of the first war New Year party, which took place on December 29, 1944.

A documentary film about the life of Leo Tolstoy will go on general release in Russia next year, marking the 100th anniversary since the writer’s death.

From 9 to 13 December the central exhibition hall Expocenter will be holding the 8th exhibition fair of folk arts and crafts of Russia Ladia-2009.