Sergei Loznitsa’s film In the Fog took a prize of the International Federation of Film Critics in the main competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.

An exhibition of candy and chocolate wrappers has been opened in the premises of the Vladimir-Suzdal Memorial Estate.

Documentary film Citizen Poet. Run of the Year about the sensational poetic project by Dmitrii Bykov, Mikhail Yefremov, and Andrey Vasiliev and the start of protest movement in Russia has been released in Russia.

Ralph Simon – the producer of the world famous singer Lady Gaga – reports that a song in Russian will shortly appear in her repertoire.

The exhibition will consist of 44 portraits of the Russian rock star Viktor Tsoi.

Museum of Thimbles has opened in Kopeisk town of the Chelyabinsk Region.

The Trikita Entertainment Company will produce a new screen version of Alexander Beliaev’s famous fantastic novel Amphibian Man.

Museum "Mountain Pharmacy" dedicated to the history of development of chemist's business in Altai has opened in Barnaul.

Russia's first ever monument to the businessman will appear in Yekaterinburg, in 2013.

During excavations in the Rostov Region archeologists have found artifacts of the Roman Empire, among them the helmet of an ancient Roman legionary.