The film director Alexey Fedorchenko will create a movie based on the story The Kid by the Strugatsky Brothers.

From January 22 in the History Museum in Moscow will display how children used to dress in the century before the last one.

Museum of poetess Olga Berggolts has been opened at School No. 340 of Nevsky District in Saint Petersburg.

Outstanding actor Sergey Yursky has been conferred with Stanislavsky 17th International Prize.

The Lumiere Brothers Center, Moscow, has opened an exhibition dedicated to the relay of Olympic flame and the start of campaign for selecting the torch bearers for the forthcoming winter Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi.

ART PERM festival - one of the brightest projects in the city – has been started in Perm.

The authorities of Skolkovo Settlement, Moscow Region, will not transfer the settlement, despite archeologists' statement that the future building site is harboring ruins of Prince Alexander Menshikov’s Palace dated to the 18th century.

One of the major finds of Siberian archeologists in 2012 – several hundred artifacts unearthed in an ancient ritual complex age about 3 thousand years old - will be restored by Kuzbass scientists.

This year the legendary band System of a Down will be the headliner of the fifth anniversary rock festival Kubana, traditionally held on the Black Sea coast of Krasnodar Territory in August.

Paris authorities didn`t give their permission to construct a memorial to the Blessed Pope John Paul II by the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli near the Cathedral of the Polish Catholic Mission in France.