The Russian director from Chechnya Inal Sheripov intends to start making a screen version of Hamlet in Japan.

“The animation project Three Athletes on Faraway Coasts by the Melnitsa Studio has become the box office hit of film distribution in the first week of the year.

Singer Zemfira has announced large-scale concert tour around Russia and the former USSR countries.

A unique exhibit - a fragment of frescos of the Hercules’ Crypt - will be presented in E.D. Felitsyn State Historical and Archaeological Memorial Estate of Krasnodar in January.

The Falanster bookstore trading in intellectual humanitarian literature has made a rating of sales for 2012.

The Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg showed the premiere of the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" directed by the Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato. This is the fourth version of the performance by the music of Sergei Prokofiev since 1976.

The editions which once were stored as "secret" appeared in public access again. "The books with and without the label" – such is the name of the exhibition which is held at the State Socio-Political Library.

Kandinsky Award was held in Moscow. This is one of the largest independent awards in the field of contemporary art in Russia.

The ceremony of the VII National Award of Uzbekistan in the field of music, TV and video art of M&TVA took place in Tashkent. Among the winners this year there are a lot of young artists, because the goal of the contest is to develop the national art and to discover new names.

The unique collections of paintings and ancient art of Murom Historical and Art Museum are under the threat of disappearance. The museum cannot receive visitors in the halls with the leaking roofs.