Exhibition “Destinies during the Great Patriotic War: Letters and Memoirs of Jewish Red Army Soldiers” has been opened in the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.

The Rock over Volga Festival in Samara will present the Rammstein band as the headliner with its 1,5-hour set within its world tour Wir Halten Das Tempo.

KuklaYA - a biennial exhibition of design dolls and toys will take place in the Amber Plaza exhibition hall from May 17 to May 19.

Firebird - the traditional 8th Festival of Folk Artists of Russia – will be held in the All-Russia Exhibition Centre from May 7 to May 11.

The Blur band will be the headliner of the main stage of the Moscow Open-Air Afisha Picnic Festival.

On May 17 the Museum of Moscow will open the exhibition Fashion in the Mirror of History: 200 Years of Fashion in Russia.

May 1 marked the 85th anniversary since the birthday of the well-known Petersburg film director Vitaly Melnikov.

Petersburg city defenders have addressed supervisory authorities and mass media with a letter appealing to stop demolition of the historical part of Vyborg.

Lumiere Brothers Photography Center presents a Victory Day exhibition by the British pictorialist James Hill, one of the leading world press photographers, the holder of the Pulitzer Award.

The Central House of Artist in Moscow has opened an exhibition titled Serbia from Russian Artists’ Palette.