For the 140 anniversary since the birth of the great composer Sergei Rachmaninoff two CDs with ancient romance songs that belonged to his mother and grandmother have been released in his hometown of Veliky Novgorod.

The unusual monument, Russia’s only one of the kind, might appear this year in one of the streets of Zadonsk town of the Lipetsk Region.

The exhibition Elusive Destiny... Natalya Gundareva marking the 65th anniversary since the birth of the actress will be opened in Schepkin's House Museum on Friday.

June 6 will see the premiere of the film Gagarin. The First One in Space in Russian movie theaters.

Marble Palace of Petersburg is hosting Mikhail Shemyakin’s photo exhibition Sidewalks of Paris dedicated to search of unusual plots and artistic images in usual street garbage.

The well-known Russian director Stanislav Govorukhin was offended at the audience because of reaction to his movie Weekend and would probably no more shoot films.

Danila Kozlovsky will play Ostap Bender in the TV series based on Ilf and Petrov”s novels Twelve Chairs and Gold Calf.

Archeologists have found about 350 artifacts in the Pekin Hotel yard in the center of Moscow.

The main lot of the Christie's Russian Art auction — Fruit Still Life by Ilya Mashkov (1881-1944) — has been sold for $ 7.2 million, which is a record amount for the artist.

A laboratory rodent monument will be set up in the Novosibirsk Campus, near the Cytology and Genetics Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science.