From March 1 to March 31 the 6th International Johann Bach Festival will be held in the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall, Yekaterinburg.

From February 25 to February 28 the dwellers of Voronezh will have a chance to watch the best Russian and foreign animated films.

The International Music Humour Festival will take place in Chelyabinsk on March 31 and April 1.

Katerina Izmaylova - the famous opera by Dmitry Shostakovich will premiere on stage of the Bolshoi Theater again.

Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace has for the first time become the best-seller in Great Britain, The Guardian reports.

The Muzeon Park of Arts is launching the exhibition project The Museum in Muzeon, which will run for a whole year from February 15.

The work on the new screen version of the novel Anna Karenina is coming to an end.

The International Winter Arts Festival kicked off in Sochi on Saturday. Musicians from Russia, Japan and Iran performed at the opening ceremony concert.

The exhibition Crimea in Photos of the 1880s-1910s from the Russian Museum Collection was opened in the Stroganov Palace on Wednesday.

Educational lectures and African music concerts will take place in the framework of the festival.