This film has also been included into the main contest program of the Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi.

The short-list of Russia’s greatest literary award The Big Book consists of nine writers.

Russian film director Andrei Zvyagintsev has been awarded the prize of he international jury headed by Pedro Almodovar at the 70th Cannes Film Festival.

Over a year, more than 4.1 million people visited the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

The legendary American rock band performed the hit Dream On in support of Manchester, where over 20 people had been killed in a terrorist attack on May 23.

May 23 saw the opening of the 21st Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Festival at the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater.

The premiere of The Loveless was followed with a 10-minute ovation to the film director Andrey Zvyagintsev, actor Alexei Rosin, actress Maryana Spivak and producer Alexander Rodnyansky.

Visitors are welcomed to spend Museum Night at the lecture hall of the Moscow Kremlin Museum in Manezhna Street on May 20.

Three Russian-language films at once are participating in the Cannes Film Festival: Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Meek by Sergei Loznitsa and Closeness by Kantemir Balagov.

May 17 will see the opening of the photo exhibition Energy of Love dedicated to people with disabilities.