Russian hockey player and NHL star Alexander Ovechkin broke a camera of Russian correspondent. Such an aggression was caused by the defeat of the Russian hockey team at the Vancouver Olympics.

The outstanding film director Vladimir Motyl – the 83 year-old author of the cult Russian feature films Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha and White Sun of the Desert - died on Monday, February 22 in Moscow.

The People’s Artist of the USSR - the celebrated opera mezzo soprano singer Irina Arkhipova - has died at the age of 85 in Moscow.

One of Russian web-sites conducted a poll to find out what things are actually useless for most of the Russians.

A bright film star of the 1990s, one of the most beautiful women of Russian cinema - Anna Samokhina - has died of cancer, aged 47.

The tendency of the Russian population to gradually shorten seems to have stopped, the head of the Russian Ministry of Health said.