On Tuesday Alla Bayanova, the Russian famous romance singer and People's Artist of Russia, has died of cancer in her 98th year in one Moscow's hospice.

On Monday the jailed oil magnate and outspoken Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky published his first regular column in the opposition Russian weekly The New Times newspaper.

Russia's Alice Krylova has become the winner of the 2011 Mrs. Globe beauty contest, which took place in Rancho Mirage town, California.

Olga Martynova, a bilingual Russian novelist, has become the first-ever Russian winner of the Roswitha Prize, the oldest German-language literary award, which is given exclusively for women.

Well-known Russian actress Iya Savvina died on Saturday, August, 27th, aged 75.

As August is drawing to a close, we thought we'd list the articles about famous Russians that appeared at Russia-InfoCentre over the last month. Click through to read articles about Russia's own "Forever27" club, plus Russian painters, top-models and tennis-players

The Russian Orthodox Church is turning its attention to the work of journalists and to the quality of articles about religious life in Russian press.

Activists from the EKA environmental movement are starting a long-term crusade against carrier bags with a flashmob on Moscow's Pushkinskaya Square on Thursday.

A former senior Russian police officer was detained on Tuesday in connection with the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Russian Foreign Prime Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that political power would soon be in "the hands of rebel forces" and that the conflict could have been resolved much earlier.