Three administrative cases are launched against prominent Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov after his refuse to present documents on the NGOs he heads.

Moscow is agreed to consider burying self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky in Russia if there will be such a requst, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Russian billionaire and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky has found dead in his apartment in London at 11 a.m, his son-in-law, Yegor Shuppe, wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday.

The Fair Russia party has expelled two of its leading members, the father and son Gudkovs, for participating in street protests and cooperating with non-parliamentary opposition.

On Monday, March 11, a famous Soviet and Russian writer Boris Vasilyev died on the 89th year of his life.

Famous Russian actor Andrey Panin was found dead in his Moscow apartment. According to the preliminary investigation he probably fell and hit his head on the floor.

Between July 4 and 7 Mikhail Baryshnikov stars opposite Willem Dafoe in a Robert Wilson production of The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, as part of the Manchester International Festival.

The famous American classical pianist Van Cliburn, who won the first Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958, during the height of the Cold War, died from bone cancer at the age of 78 on Wednesday.