A former Lithuanian triathlete to cross the Lake Baikal in its widest and deepest place for two days. On Thursday morning Vidmantas Urbonas, 53, the 1998 world ultra-triathlon champion, has started its race from the cape Bezymyanniy (Nameless) in Buryatia.

International festival of popular music of young singers New Wave has been opened in Jurmala, Latvia, this week. It marks its tenth anniversary.

While bears attacked tourists in Kamchatka, in Yekaterinburg elks left the wilderness to graze in the public parks.

Two Polish tourists lost in the mountain Elbrus on July 21 found alive today, said a representative of North Caucasus Center of Ministry of emergency situations.

An unknown man who threw a smoke bomb into St. Basil's Cathedral yesterday has been detained by the police.

In St. Petersburg a two-year-old girl fell down from the window on the tenth floor and survived. It is the fourth similar case in St. Petersburg for the last two months.

Today the best of St. Petersburg’s graffitists have created new artistic pictures on boards in the streets of the city. The performance has been held to support street art, the most perspective branch of modern art.

Russian barque Kruzenshtern, one of the largest traditional sailing vessels in the world, was visited by 18 thousand people during the festival Tallinn Sea Days 2011 which was held from 15 to 17 July in the capital of Estonia.

Moscow City Racing-2011 will bring McLaren, Team Lotus, Ferrari and Red Bull pilots on July 17. The show will take place in the center of Moscow.

The capital of Russia, Moscow, may double its size. An international financial district might be established in the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye district west of Moscow.