The Council of Elders of Tomsk requests to remove the “insulting” monument to Chekhov from the building of Tomsk Regional Administration.

The Stable Yard built in Rostov Town of the Yaroslavl Region in the 1680s-1690s under metropolitan Ioasaf Lazarevich is the only construction of such function that has remained in Russia since that epoch.

Culture Department of the Kostroma Region has appointed a check-up on the case of damaging of the archeology monument of the 13th – 18th centuries during construction works in Kostroma.

A House-Museum devoted to the famous Eduard Uspenskiy fairy-tale character Cheburashka will be built in the Eastern administrative region of Moscow.

The monument to victims of political repressions has been destroyed in Samara. The monument was set up in Yury Gagarin Park 22 years ago.

The eviction notice came as a bolt from the blue for the conservatory in Nizhny Novgorod, since it had not been preceded by any negotiations between representatives of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese and the conservatory management.

Over the weekend the Night Wolves and Three Roads bikers clubs clashed in Zelenograd (Moscow Region). Shooting ensued, one person was killed.

A monument to the father-founder of the Republic of Udmurtia, Trofim Borisov, was recently unveiled in Izhevsk.

On Tuesday, a military ammunition disposal site exploded near the Donguz rail station in Russia’s Orenburg region, making local residents leave their houses.

As a result of excavations in Kaluga’s ancient trading area archeologists have found a wooden structure of the 18th-early19th centuries. It is supposedly a shop or a workshop.