The First International Photo Festival was held on October 24-27 in Suzdal, in "Pushkarskaya Sloboda" Hotel. Organizers expect to make the festival an annual event and to turn Suzdal into Russia’s main photographic stage.

"Sluice Gates. Polar Shift”, an unprecedented Russian-Dutch project-exhibition started in the Moscow Planetarium. A complex conceptual exhibition, which was opened in the Netherlands Year in Russia, is part of the Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts exhibition, where Planetarium takes part for the first time.

75th anniversary of Primorsky Krai was celebrated in Vladivostok. For the time of celebrations the movement of vehicles on the bridge across the Golden Horn Bay was temporarily stopped.

As part of the "Quality Mark. Soviet Agitprom” exhibition, the first master class on the production of Soviet style gift wrappings was held in in the Chelyabinsk Regional Museum of Local History. Schoolchildren from Miass discovered the art of Soviet handmade.

Construction and restoration works at Novosibirsk Regional Studies Museum will be completed by December 30. In three years 160 million rubles was allocated for the reconstruction of institution. General construction and restoration works are carried out in the halls located in the basement.

“Heart of Baikal” film festival was held from October 18 to 24 in Irkutsk. The goal of the film festival is to revive classic spiritual, moral, and family values such as devotion in marriage. Famous Russian theater and film actors agreed to take part in the festival.

The Caucasus Branch of "MegaFon" OJSC has become the official supplier of communications services to Krasnodar, Sochi, Belgorod, North Ossetia, Dagestan and Mineralovodskoe customs offices. According to the results of the public tenders, six regional offices of the Federal Customs Service in three federal districts of Russia became the new corporate customers of "MegaFon".

The reconstruction of 0.4 kV air lines 4.5 kilometers long was carried out in the settlement Abyi of Abyisky Ulus, the installation of the new wire 7.4 kilometers long was completed in the settlements Haryialakh and Eyik of Oleneksky Ulus.

Three large diamonds have been found at once by prospectors in one of the minefields of Yakutia.

The Governor of Magadan Oblast Vladimir Pechyonyi discussed drug control methods with the heads of law enforcement agencies. The meeting recalled the recent attempt to carry a large amount of drugs to Magadan Oblast through the neighboring region - Yakutia - by an ethnic criminal group.