Moscow is preparing for the New Year festival - this is the format of celebrating the holidays this year.

The number of the cleaners attracted to the cleaning of the three central sites in Moscow after the celebration of the New Year will be increased threefold.

The operation “Fir-tree” against the illegal logging of the fir-trees starts in Moscow on the New Year`s eve and will last until December 31.

All-Russian Grandfather Frost has come to Moscow with the important New Year mission - to light up the fires on the Christmas tree in Gorky Park on December 24.

The police in Moscow will work in a robust security regime on the Eve of New Year and Christmas. On the New Year's Eve the order in the city centre will be supported by more than 5.8 thousand people from the Interior Ministry.

Russian opposition activists plan to hold a rally urging to repeal a new law banning adoptions of Russian children by American citizens and dissolve the Russian Parliament.

On Saturday, December 29, a Russian Tupolev Tu-204 medium-haul airliner overshot the runway while landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, stopping on the nearby Kievskoe highway.

Christmas gifts, hand-crafted toys and handmade jewelry are presented at the "Fair of Good Deeds" that opened on the Poklonnaya hill.

Gerard Depardieu, a popular French actor, does not exclude the possibility of becoming a citizen of Belgium, Montenegro or Russia.

This opinion was expressed at the "round table" devoted to the question of PTV launch by the chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights Development Mikhail Fedotov.