Museum of the journalist and writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky will be opened in Moscow at the end of 2011.

Artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have taken the Cartier Award for the best art project of the year. The jury of the award founded by the jeweler company has distinguished their work The Wind of Tolerance.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s book has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award in the Collection category.

Translation Institute that will promote prestige of the profession and provide financial support to translation projects will appear in Russia, the deputy head of State Press Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Grigoryev reported.

In the course of reconstruction works in Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow archeologists have found a construction of the Mesolithic epoch on the territory of the ancient Petrovsky Village.

According to the chief archeologist of Moscow Alexander Veksler, Moscow is much more ancient than it is considered to be.

An exhibition dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte will be opened in the History Museum of Moscow on September, 20th.

The international design festival Design Act has been opened at the Winzavod Art Centre on Tuesday.

History Museum opens the exhibition Master of Moscow for the 200th anniversary since the birthday of the most well-known capital governor general Vladimir Dolgorukov.

An unusual action is taking place in the Runet: Russian bloggers have decided to support the animator Yuriy Norshteyn and collect assets required to complete his animated film The Overcoat after the story by Nikolai Gogol.