Photo credit: mos.ru (CC BY 4.0) The popular Russian film "Ice-2" about the fate of a hockey player was screened in Nicosia as part of a street festival of Russian cinema in Cyprus. On August 9, the festival will continue on the waterfront in Limassol, viewers will...
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More than 200 films will be included in the program of the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) this year. The film forum starts on August, 26, TASS reports. According to the organizers, films by representatives of 65 countries...
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Alexey Pimanov was recognized as the best director at the BRICS film festival, TASS reports. Its results were summed up on Monday, August 8. The forum was held in Shanghai online. Participants...
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The organizers of the Salzburg Festival refused to ''cancel'' Russian culture, Belcanto.ru reports. The music and theater forum is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
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''Andrey Tarkovsky. Cinema as a Prayer'' documentary, released in honor of the 90th birthday of the outstanding Soviet film director, became one of the most viewed films during live screenings at the Russian Film Festival in Brazil, TASS...
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The largest portrait of Van Gogh is being created in Sochi, Krasnodar News reports. Eleven artists began painting the large-scale graffiti in the Rosa Khutor mountain resort on Friday, July 29. Representatives of the Guinness Book of...
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The Grand Prix of the Andrei Tarkovsky Mirror International Film Festival "Mirror", which was held in the Ivanovo region for the 16th time, was awarded to the ''Working Class Heroes'' movie from by Serbian Milos Pusic. The festival was timed to...
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The interest is still high in the Hermitage expositions abroad. According to the head of the museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, it is proved by the demand for online products developed by the museum staff over the past two years,...
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The Hermitage Museum specialists plan to start researching the Arch of Triomphe in Palmyra this fall, RIA Novosti reports. According to the director...
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The scale of European sanctions in the cultural and humanitarian sphere is much larger than the...
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The Unity Songs concert, known in Russia as "Songs of Victory", took place last weekend in Buenos Aires, TASS reports. Russian singers took to the stage of...
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An exhibition of Russian artists kicked off on Saturday, July 23, in Harbin. It was opened by the head of the Russian Consulate General in Harbin, Vladimir...
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The Russian Film Festival (RFF) will cover more than 20 countries this year, TASS reports. According to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Olga Lyubimova, the festival of Russian cinema has already been...
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Another cultural center, which bears the name of the writer Maxim Gorky, began to work in Ecuador. It opened in Guayaquil, three-million-people city, according to the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The city is considered one of the financial and economic...
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The Russian-Chinese festival of physical culture and sports started the day before, on July, 20, in Harbin, China, TASS reports. The festival will last for three days, festival venues have opened not only in...
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The Tsarskoye Selo museum plans to develop cooperation with Chinese and Turkish colleagues, TASS reports. The negotiations are already being held. According to...
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The "Emperor Peter the Great and his diplomat Savva Vladislavich-Raguzinsky" historical exhibition kicked off at the Montenegrin theater Niksic. The local mayor noted the contribution of the emperor and the...
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