Culture and leisure

Most of the visitors were from China, Germany, Israel, France, Italy, Spain and India

The festival of contemporary Russian cinema "New Russian Film" will be held in the Czech Republic in September and October of this year. In total, the festival will host five cities, reports TASS with reference to the press secretary of the Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic Nikolay Bryakin.

Quentin Tarantino called Timur Bekmambetov his favorite contemporary Russian director. About this he told the publication RIA Novosti.

Involved in the murder of a popular in the 90-ies of the singer in the style of chanson, a former assassin gang "the Tver wolves" Alexander Ageev has pleaded guilty

In China found fossils of the biggest forests in the Devonian period and the most ancient forests in Asia, reported in Current Biology.