Culture and leisure

The competition of flagship projects of the social movement "Culture Volunteers" starts on August 1. 

Taiwan extended to July 31, 2020 a visa-free regime for citizens of Russia, as well as Thailand, Brunei and the Philippines.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened on Thursday the VDNKh Museum and congratulated the exhibition team on its 80th anniversary, noting that over the years it has become a cult place for the capital and Russia as a whole.

In the United States canceled the jubilee, 50th in a row, the festival of rock music "Woodstock". This was announced on August 1 by Variety magazine.

The episode "Masha plus porridge" of the Russian cartoon "Masha and the Bear" was the only animated video that received more than 4 billion views on YouTube.

A member of the musical group Rammstein, keyboardist Christian Flake Lorenz said that he considers Mikhail Gorbachev a hero. This was reported on August 1 by Izvestia.