Culture and leisure

Moscow for the first time organizes the Planet of the Ballet festival, which will be held from August 19 to September 8. The venue was chosen for the Palace of Youth.

The creators of the cult TV series "Game of Thrones" David Benioff and D. B. Weiss left the company HBO, which collaborated for over 10 years. According to The Hollywood Reporter, their new “home” will be another streaming service, for example, Disney + or Amazon.

Russian President Vladimir Putin positively assessed the growth of museums' incomes by 2.5 times in recent years.

The chimpanzee, still famous for its good temper, in front of the visitors of the zoo in the French department of Loire, bit off the hand of an employee who looked after it, the newspaper Progres writes.

In St. Petersburg, the design of a new building for storing documents from the Central State Historical Archive and the Central State Archive of Literature and Art began. 

A trailer of a Russian serial about the events in Chernobyl, filmed by the NTV channel, has appeared on the network. 

Russian hip-hop artist Vasily Vakulenko, among the people - Basta, became the most successful musician in Russia according to the Forbes version.

In the first place - the champion of the Absolute Fighting Championship (UFC) in lightweight champion Habib Nurmagomedov

Soon the new Quentin Tarantino film “Once in Hollywood” will be released, where the audience will see for the first time a duet of two Hollywood actors.

The Russians can use bows and crossbows for hunting, registering weapons with the Rosguards.