Culture and leisure

The traffic on Vyborgskaya Street in Moscow was blocked due to a fire in the State Archive of Literature and Art, the press service of the Traffic Management Center (CTO) reports.

Today, the famous director Pavel Lungin is 70 years old. Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a celebrity a telegram in which he congratulated him on his jubilee.

A frequent cause of overfeeding is the food from the table, which pets beg for from their owners.

Serbian director Emir Kusturica considers Russian composers to be the best in the world. The works they created are “one of the strongest arguments” of Russian culture, the director is convinced.

French director Luc Besson in an interview with RBC-Style explained the interest of Hollywood film studios in Russian history and related films.

In St. Petersburg, blind musician Danila Bolshakov played the burning piano, 78.ru writes.

In the Serbian ethnic settlement Drvengrad, the Kustendorf Classic Festival of Classical Music started, organized by Emir Kusturica. The forum opened with the performance of viola player Yuri Bashmet.

Mattel has released a series of Barbie toys in honor of Samantha Cristoforetti - the only female astronaut who is a member of the European Space Agency. Reports the AdAge edition about it.