Culture and leisure

Chairman of the Crimean Parliament Committee on the Sanatorium-Resort Complex and Tourism Alexey Chernyak said on Monday that since the reunification of the peninsula with Russia, 26 million tourists visited Crimea, and the number of tourists has increased by 76%.

French composer Alexander Desplais, who wrote the music for the Harry Potter series of films, “The King Says!” And “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, will first arrive in Moscow in the winter of 2020 to perform a new concert program for a symphony orchestra.

On Monday, the Moscow Zoo launches online video broadcasting from the enclosures of pandas Zhui and Dindin, which were brought from China.

The picture was called "Discovering Ukraine" and will be a continuation of the 2016 tape.

Horror "The Curse of Annabelle-3" Gary Doberman led the Russian box office. For the period from June 27 to June 30, the film collected more than 156.8 million rubles in Russia and the CIS countries.

More than half of the citizens have never been to a theater, museum or conservatory.

The All-Russian Theater Marathon in the Year of the Theater takes place in all 85 regions of Russia.  It started in January in Vladivostok, will end at the end of 2019 at the most western point of the country - Kaliningrad, and will reach Moscow on 28 June. 

The picture transferred to the Irbit State Museum of Fine Arts, which was considered a copy of the canvas of the Flemish painter of the 16th-17th centuries by Peter Paul Rubens, "The Position in the Coffin", according to preliminary data, turned out to be a true original.

TV host Nikolai Drozdov assessed the list of animals banned for keeping at home approved in Russia.

By September of this year, the program "Cultural standards of schoolchildren" will be included in the educational system of Russian schoolchildren.

Gathering today 3.42 million yuan or $ 497 thousand, the highest-grossing Russian film in China was the sports drama “Moving Up.”  In the fifteen days of hire, the film by Anton Megerdichev accumulated 75.47 million yuan or $ 10.95 million.

Georgia won't legally issue security guarantees for Russian tourists

The museum of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg will hold a series of master classes and lectures for British musicians in 2020 within the framework of the Year of Music of Russia and Great Britain.

The All-Russian Cultural Night event will be held throughout the country on August 24th.

The first edition of the Golden Calf, autographed by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, went under the hammer for 1 million 100 thousand rubles.