Culture and leisure

About 12 thousand New Year's gifts from Chechnya were delivered to children from the Donetsk People's Republic.

The popular actress Nastasya Samburskaya announced her departure from Russia in the banned social network Instagram, owned by the American company Meta Platforms Inc.

The Milan Opera House "La Scala" will continue to stage Russian ballets.

Russians have massively stopped traveling to Europe — the flow from Russia in 2022 decreased by 80-90 percent. Dmitry Gorin, Vice-president of the Russian Union of Tourism Industry, told Izvestia about this.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin presented Muscovites with state awards and decorations of the City of Moscow, the award ceremony took place in the White Hall of the Moscow City Hall on Monday.

The Cinema Foundation has started accepting applications for a new scholarship program "Author" to support young screenwriters, the executive director of the foundation Fyodor Sosnov

The new owners of Bazelevs, directed and produced by Timur Bekmambetov, were the general producer of the film studio Lala Rustamova and general director Timur Asadov, the press service of the studio told Interfax.

 State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party Yaroslav Nilov called for December 31 to be fixed as a day off, postponing it from January 8.

Almost six thousand Russian tourists who were stuck in Egypt due to the cancellation of iFly flight programs returned to their homeland on Thursday,

A New Year's tree was installed in the first building of the Moscow Kremlin.

The State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill banning the fishing of whales, dolphins, killer whales and porpoises for educational

The Asian Forum of Cultural Cooperation is being held in China these days. The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Olga Lyubimova also visited Hong Kong

The first regional restoration center of valuable documents and books in Russia has opened in Nizhny Novgorod, the Ministry of Culture reported.

Rapper Oxxxymiron (Miron Fedorov, recognized in Russia as a foreign agent) was fined 45 thousand rubles for discrediting the armed forces. This is reported by the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.

The Russian film industry faces the task of raising the amount of national content to 70%, said Fyodor Sosnov, Executive director of the Cinema Foundation.