Culture and leisure

People's Artist of Russia Nikolai Baskov has closed his film studio "Royal Mountain", which he founded with actress Alexandra Yakovleva. This is reported by the Telegram channel Mash.

In Moscow, two Chinese citizens wanted to take pictures of a panorama near the Polytechnic Museum on a Mavic 3 Pro quadcopter and ended up in the police. This was reported by the Baza publication in the Telegram channel.

The ski resorts Krasnaya Polyana, Arkhyz and Lagonaki intend to build 550 kilometers of trails and in the future they are preparing to receive at least five million tourists a year, Vadim Trukshin

The State Duma Commission to investigate the facts of foreign interference in the internal affairs of Russia has asked the Ministry of Justice to conduct an audit against the writer Boris Akunin

The Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language has chosen "neural network" as the word of 2023, according to experts, it captures the most relevant trends of the outgoing year

Uzbekistan supports Russia's initiative to hold the Intervision song contest for the CIS countries, Uzbek Prime Minister Abdullah Aripov said on Monday.

A cat was caught in the Hermitage, who lived in the air duct of the Winter Palace premises, and at night left traces of his stay in the exhibition halls, said Andrey Fedorov, a volunteer at the Koshkispas animal rescue center.

Rapper Macan became the "Artist of the Year" for the second year in a row, his tracks have gained more than a billion listens. About this reported the press service of VKontakte.

In the mountains of Sochi, weather conditions made it possible to form a stable snow cover for the preparation of ski slopes, so Rosa Khutor is ready to open them for skiing already on December 8

A special service aggregator of opportunities will be launched in Moscow on the eve of the International Day of Disabled People, Anastasia Rakova

The domestic e-book market has returned to its previous growth rates: in the third quarter of 2023, it added 31 percent, increasing to 3.3 billion rubles.

More than 4.7 million tourists visited Crimea in ten months of 2023, and the tourist flow is expected to grow to 5 million by the end of the year, Vadim Volchenko

During the work of the international exhibition-forum "Russia" in Moscow at VDNH on the initiative of the national tourism portal Russia.

The most popular hobbies among Russians in 2023 were fashion and beauty, cooking and gardening