Culture and leisure

In 2022, more than 419 thousand new cases of obesity were registered in Russia, RBC reports, citing data published in the Rosstat collection "Healthcare in Russia-2023".

The winner of the most prestigious Japanese literary award Akutagawa for the current year, 33-year-old Rie Kudan admitted that about 5% of the sentences in her winning novel "Tokyo Tower of Sympathy"

The premiere of the partially filmed in space film "The Challenge" directed by Klim Shipenko took place at the Russian Embassy in the United States. This is what TASS writes about.

Sales of tours to the Chinese resort island of Hainan began to grow actively after the launch of Aeroflot's direct flight from Moscow to Sanya

Russian films in January 2024 can collect as much as domestic films earned at the box office for the whole of 2016, which was then declared the Year of Cinema in the country.

Performances by Philip Kirkorov and Glucose were cut from the broadcast of the Christmas concert on Channel One. This is reported by the Telegram channel "Caution, news".

Popular singer and TV presenter Regina Todorenko announced her departure from Russia to the UAE on Instagram (a social network banned in the Russian Federation

On the first day of work in 2024 — January 3 — the exhibition-forum "Russia" at VDNH was visited by 156 thousand people. The organizers reported that this was a new record for attendance at the event.

In the Alushta Aquarium, three inhabitants at once give predictions for 2024, the director of the institution Viktor Zhilenko told RIA Novosti.

The number of Russian tourists who visited Turkish Antalya in 2023 amounted to almost 3.5 million people. This is reported on the website of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

More than half of Russians (57%) note the calm mood of relatives, friends, colleagues and acquaintances, and 36% of respondents said that others have an anxious mood, according to the results of the FOM survey.

The Cinema Foundation will support the production of films about Alexander Pushkin, Peter I, the new film adaptation of "Pinocchio" and the prequel of the franchise "The Last Hero", the press service of the Foundation reported.

The Zelenograd District Court of Moscow fined Eksmo publishing house for an article on LGBT propaganda (the international LGBT social movement is recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia).

The State Tretyakov Gallery will present exhibitions in China in 2024 and 2025, preliminary agreements have already been reached

Publishing houses have noted an increase in the number of domestic writers. For example, in 2021, MIF had 20% of Russian authors