Culture and leisure

Most of the visitors were from China, Germany, Israel, France, Italy, Spain and India

The festival of contemporary Russian cinema "New Russian Film" will be held in the Czech Republic in September and October of this year. In total, the festival will host five cities, reports TASS with reference to the press secretary of the Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic Nikolay Bryakin.

Quentin Tarantino called Timur Bekmambetov his favorite contemporary Russian director. About this he told the publication RIA Novosti.

Involved in the murder of a popular in the 90-ies of the singer in the style of chanson, a former assassin gang "the Tver wolves" Alexander Ageev has pleaded guilty

In China found fossils of the biggest forests in the Devonian period and the most ancient forests in Asia, reported in Current Biology.

A four-meter copy of the Irkutsk monument to Marshal Zhukov was installed in the Mongol regional center of Khalkhin-Gol, according to the website of the government of the Irkutsk region on Thursday.

The State Russian Museum opens an exhibition of Konstantin Somov, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the artist.  The exposition will be open in Mikhailovsky Castle from August 8 to November 4.

Acting Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov signed a government decree on the provision of subsidies for the organization of the St. Petersburg International Maritime Festival.