Culture and leisure

French actor and director Pierre Richard hopes to bring a new play to Russia, in which he plays the role together with Matilda May.

For animals living in zoos, the norms of minimum and maximum living space are defined. They are provided by the new GOST, which will come into force next year.

Favorable weather conditions for the swimming season in Moscow are not expected, said Deputy Situation Center Hydrometeorology Center, Anatoly Tsygankov.

Petersburg houses will protect against "tourism on the roofs" with the help of security video surveillance systems and mortise locks, said the Acting Governor of the city Alexander Beglov.

The world-famous Canadian director Robert Lepage told RIA Novosti that he had begun work on the play Master and Margarita based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov