More than 10,000 Zenit St Petersburg fans are expected in Manchester for the big match with Glasgow Rangers. Zenit are just one step away from winning the UEFA Cup and becoming only the second Russian football club to clinch the prestigious silverware.

Festival of Russian children’s books involving famous children’s writer Sergei Mikhalkov and artist, producer and script writer of animation cartoons Sergei Alimov will be held in the Swedish capital on May 14 and 15.

British Ministers have agreed that, from now, Zenit fans wishing to attend the UEFA Cup Final in Manchester next week will receive their visas free of charge.

The first run of the feature film in Moscow Valery Kharlamov. Extra Time has proved quite a success.

 

Aleksandr Ovechkin and his Washington Capitals hockey side have had their Stanley Cup dreams ended for the season after they lost in overtime in their deciding play-off match against Philadelphia.

Preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are extremely challenging, but Russia will succeed. That is according to inspectors from the International Olympic Committee. IOC members are currently on their first assessment visit to the Russian Black Sea resort since it was awarded the games last year.

A licence confirming the marriage of Beyonce and Jay-Z has been filed with the authorities in New York, an official has said.

Movie icon Clint Eastwood will premiere his latest directorial outing, called Changeling, at the Cannes International Film Festival next month.

Two days of Russian art auctions in Sotheby’s auction house in New York fetched more than 46 million dollars.

The winners of the MTV Russia movie prize will be announced in Moscow this evening.