A unnamed Russian man has paid about $US 5.5 million for a diamond set badge of the order of Saint Andrew at Sotheby's in London

More than 50 well-known jazz bands from different countries will perform at an open-air jazz festival that kicked off at the Arkhangelskoye estate and museum near Moscow today.

The Russian UN Ambassador Vitali Churkin and the former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger joined a celebrity-packed audience at a concert of Russian and American musicians in New York on Tuesday.

The 1st “Imperial Gardens of Russia” festival kicks off in the Mikhailovsky garden of Saint Petersburg today.

Some of Japan’s most treasured showpieces are being exhibited in Moscow’s Kremlin. Many of the 73 Samurai masterpieces have never before left Japan.

For the first time in the history of the Cannes Festival, three Russian movies are vying for the Golden Camera award for the best first feature film - Sergey Dvortsevoy’s ‘Tulip’, Bakura Bakuradze’s ‘Shultes’ and Valeria Guy Germanika’s ‘Everybody Dies But Me’.

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.

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

 

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

Norway's King Harald V has opened the country's national opera house in Oslo at a gala performance attended by royalty and other national leaders.