Culture and leisure

Tour operators record the growing demand of Russians for cruises to the Arctic, in 2023 the tourist flow to the region exceeded one million people, according to the Russian Union of Travel Industry.

The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Olga Lyubimova reported a significant increase in the attendance of Russian museums: an increase of two times in 20 years.

The second congress of the "Movement of the First" will begin its work on Tuesday at the exhibition "Russia" at VDNH in Moscow, the organizers said.

The head of the Ministry of Finance, Maksut Shadaev, spoke about the possibility of resuming the work of the TikTok social network in Russia. His words are reported by RIA Novosti.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the most popular country among Russian tourists in January 2024. Such data was called by experts of the MTS Travel hotel booking service.

The American media company Skydance is considering the possibility of buying out all shares of a larger competitor Paramount Global with a view to their subsequent delisting.

A concert of the DDT music group will be held in Uzbekistan for the first time. This is reported by the online ticket sales service ticket.uz .

The Ministry of Culture will send Russian restoration specialists to Abkhazia to assist in the restoration of paintings and documents that survived the fire at the National Art Gallery, head of the department Olga Lyubimova said.

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