Culture and leisure

On the first day of work in 2024 — January 3 — the exhibition-forum "Russia" at VDNH was visited by 156 thousand people. The organizers reported that this was a new record for attendance at the event.

In the Alushta Aquarium, three inhabitants at once give predictions for 2024, the director of the institution Viktor Zhilenko told RIA Novosti.

The number of Russian tourists who visited Turkish Antalya in 2023 amounted to almost 3.5 million people. This is reported on the website of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

More than half of Russians (57%) note the calm mood of relatives, friends, colleagues and acquaintances, and 36% of respondents said that others have an anxious mood, according to the results of the FOM survey.

The Cinema Foundation will support the production of films about Alexander Pushkin, Peter I, the new film adaptation of "Pinocchio" and the prequel of the franchise "The Last Hero", the press service of the Foundation reported.

The Zelenograd District Court of Moscow fined Eksmo publishing house for an article on LGBT propaganda (the international LGBT social movement is recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia).

The State Tretyakov Gallery will present exhibitions in China in 2024 and 2025, preliminary agreements have already been reached

Publishing houses have noted an increase in the number of domestic writers. For example, in 2021, MIF had 20% of Russian authors

People's Artist of Russia Nikolai Baskov has closed his film studio "Royal Mountain", which he founded with actress Alexandra Yakovleva. This is reported by the Telegram channel Mash.

In Moscow, two Chinese citizens wanted to take pictures of a panorama near the Polytechnic Museum on a Mavic 3 Pro quadcopter and ended up in the police. This was reported by the Baza publication in the Telegram channel.

The ski resorts Krasnaya Polyana, Arkhyz and Lagonaki intend to build 550 kilometers of trails and in the future they are preparing to receive at least five million tourists a year, Vadim Trukshin

The State Duma Commission to investigate the facts of foreign interference in the internal affairs of Russia has asked the Ministry of Justice to conduct an audit against the writer Boris Akunin

The Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language has chosen "neural network" as the word of 2023, according to experts, it captures the most relevant trends of the outgoing year

Uzbekistan supports Russia's initiative to hold the Intervision song contest for the CIS countries, Uzbek Prime Minister Abdullah Aripov said on Monday.