12:31 Writer Leonid Yuzefovich becomes laureate of "National Bestseller 2000"
The writer received this award for his novel "Prince of the Wind".

10:51 "The invisible city of Saint-Petersburg"
The exhibit with such a name has opened on the roof of Peter and Paul Fortress' bastions.

10:45 "Black Light" exhibit by Pierre Soulage opens in State Hermitage Museum's Nikolayevsky Hall.
Pierre Soulage is one of today's most important abstract painters in France. He demonstrates his works in Russia for the first time.