17:29 Year of China in Russia entering active phase
March will be one of the busiest months of the Year of China in Russia in 2007, highly-placed officials with the Chinese State Council's Press Office and Culture Ministry told Russian journalists in Beijing.

17:16 Iran museum to sign contract with Russia’s Hermitage
The National Museum of Iran (NMI) and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg will sign an agreement in a few weeks, Iranian cultural attaché in Russia announced on Monday.

15:29 Russia displays looted German treasure
The exhibition has got the support of Germany's government, and is the first such act of Russian-German collaboration in the post-war era.