21:46 Russian Designer Gets a Win in Gainsborough Battle with Hermitage
Russia,s new Intellectual Property Court has called for fresh hearings for a St. Petersburg fashion designer prohibited, at the behest of the renown Hermitage Museum, from using one of Thomas Gainsborough’s best-known paintings in her work

21:35 Russian Director to Make Movie About ‘Russian Facebook’ Founder
A Russian film director said Friday that he planned to work on a film about the founder of VKontakte, an immensely popular social-networking website that has often been dubbed “Russia’s Facebook.”