Photo: PublicPost Collage/Night at the Museum On the evening of May 18, in many Russian cities it was possible to enter a variety of museums for free - from large eminent ones like the Tretyakov Gallery to small but popular galleries, such as the gallery on Solyanka. The Night of Museums has been held in Moscow for the 7th time. And not only in Moscow, but also in Krasnodar, Voronezh, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Sochi, Nizhny Novgorod and other cities of the country.

Chairman of the United Russia party, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, proposed holding the next party congress in November 2013 and expressed the hope that party members would be able to congratulate each other on their victory in the elections, which will be held on the Unified Voting Day on September 8. Interfax reports this.

Photo: RIA Novosti 54-year-old director Alexei Balabanov died near St. Petersburg. Producer Sergei Selyanov reported this to the Russian News Service on May 18. According to him, the director had a seizure. Daniil Dondurei, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Art of Cinema": “I think that Alexey Balabanov is an outstanding Russian film director.

One day in Paris, I accidentally came across Culture-Aventure , a travel documentary film festival. I really liked this idea right away. Literally a year later, my friends from England organized the same film festival in Germany. There has never been anything like this in Moscow before, and I decided to fix it. People who were also interested in this began to gather around my initiative to organize a film festival myself (we called it Travel school festival).

Photo: Reuters A man who was among the audience during a live evening broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival on the French television channel Canal+ started shooting on the Promenade de la Croisette, reports the French publication Le Figaro . This man managed to fire two shots, after which the security of the television site, together with the police, quickly neutralized him. When the unknown man was detained, it turned out that his pistol was loaded with blank cartridges.