Love the arts and live in Moscow? All your Christmases have come at once. Tonight through Saturday, the fourth annual Night of the Arts festival will be celebrated in the capital, with more than 200 cultural institutions keeping their doors open until midnight and delighting visitors with a special program of more than 400 free events.

Andras Fekete Borovitsky Hill in Moscow—also known as Kremlin Hill —is arguably the best-known and most impressive site in the city. On one side stands the magnificent Pashkov House, Moscow’s leading classical mansion of the late 18th century. On the other side are the Kremlin wall, the Grand Stone Bridge, and the esplanade with its view of the famous House on the Embankment, built especially for the first Soviet ruling elite in the late 1920s.

Pottery Workshop Get your hands dirty Looking for a new hobby and feeling inspired by that Unchained Melody scene from “Ghost”? We’ve got it covered. Moscow’s Mosgonchar pottery studio offers classes to aspiring potters of all levels — from first timers to experienced types looking to tighten up their technique. Creatives from the age of two and up can try their hand at the potter’s wheel through individual classes — lasting from 60-90 minutes — or opt for a group session with a gang of friends.

Russia's Supreme Court has issued a statement to clarify the topic of Internet extremism, the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI) reported Thursday. Judges have been instructed to examine all circumstances of such cases in greater detail, particularly in cases that involve the sharing of allegedly extremist material on social media.

Oleg Popov Dijk, Hans van / Anefo Oleg Popov, one of Russia’s most beloved clowns, died at the age of 87 last night in Rostov-on-Don, Russian media reported on Thursday. Popov was on tour at the time of his death. Popov, dubbed the “Sunshine Clown” by a French journalist, began his career in the post-war years, first in Saratov and then in Moscow. After a stint with the Youth Circus under the celebrated clown Pencil (Karandash), Popov primarily performed at the New Circus.

Pussy Riot / YouTube Something unprecedented happened on Spotify this week: a song by a Russian artist topped the music service’s “ Viral 50 ” charts globally and in the United States.

Russia's State Duma has passed a new law which makes inducement to doping a criminal offense. The legislation was introduced by deputies Dmitry Svishchev from the LDPR party and Marat Bariev and Ildar Gilmutdinov from United Russia. The bill was passed in its third reading on Thursday after a number of amendments.

Sergei Kossiyev / VK Sergei Kossiyev, the head of Penal Colony No. 7 in Russia's northern Karelia region, has been temporarily suspended due to his possible involvement in the beating of inmate and civil activist Ildar Dadin. Alexander Serov, Kossiyev's deputy, has taken his post as head of the facility while an investigation into the incident is being conducted.

Vladislav Surkov Alexei Druzhinin / TASS Ukrainian hackers leaked another cache of emails from former presidential aide Vladislav Surkov on Thursday, according to media reports. Like the first leak from last week, the new cache of messages from November 2014 to September 2016 contains revelations about the Kremlin's ties to armed separatists in Ukraine's Donbass region.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Russia’s prison system is a direct holdover of the Soviet Gulag. It is not unusual for detainees to be humiliated, beaten, and tortured at police stations, prisons, and prison settlements. It is less usual for reports of maltreatment to appear. When they do, they generally come from the victims themselves — such as when activist Ildar Dadin dictated a letter detailing his ordeal to his lawyer .

Gérard Depardieu and Vladimir Putin in January 2013. Kremlin Press Service Gerard Depardieu wants you to know that he’s not yet claiming his Russian pension. This Thursday, Depardieu’s representative, Arno Frill, told the tabloid “Life” that the French actor has been paying Russian taxes for three years without receiving any Russian pension payments (to which he is entitled as a 67-year-old Russian citizen).

"Will Trump be assassinated?", state TV host Dmitry Kiselyov asks a week before the Russian Duma elections. Vesti Nedeli / YouTube From the word “go,” Russian state media have been largely sympathetic toward Donald Trump. Even prior to the Republican primaries, they reported every minor bump and hiccup in his ratings. In September, Trump’s against-the-odds campaign garnered more attention than Russia’s own parliamentary elections.

Peter Kovalev / TASS The removable field at the new Zenit football stadium, currently under construction in St. Petersburg, does not meet FIFA's field requirements for shock absorption. A source who witnessed FIFA's inspection of the field on Oct. 31 told the Regnum news agency that after jumping on the field, the FIFA inspector said that no championship match could be played on it. According to the inspector, the field failed the requirement by a factor of seven.

Russian PresidentVladimir Putin has awarded aging American action movie star StevenSeagal with Russian citizenship, according to a decree publishedThursday on the Kremlin's website. Seagal follows otherWestern celebrities with an affinity for Putin's machismo inreceiving Russian citizenship, such as fighter Roy Jones Jr. andFrench actor Gerard Depardieu. Seagal has aspiredto Russian citizenship for several years now.