Culture

• 28 February, 09:00 Mask, do we know you? The world premiere of The Three Masks of the King ballet in Samara
• 22 February, 09:00 Critic Aleksander Laskowski: ''The designer starts to play the key role in opera''
• 14 February, 09:00 Fyodor Shalyapin in Kazan: the 20 kopeks that decided the fate The great singer’s birthday was yesterday

• 25 February, 09:00 ''Contemporary Russian literature seems to me narcissistic and simply uninteresting'' Editor-in-chief of Phantom Press publishing house about the publishing market, ''great Russian literature'' and contemporary censorship
• 21 February, 09:00 In search of Dulcinea and eternity The Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra, Aleksandr Sladkovsky and Mario Brunello have presented a very complicated concert programme
• 14 February, 09:00 Tiger of contention: famous circus performers want to take 'evidence' seized from a drug dealer with them, animal rights activists against Now Luna tiger is being nursed in the zoo of Naberezhnye Chelny, it is fed with fresh goat's milk and being pampered

• 13 February, 09:00 Aleksandr Sladkovsky makes ''the universe sound in tone'' The Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra has played Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 for the first time
• 08 February, 09:00 From Filaret to Vsevolod: museum to open in Raifa monastery The first visitors will look it over in early summer already
• 05 February, 09:00 Shocking panel session: how Medinsky captivates with grants, while Ayupova has a creative hairdo and goal setting The Tatarstan Ministry of Culture has chosen a new route

• 12 February, 09:00 Cuba is Close: pieces of art from Island of Freedom first exhibited in Izhevsk Artist Omar Godinez’s exhibition has opened in the Udmurt Republican Museum of Fine Arts
• 07 February, 09:00 The Tsar’s Bride visits Kazan The 37th International Shalyapin Festival has opened
• 29 January, 09:00 From classics to contemporaries: music of all generations in three programmes of Miras festival