Culture and leisure

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the most popular country among Russian tourists in January 2024. Such data was called by experts of the MTS Travel hotel booking service.

The American media company Skydance is considering the possibility of buying out all shares of a larger competitor Paramount Global with a view to their subsequent delisting.

A concert of the DDT music group will be held in Uzbekistan for the first time. This is reported by the online ticket sales service ticket.uz .

The Ministry of Culture will send Russian restoration specialists to Abkhazia to assist in the restoration of paintings and documents that survived the fire at the National Art Gallery, head of the department Olga Lyubimova said.

In 2022, more than 419 thousand new cases of obesity were registered in Russia, RBC reports, citing data published in the Rosstat collection "Healthcare in Russia-2023".

The winner of the most prestigious Japanese literary award Akutagawa for the current year, 33-year-old Rie Kudan admitted that about 5% of the sentences in her winning novel "Tokyo Tower of Sympathy"

The premiere of the partially filmed in space film "The Challenge" directed by Klim Shipenko took place at the Russian Embassy in the United States. This is what TASS writes about.

Sales of tours to the Chinese resort island of Hainan began to grow actively after the launch of Aeroflot's direct flight from Moscow to Sanya

Russian films in January 2024 can collect as much as domestic films earned at the box office for the whole of 2016, which was then declared the Year of Cinema in the country.

Performances by Philip Kirkorov and Glucose were cut from the broadcast of the Christmas concert on Channel One. This is reported by the Telegram channel "Caution, news".

Popular singer and TV presenter Regina Todorenko announced her departure from Russia to the UAE on Instagram (a social network banned in the Russian Federation

On the first day of work in 2024 — January 3 — the exhibition-forum "Russia" at VDNH was visited by 156 thousand people. The organizers reported that this was a new record for attendance at the event.

In the Alushta Aquarium, three inhabitants at once give predictions for 2024, the director of the institution Viktor Zhilenko told RIA Novosti.

The number of Russian tourists who visited Turkish Antalya in 2023 amounted to almost 3.5 million people. This is reported on the website of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

More than half of Russians (57%) note the calm mood of relatives, friends, colleagues and acquaintances, and 36% of respondents said that others have an anxious mood, according to the results of the FOM survey.