Photo by Dmitry Medvedev.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's photograph of the Tobolsk Kremlin (the fortress in a Siberian town of Tobolsk) sold for 51 million rubles ($1.7 million) at a charity auction in St. Petersburg.

Medvedev's photo was snapped up by Mikhail Zingarevich, a board member at Ilim Group, the pulp and paper company where Medvedev was a co-owner at 1990s. Zingarevich said he planned to hang the picture in his office.

Proceeds of the auction will go to buy furniture for World War II veterans receiving long-promised apartments, equipment for a children's hospital and a new kitchen for an alcohol rehabilitation center.

Photo: Alexander Kotomin.

Moscow hosts International festival of snow, ice and light sculpture "Vyugovey 2010".

Photo by Marco Fieber.

The Interra Youth Forum opening. The Opera Theatre, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Photos by Maya Shelkovnikova.

Contemporary Art Exhibition "Look!" opened today in Novosibirsk.

The opening was very exciting: pornographic pictures on the walls were in abundance, the musicians were wonderful, a cultural critic Sergey Samoilenko talked to vice-governor Andrei Filichev, as a modern artist Slava Mizin of the "Blue Noses" group launched fireworks from his own pants.

And this, my friends, is the primary sensation of the evening: Gary Oldman came to the opening of the exhibition in Novosibirsk!

Mr Oldman friendly talked to local residents and even made a commentary for TV. By the way, Robin Williams came to Novosibirsk to watch the total solar eclipse last year.

Photos by Lugerovski.

The replica of the Statue of Liberty was built from scrap metal in Russian city of Yelabuga. Oh, those Russian sculptors.

Peeing Panda Fountain. Photos by Dmitry Kobsev.

Architectural Festival "Green City" was held in the Altay Mountains (Russia) in early August. Participants built architectural objects from materials that can be found at the scene. According to organizers, this is one of the principles of eco-architecture. The aim of the festival was to create a model architecture that is able to blend with the environment.

Our colleague Dmitry Kobsev, who visited architectural festival, said metkere.com, that he was impressed by impractical objects, like The Temple of Wind or The City of Flowers. "This is a bare idea, a sort of concept, not a claim for housing", - said Dmitry Kobsev.

Related article: "We are the Champions" in Altay Language.

Tatiana Savitskaya (right) won the competition. Photos by Yaroslav Debely / Korrespondent.net.

Miss Wet T-Shirt contest took place in Kiev on July 25. Tatiana Savitskaya (17), a student of the Kiev Institute of International Relations, won the competition. She got a trip to Turkey and the opportunity to get on the cover of one of the men's magazines.

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