"Five stories from Zoschenko to Akunin" was a hit. Full house at the PDC in West Hollywood.

A spontaneous party at Maurice's on Melrose Ave. was ingeniously organized by Lena.

It has been one hell of a week - fun and exciting. Yesterday, the festival finally came to an end.

The openning of the the Russian Nights festival attracted many Hollywood Celebrities. Among them was Mila Jovovich, Oliver Stone, Michael York and Michelle Rodriguez.

Bogdan Stupka was absolutely incredible as the leading man in "Our Own". Bogdan introduced the movie and stuck around afterwards to mingle with the crowd.

Over 350 people came to hear Krematoriy in concert. Kiskachi, Chelyapov & Rasputin opened, followed by the new wonder band from Romania, Acoustic Bullet and then our main act, Krem.

The legendary Georgiy Garanyan, sax was joined by Aleksey Zubov, sax and a band of local musicians to produce a Jazz music event to die for!

City of West Hollywood Russian Advisory Board, Euro-Russian Chamber of Commerce and West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce came together to bring you this meeting with William Furrell, Area Manager, Small Business Development Center at the Pacific Design Center.

Business Development Center at the Pacific Design Center.

Diana's parents went on a cruise in Southeast Asia and let us use their house for Alex's birthday celebration. Everybody came!

Anastasia came to us from New Jersey. She played a wonderful selection of works from a forgotten Russian artist of the 18th century.