The Innovation Prizes for art have been awarded. Hors concours prizes were given to the late Alexander Sidorov, who died last year, and Igor Shelkovsky for creation of the emigre journal A-Ya. The visual arts' prize went to Vladislav Efimov. The curator's prize went to Anna Zaitseva. The regional prize was awarded to Dmitri Bulatov and Oleg Blyablyas. Andrei Kuzkin, who recently had a fine show at ArtStrelka projects, received the new generation prize. The art critics' prize was not awarded to any of the high-profile nominees (Degot, Misiano, Barabanov), it is claimed for reasons of "political correctness" [it's not clear to me at time of writing what this means] (Regnum, in Russian). Russian blogger kotomish was there and he was underwhelmed by the event (kotomish, in Russian):

The organisers were also singing the praises of the Minister of Culture, who was present. It turns out they were singing in expectation of a new 17-storey building for the National Centre of Contemporary Art, including several floors devoted to a state museum of contemporary art.

Of course after the recent Kandinsky Prize excitement anything would be an anti-climax.