A.K.M. I would like to congratulate all good people on the upcoming New Year - everyone: both my viewers and those who have never seen me either on stage or in the films of my beloved Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov. I especially want to congratulate the apparently aged boys and girls who saw me in the Youth Theater in the role of the pig Nuf-Nuf and the donkey Eeyore.

Alla POKROVSKAYA, People's Artist of Russia I bow to the troupe of this theater, admire it and am very grateful to it. The actors well and deeply understand the plans and tasks that their chief director Kirill Serebrennikov sets for them. And they certainly contribute something else of their own, very important. They show us our pains - mental, social, political. And they do it in the most modern way. Smart, demanding, purposeful, uncompromising.

Liya AKHEDZHAKOVA, People's Artist of Russia This is a rare case when theater - despite the circumstances! - is still successful, as before, until certain circumstances, it is impossible to get into it, there are no free places. In the hall there are intellectuals, young people, I meet friends: actors, directors, journalists. This is an opportunity to communicate with people I miss, the huge city has scattered us, and we really need each other’s support.

16 untimely theses - about people in charge of the times, about people in charge of the times, and about people who expressed the spirit of the era, as well as about what we are wounded and killed before coming to work, and about the healing power of creativity and compassion Liya AKHEDZHAKOVA, People's Artist of Russia: 1. It is impossible to breathe in this stuffy atmosphere of general aggression and neurasthenia. Some kind of terrible hysteria is going on. And from all sides, by the way.

The organizer of the Kubana festival, recently canceled in the Kaliningrad region, talks about the new reality, prohibitions and patriotism The organizer of the Kubana festival, recently canceled in the Kaliningrad region, talks about the new reality, prohibitions and patriotism The Council of Deputies of the Yantarny urban district in the Kaliningrad region, where the Kubana rock festival was supposed to take place, canceled it, and the head of the administration signed the decision of the

The Russian government has extended permission to destroy Lake Baikal Today there is a thin guy with glasses standing in the building of the Irkutsk administration with a poster “Fools don’t need Baikal”. This single picket is the crown of many years of struggle with the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill and the quintessence of disappointment, loss of hope, the bottom line of fruitless attempts to convince the authorities that there is something else in this world besides money.

Today I received a call from the Khodorkovsky Foundation. They said: Liya Medzhidovna, we have it recorded that in 2010 (I think in 2010) Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha was the first to sign a letter from the intelligentsia in defense of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev... I didn’t remember exactly - but it was probably so. Because in the mid-1960s, in very difficult, desperate years, Igor was the first in our theater to sign a letter in defense of Sinyavsky and Daniel.

Whose goal is being played? This thought is by no means idle, especially in light of the events that beset us on New Year’s Eve and in which the name of the author of the novel “Near Zero” is a serious component. But at some point I was so hooked, I believed the actors so much, the performance captured me, excited me... In a word, the theater won: a multidimensional, piercing message, a completely new hero, Serebrennikov’s most interesting directorial decision.

PREMIERE OF THE RUBRIC: “Cooperation with the authorities. For what. On what grounds? Is it worth doing this at all? ? Ekaterina BERMANT, Children's Hearts Foundation: “Power is the kind of partner from whom you always expect nasty things” For eight years, Katya Bermant’s very small Children’s Hearts Foundation (there are only two people in the foundation) has raised money for operations for thousands of children with heart defects.