6 main cultural news of the day: Dmitry Medvedev begins reform of the Academy of Sciences, the Hermitage will launch television, a walking orchestra festival will be held in Moscow, Nikita Mikhalkov entrusted an ethical charter to young people and others.

1 The Hermitage will open six branches and television

On June 26, the director of the State Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, presented in Moscow a concept for the development of the museum until 2022, called the “Great Hermitage”. It provides for the opening of six new Hermitage centers in Russia and abroad - in the Primorsky Territory, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, as well as in Vilnius and Barcelona.

The concept involves turning Palace Square into an active museum space. For this purpose, restoration of the eastern wing of the General Staff building is being carried out and new exhibition halls are being created in the Small Hermitage. In addition, it is planned to create a Museum of the Guard in the building of the headquarters of the Guards Corps on Palace Square. “The final ring of the concept is the Internet space with the Hermitage website, digital libraries, “virtual Hermitages”, Hermitage on-line television, blogs and all the latest forms of telecommunications. They will complement the already existing museum information and cultural space - the orchestra, radio, newspaper and Hermitage magazine,” said Piotrovsky.

2 Muzeon hosts the Walking Band Festival

On July 14, the Moscow art park "Museon" turns 21. On this day, the first walking orchestra festival in Russia will take place there, in which famous brass musicians from different countries will take part. The main guests at Muzeon's birthday party will be the French brass bands Les Chevals - the only ensemble in the world that plays not only brass instruments, but also seashells - and CQMD - the pioneers of modern marching funk orchestras in Europe. Representatives of the brass movement of Moscow and St. Petersburg will also take part in the festival: Pakava It, Mocbrass, ½ Orchestra, Bubamara Brass Band, Brevis Brass and the group “Opa!” The organizers also promise a carnival procession, jugglers and acrobats, and children's master classes on learning to play wind instruments.

3 "B1" will return under a new name

The club, previously known as B1 Maximum, will open this fall under the name GLAVCLUB Moscow. Entrepreneur and promoter Igor Tonkikh announced this on his Facebook page. “The flagship of Moscow’s concert life in the 2000s and the management of the Glavklub this week signed a long-term agreement, as a result of which, without a doubt, the best concerts will return to the walls of the unique concert venue,” Tonkikh wrote.

One of the largest Moscow clubs, “B1 Maximum” - it could accommodate about three thousand people - was opened in one of the buildings of the Ordzhonikidze plant in December 2006.

The club closed in September 2010 after the State Fire Supervision Service identified safety violations.

4 Medvedev begins reform of the Academy of Sciences

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced the start of reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He believes that the Russian Academy of Sciences needs to be rid of the “unusual function of managing property and public utilities.” According to Medvedev, spoken on June 27 at a government meeting, the management system of state academies of sciences in the Russian Federation does not meet modern requirements. The prime minister recalled that there are currently six state academies in the country, including the Russian Academy of Sciences, and although “they are engaged in important research in various scientific fields and, of course, make a huge contribution to the development of domestic science,” the management system of state academies “has long been in need of updating.”

5 Details of the Moscow Biennale have been revealed

About 80 artists from 25 countries will take part in the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in the fall of 2013. Her main project will be called “More Light”. The theme was determined by the curator of the main project of the biennale, Catherine de Zegher. The 5th Moscow Biennale will be held from September 20 to October 20, 2013. The exposition of the main project will present about 80 artists from Europe, Russia, America, Australia, Indonesia, the Bahamas, Pakistan, Kenya, Cambodia, and Uzbekistan in the Manege exhibition hall.

6 Young people will write an ethical charter for cinema

On June 27, the chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, Nikita Mikhalkov, called on the youth section of the UK to write an ethical charter for workers in the Russian film industry. The order to develop a charter was given by Russian President Vladimir Putin following a meeting with film figures held in mid-June. Earlier, Mikhalkov spoke about the creation of a special commission in the UK under the leadership of the first deputy chairman of the Union, Sergei Lazaruk, which will deal with the ethical charter. However, now the chairman of the Investigative Committee has decided to entrust this task to the youth section