Everything goes according to plan

After a recent incident with the liquidation of the RIA Novosti agency and further discussion of this plot in social networks, quoting a title song from the popular television series Valery Todorovsky became an evil tone, but getting off from the line “I thought it was spring, / and this thaw” is not so easy: as it may I have, and Konstantin Meladze managed to accommodate the whole into this tapshit formula. The universal paradigm of Russian life. Oak is a tree, a rose - a flower, the conditional RIA Novosti is replaced by the conventional “Russia Today”, and the fleeting thaw is inevitably replaced by an era of protracted stagnation. His dangerous proximity forced everyone who reposted the news on his Facebook yesterday about the resignation of the deputy head of the capital's Department of Culture Evgenia Shermeneva. It is thanks to its activities that the last two years will definitely enter the annals of domestic culture by the time of the genuine theater Renaissance - in the history of which Shermeneva’s departure puts, if not a point, then at least a multi -year.

However, commenting on the situation, Sergey Kapkov has already said that the candidacy of his new deputy for theaters was proposed by Shersmeneva herself - sending a signal that, they say, the theatrical reform will continue and, therefore, there are no real reasons for concern. But it cannot be said that after this statement the mood in the community improved significantly - and the point here is not even that Shermeneva hurried to refute the information about the successor of Shermen. In fact, in the news about personnel changes in the Department of Culture, there was absolutely nothing discouraging, unequivocal-how specifically the future of the reform of Moscow theaters will take shape is unknown, but that it will be rolled up sooner or later, and its intermediate results will be revised, alas, there is no doubt.

Sergei Kapkov already had to face serious reputation losses that the Gogol Theater’s the Gogol Theater has turned out for him, probably this experience was probably forced the head of the department to abandon the active public participation in the activities of the Taganskaya “anniversary year group” : direct involvement in another resonant theater scandal is quite quite I could cost a capkovy position. The process of global restructuring of the familiar theater system, initiated by the Department of Culture, from the very beginning looked like an attempt to fenger, comprehend, civilize the activities of one of the most archaic and patriarchal sectors of the domestic cultural industry. But the theater is a model of society, a state in miniature, its problems are not local, but systematic, and solve them with spectacular efficiency, repeating the success of a garden and park blitzkrieg, would not have happened even with all the desire. No matter how sad it is to be aware, but with the order of things that has existed in the country, the theatrical reform has begun in Moscow in any case is doomed to the same fate as any transformations of the liberal pity in modern Russia.