Sochi A resting builder on the embankment in Krasnaya Polyana. Construction in Sochi continues to this day - which may be explained by the fact that, for security reasons, all Caucasian and Central Asian guest workers were removed from the city several months ago, for which FMS employees cordoned off entire areas and combed forests. Now it is mainly Russians, as well as Yugoslavs and even Germans, who work in Sochi.

CP 05/02 – Fri 28/02 ## Project Space: “Where we are not” in “Garage” An experimental project to search for new talents and present old exhibitions ### Project Space is a creative platform under the leadership of curator Snezhana Karsteva, where a variety of artists, from famous to completely unknown, will begin working in February.

actor, 89 years old “Solaris”, “Off Season”, “The Escape of Mr. McKinley” - a noble Balt with the sad eyes of a philosopher, Banionis in his main films captured the key image of a worthy person in the Soviet 70s, trying to preserve himself in troubled circumstances. Among other things, he is a living symbol of the Lithuanian acting school. Interview: Zlata Nikolaeva — Russian audiences perceive you, first of all, as a film actor who has played in several cult films.

Low-budget horror about creatures from other dimensions MOVIE A girl reporter investigates the disappearance of her former classmate, who found out about secret government experiments on people. It soon becomes clear that everything is not so simple, and monsters are starting to emerge from a parallel reality. Not very original, but a cheerful debut from director Blair Erickson, vaguely reminiscent of Howard Lovecraft’s novel “From Beyond.” Sat 08/02

MOVIE After the stock market crash of 1987, aspiring broker Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio), armed with an extremely flexible sense of morality and an innate ability to sell garbage to a garbage man, creates his own not-so-scrupulous office and begins a rapid path to success. There is more and more money and drugs, houses and girlfriends are becoming more luxurious, and even close attention from the FBI seems unable to destroy the hero’s psychopathic well-being.

They didn’t walk, they walked, you know, they strolled. And they kissed the lady’s hand, leaning towards her hand, and not pulling it to her lips. Now it looks funny both in cinema and in the theater when, wanting to show, as they say, his good manners, a person behaves like this. A huge difference. And I already understood then that all these “philosophical ships”, executions, camps, genocide of one’s own people could not pass without a trace.

Another way to regulate the Internet CITY At the beginning of February, the law that Vladimir Putin signed on December 30, when the whole country was no longer in the mood for it, comes into force. The law allows you to block without trial sites that disseminate calls for mass riots and participation in unauthorized actions. Moreover, blocking can occur very quickly.

INTERVIEW: SERAFIMA SKEBYUK Thanks to his recently grown hussar mustache, Mitin gave the London press the impression of a typical hipster. However, he himself prefers to classify himself as an intelligentsia — How did it happen that from a Moscow curiosity - a cafe where tea and cookies are free, and they only charge you for your time - you grew into a network with branches in Kyiv and London?

The entire (well, almost) history of Soviet aviation and partly astronautics through the fate of one character. In addition to the People's Commissar's surname and an impressive list of personal acquaintances (Vasily Stalin, Timur Frunze, Yuri Gagarin, etc.), the 91-year-old - he also saw Chkalov - memoirist also has an individual track record: he went through the entire war, tested MiGs, Su and Yaks for several decades, worked on the Buran. An exemplary life - and very dense memories.

who is Trinity Home - an eighteen-year-old Chicago princess with a sassy face, equally good at singing and rapping. what is Not new, but the most old rhythm and blues - Home's songs can easily be inserted into a movie from the mid-nineties like "Space Jam".

MOVIE A young couple goes on their honeymoon to the Dominican Republic, where they end up in a satanic nightclub. Soon the newlyweds learn that in 8 months their first child will be born, the pregnant wife begins to consume raw meat, and few people can be surprised by the information that she is carrying the Antichrist.

Another appeal to the phenomenon of Soviet Lithuanian photography Lithuania occupies a special place in the history of Soviet photography; in the 60s it was called a photographic republic. Greater freedom of choice of subjects compared to the rest of the Union allowed the Lithuanians to develop a wide variety of genres, but all of them, in one way or another, confessed their love for Lithuania.

The members of Clean Bandit only look like simpletons, but in fact they all studied in Cambridge, where the group was formed. Back then, MC Ssegawa, now a Doctor of Natural Sciences, played with them who are the London group, ideologically formed in Moscow: two members studied at VGIK and the Conservatory, respectively, rented an apartment on Leninsky and listened to house music every day from a tent under the window.

restaurants In the Smolensky passage, which since 2008 has been selling furs, fountain pens and the like, the Zodiac restaurant has opened - on the ground floor, to the right of the entrance. Restaurateur Boris Zarkov and chef Vladimir Mukhin, who opened the establishment, insist that it is a bistro, pan-Asian and gastronomic. The definition is complicated, but we have to agree - if someone decides to drop into Zodiac with 300 rubles in their pocket, they will be upset.

artist, 80 years old The main star of Moscow conceptualism - and Russian art of the second half of the twentieth century in general. The man who invented total installations. Tireless researcher of communal consciousness and critic of the Soviet system. The most successful contemporary Russian artist in the West - where Kabakov has lived for the last 25 years. Interview: Maria Semendyaeva —Have you dreamed of being an artist?