The “swamp business”, as it is accepted now, has split society in half. After the first arrests, there was talk about what they took - the provocateurs who came to our rally with their pieces of asphalt in the rear pockets and let them sit where they are sitting.

On the eve of the premiere of the film “The Last Tale of Rita” and two performances, with the Queen group and at the “Invasion” festival, Zemfira unexpectedly answered my e-mail with a request for a meeting. The interview seemed to be about to break: on social networks there was a first person’s text, informing her intention to shut up for a while. But Zemfira sent another letter, emphasizing that she always holds the word, and restrained this time.

The most loud group of Belarus, the authors of the “Capital”, “Manifesto” and “Cultosvet”, recently presented the students with a new album of the Rabkor’s propaganda-panka, and the tracks from which only in the first three days of the air on Yandex. Music ”listened more than one million times. On colta.ru, the group of Sergei Mikhalka represents the premiere of the clip for the most shock song from this plate - “Iron”.

In the recently reprinted book of the memoirs of composer Nikolai Karenikov there is a funny episode. There are a lot of such, I remember by heart from my sixteen years-since 1988, when these little stories were first printed by the magazine "The Spark", as we knew it : journalistic investigations alternated there with poetry, and this did not embarrass and even inspired. I recall this story more often than others, but it is used, as it were, inappropriate, not in a entirely provided for.

On July 12, the Russian Booker Prize presented the next long list . The prize recently gained a new sponsor represented by Globex Bank and increased in connection with this the size of the prize fund more than doubled. The laureate now receives one and a half million rubles, and finalists - 150,000 each. The composition of the jury of this year is as follows. The chairman is a St. Petersburg critic and essayist Samuel Lurie.