Russian films apply for Euro-Oskar © EFA “Long Happy Life” by Boris Khlebnikov and “treason” by Kirill Serebrennikov entered the long-list of nominees for the Award of the European Film Academy (EFA), the European analogue of Oscars. Khlebnikova’s painting participated in the competition of the Berlin Film Festival in February this year, the film of Serebrennikov was a member of the main competition of last year's Venice Film Festival, RIA Novosti recalls.

Andrei Zhagars can leave the post of director of the Latvian National Opera © Latvijas Nacionālā Opera The Minister of Culture of Latvia Janan Yaunzem-Grand believes that the director of the Latvian National Opera Andrei Zhagars cannot stay in this post. “He is not in Latvia for a long time and cannot lead the opera.

In Moscow, scientists reached a rally against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences © TVas About 1200 representatives of Russian science took part today, September 10, in a rally on Suvorovskaya Square in the center of Moscow. They protested against the bill on the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to Interfax in the organizing committee of the rally, the action was agreed and passed calmly.

Moscow officials believe that Sunday elections should be recognized as honest, since they did without egregious violations, and the ballots were calculated as it should. There is another point of view: it is difficult to recognize the elections in which one of the candidates has an unlimited media resource paid by taxpayers and is completely deprived of the need to report for financing his campaign. There are also conciliatory positions.

In Moscow, in the center of the photograph. Brothers Lumier, the exhibition " Riddle Vivian Mayer " opened . The artist and activist of the Moscow feminist group Michael talks about Vivian Mayer. During the lifetime, Vivian Mayer as a photographer was not known to anyone. Often people with whom she worked as a nanny - and she worked for about 40 years - they didn’t even know that she was taking pictures of a lot, or thought about the camera in her hands as a hobby.

Cut Copy will perform in the Moscow club © Pop Farm On December 6, the Australian Electronic Electronic Electronic Electronics will give a concert in Moscow in the club P! PL in Moscow. The founder and permanent leader of Cut Copy is designer and DJ Dan Whitford. In 2004, the debut album of the Bright Like Neon Love group was released, which received high marks in authoritative musical publications. In 2005, in support of the album, the musicians went on the first world tour.

In the late evening of September 8, interested parties gathered at the Moscow Club of Workshop to discuss the results of the day. The conversation was led by Vera Shengelia. Vera Schengelia: Everyone treated these elections differently. Someone said that this was a referendum, someone said that it was just a hundredth, someone said that it was real elections. Let's start with this. I will ask you to tell you that these elections are for you.

Russian authorities are fighting gay propaganda in Italy © Visiva The Russian Embassy in Italy refused to support the Roman exhibition of St.

The booker announced a short list © colta.ru The “short list” of the Buker Prize has been announced. It contains six books, one of which on October 15 will be called the best novel of the year in English. The jury of the Boker chose finalists from 13 books included in the “Long List”. In total, 151 works created by writers of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland and Zimbabwe and published from October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013 participated in the competition this season.

In the 80s, the Dutch group The EX supported the striking British miners and issued records dedicated to topics like the Spanish revolution of 1936 or, for example, the closure of a paper factory, which provided work with the population of a small town in which the musicians lived then. In the 90s, The EX criticized capitalism, sexism and consumerism and shared a scene with groups like Fugazi and Dog Faced Hermans, as well as with the heroes of European and American improvisational music.

Russian Prize opens the season © Presidential Center B.N. Seltsin Today, September 10, the acceptance of work at the Russian Russian Prize International Literary Competition for 2013 has begun. It involves works created by Russian -speaking authors living outside Russia. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the organizers of the award, the acceptance of applications ends on November 30.

The program "Ampaest" is announced © CoolConnections On September 18–29, in Moscow and 18–25 in St. Petersburg, the amphesta festival will be held, representing the best works of US filmmakers over the past year.

The literary and life biography of Arseny Rovinsky is not banal even for representatives of his generation. Having left in 1991 in Denmark (at the age of 22), he only at the end of the decade published the first poems included in the book “Collective Images” (1999), to whose discretion Maria Mayofis complained 10 years ago.