"United Russia" changed my mind to cancel the benefits for showing foreign cinema © Oleg Nikishin The bill of the State Duma of the State Duma from "United Russia" by Sergei Zheleznyak on the abolition of a preferential zero VAT on showing foreign films from the State Duma by the authors themselves. According to Kommersant , on September 4, the Zheleznyak withdrew his surname under the bill, and over the next three weeks, the remaining eight coinialists did it - his party colleagues.

The uncompromising Mexican cinema made two festival hits with consonant names this year - an action movie about the lawlessness of the State Directorate and Drama about the gym guard. The Elijah ( Heli ) took the Cannes prize, but “Galley” ( Halley ) , which came from the parallel contest “Sandens”, is not more interesting for an example.

Over the past year, the Hermitage often got into news feeds. On the one hand, these were reports of plans, including the opening of the new branches of the museum around the world , and the pan-European Biennale "Manifesto" , which will be held in St. Petersburg next year.

Mirzoev and Shenderovich collecting money for a television attest The fundraising on the Internet for the television parsley Vladimir Mirzoev and Viktor Shenderovich was announced. The play “Parsley”, whose protagonist “has an obvious political prototype”, Schenderovich wrote six years ago, but not a single theater wanted to put it. The authors of the future television test consider the crowdsourcing campaign the most correct and effective means of financing their project.

The Yekaterinburg Quartet Polska Radio One arose two years ago on the basis of a group playing garage rock - the guitarist and vocalist Dmitry Kutnyakov immediately declares that he would not want to call her name. After that, the group decided to perform psychedelic music - with an abundance of Revers and dealers.

New York City Opera threatens bankruptcy On Tuesday, October 1, the New York City Opera announced that she would soon stop working and start bankruptcy. According to RIA Novosti , the second largest opera theater of New York has recently experienced financial problems.

The media business is experiencing difficult times due to a decrease in income from subscription and advertising, so many media are trying to look for alternative sources of money. Do they remain the media if they begin to sell something else in parallel? There is a probability of maintaining status and a role - as the experience of The Texas Tribune shows. If the organization of socially significant events becomes an additional business.

The St. Petersburg ethnic group with 17 years of experience represents an animated video-the third in its history. The artist Arthur Merkulov painstakingly painted him for more than five years, so during this time the group changed the sound, and this song left the repertoire. The clip, however, will remain for a long time: Fedor Bastard, leader Theodor Bastard Arthur painted us with the clip "Selva" - an excellent job.

The Dutch photographer Rob Hornstan has been shooting the Russian hinterland for many years, in recent years he devoted to work on The Sochi Project - the filming of places where the Olympics will be held very soon. The project is over, the exhibition of photographs of Hornstra opens in Moscow. But the author himself will not be able to come - he and his colleague, who writes the accompanying photographs of the essay, refused a Russian visa without explanation.

The authors of the concepts of the new GTSIS are declared On Tuesday, October 1, in Moscow ten participants in the second stage of the international competition for the development of the architectural concept of the museum and exhibition complex of the State Center for Contemporary Art (GCSI) were announced.

Determined finalists of the Kandinsky Prize © Nadia Grishina / Kandinsky Nadia Prize Grishina. Disruption. 2012-13 (video installation) Today, October 2, finalists of the 2013 Kandinsky Prize became known. Of the 37 works of nominees, the international jury chose three works in each of the nominations.

The program of the International Memorial for October The international historical-educational, human rights and charitable society "Memorial" announced the program of events for October 2013. Conference hall of the International Memorial (Karetny Ryad, 5) October 3 at 19:00 - October one thousand nine hundred and ninety -third.

Recently, the attention of the literary public has been constantly attracted by the Gvideon magazine and the Russian Gulliver project, which is right before our eyes from a completely sane (see, for example, Vadim’s interview with three years ago ) turns into something completely different. This problem, it seems to me, is connected not so much with the personal qualities of the project participants or with the changed social situation as with the contradiction laid down in its very name.

Aitmatov’s heirs were evicted from a summer house in Peredelkino © "Moscow 24" The heirs of Genghis Aitmatov, after more than an annual trial, are evicted from the writer's cottage in Peredelkino.

The writer Tom Clans died © Nanopress According to its publisher, the writer died in the hospital of the city of Baltimore (Maryland), ITAR-TASS reports. Tom Clancy created the bestseller developed from a technical point of view about the Cold War and the events after it. In addition, he wrote scripts for a number of computer games. Tom Clans is known to the Russian reader from such works as “Hunting for“ Red October ”” (1984), “Patriots Games” (1987), “Direct and Explicit threat” (1989).