Moscow State University sank in the ranking of universities in the world Russian universities worsened their positions in the 2013/14 International University Rating of the British magazine Times Higher Education. The highest place for Moscow State University: in the interval from the 226th to the 250s, last year it was in the 201-225 group.

“And that’s all? For this, we knew dirt from the scene? " -An ethnographer and master of play on the shepherd Rok, Sergei Starostin, looks at wet journalists who take turns basking at the reflector in the festival press show. Starostin was asked a couple of questions from the series “Why do you need ethnic music at all”, and then silence hung.

"Russian booker" announced the finalists © "Russian Bookter" Today, October 3, at a press conference in Moscow, six novels were announced, which included in the short list of the annual literary prize "Russian Bouquer". They were selected from the “Long List” of the award, in which there were 24 works, including the novels of Nikolai Baytov, Maya Kucheskaya, Vadim Levental, Alexander Kabakov and Alexander Arkhangelsky.

“... floats. Where can we swim? " A.S. Pushkin Ilya Kabakov as the son of the Soviet underground and the father of Russian conceptualism does not need a presentation. The further, the less. A rare contemporary artist is represented so abundantly in all institutions, at all events. For a long time emigrating Kabakov for many years did not sound in his homeland, preferring to conquer the world arena. Its business card is a long -classic motive for the Soviet communal apartment for a long time.

Patriotic historians ask to remove the picture of Repin from the Tretyakov Gallery © GTG Ilya Repin. Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581. 1885 (fragment) A group of historians and public figures turned to the leadership of the State Tretyakov Gallery with a request to put the picture of Repin “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581,” since it, in their opinion, offends the patriotic feelings of Russian people.

It all started with the fact that COLTA . RU decided to make a survey in connection with, to put it mildly, an unpleasant situation. In St. Petersburg, the exhibition of Ilya Trushevsky was opened, in a press release of which something unimaginable was written, given everything that was previously written about the crime that was committed to them.

This film is indeed the habits of Leviathan: he swallows the viewer at the very first minute and spits back into the darkness of the hall - dumbfounded, helpless - only on the final credits. The opening quote from the book of Job, written out by Gothic font - “There is no similar on earth” - is not lying. Finding analogues of this movie experiment in history is really difficult, if possible.

Shineid O'Connor shamed Miley Cyrus © RCA Records / YouTube frame from the Miley Cyrus clip "Wreaking Ball" The Irish singer Shineid O'Connor addressed an open letter to her young American colleague Miley Cyrus, which she criticizes for frivolity: in one of the last clips, Cyrus appears naked. We are talking about the video on the single "Wrecking Ball" , which was released at the end of August this year and took first place in the Billboard Hot 100 .

The St. Petersburg group by-bye Violet Tapes is gathered by the constant author of Colta.ru Radif Kashapov and musician Egor Ryazantsev. Radiff writes songs, Yegor brings them to mind and writes. The group prepares two mini-albums for the exit. The first is called “dialectics”-it is expected to have songs in different languages ​​and free structures in arrangements, on the second, “dialectics, on the contrary,” the group presented its view of pop music in Russian.

There is such rarely practiced in Russia, but an extremely pleasant form - public conversations in home mode: a small circle - and about everything in a row. Of course, with an exciting interlocutor. Colta.ru wants to start a series of such evenings in Moscow clubs. And for the first evening, I called the faithful friend of the editorial office of Linor Goralik.

Banksy paints New York This week, graffiti of the British street artist Banksy appeared in different places of New York. On October 1, the first work of Banksy was discovered in Chinatown - a boy standing on the back of another and trying to reach the plate, which says “graffiti is a crime”. According to ITAR-TASS , the picture remained on the wall of the house for only a few hours, after which it was painted with white paint.

- Marianna, you are one of the youngest laureates of the award Andrei Bely, often appear at literary events, but constantly keep a blog in a living magazine. Communication through the network is more convenient for you? And how important is the feedback: commentary, accidental acquaintance?

Will Repin’s painting in Tretyakov Gallery put out security? © Starosti.ru icon painter Abram Balashov, in 1913, cutting the face of the characters of Repin with the words "Enough blood" The State Tretyakov Gallery will consider the issue of the additional protection of Repin’s painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581”, which is required to put “patriotic” activists in the storerooms. GTG director Irina Lebedeva hopes that additional security may not be needed.