“Almost Man” is everywhere loudly announced as a successor to the “Running Blade”. Most likely, this happened against his will: the series, of course, would be more comfortable not to compete with Ridley Scott. But there are too many coincidences to resist the temptation to list them. The scene of both there and there is chosen a futuristic Los Angeles. The plot of the series is dated 2048, and the film is 2019.

On the Web, they collect money for a film about "Civil Defense" On the website Kroogi.com, the collection of money for the post -production of the documentary “Civil Defense. Start". It will include rare shots and interviews, the early chronicle of the group. The producer of the film is Boris Khlebnikov, the initiator and ideological inspirer of the project-Natalia Chumakova, the widow of Yegor and the bass player of the Civil Defense.

The main conductor of the Bolshoi Theater quit © Bolshoi Theater The chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theater Vasily Sinai, who has been this post since 2010, leaves the theater. “On December 2, 2013, Sinai submitted a departure application through the personnel department. After a conversation with him, I decided to satisfy his request.

On Sunday in Kyiv, the most massive protest was held since the 2004 Orange Revolution. About half a million people passed through the streets of the Ukrainian capital to demonstrate to President Viktor Yanukovych disagreement with his manner to rule the country. In fact, as you know, Kyiv was in a fever for a week and a half-from November 21, when the government, led by Nikolai Azarov, announced the suspension of the European integration of Ukraine.

Permm Museum received director Elena Petrova, who previously acted as the head of the museum, became the director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art of Permm. As ITAR-TASS reported in the Department of Information Policy of the Administration of the Perm Territory, a competitive commission came to this decision today. The Ministry of Culture of Prikamye announced the All -Russian competition for the replacement of the position of director of the museum in September.

Arkady Ippolitov will present a book about piranesi in St. Petersburg © Stanislav Chabutkin / Art1 Stanislav Chabutkin. Sight. 1983 On Tuesday, December 3, Name Gallery in St. Petersburg will host the presentation of the book of Arkady Ippolitov “Power and Prisons”. The myth of Giovanni's battles Piranesi.

On November 28, COLTA.RU began the new project “Cinema Believe” . The meaning of the project is in the online and offline locations of documentary cinema, which is engaged in acute social and public topics- in other words, today and now provokes us to the discussion.

They say she died in a dream, propping her cheek with her fist. Poetess, human rights activist, underground, martyr. A friend in life and a sister in poetry, a heroic woman, a great citizen of her native country, and also - France, and also - her beloved Poland, and also the cities of Prague, whose freedom she went to protect on August 25, 1968 on Red Square. We were introduced by Brodsky, whom we were friends then well.

Helmut Lahenman will come to the Moscow Forum © Markus KircHgesner The XIV International Festival of Modern Music "Moscow Forum" will be held at the Moscow Conservatory from December 16 to 20. His guest will be the German composer Helmut Lahenman. This year, the festival is dedicated to the new music of Russia and Germany, its topic is “for barbed music”. The forum program includes nightly concerts from Monday to Friday, as well as a daily discussion and educational program.

A quiet voice, repeatedly drowned out by the tread of paving stones, behind which she, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, was barely audible for so long. The high price is not only human - but also poetic. What to do - a step is more heard. History does not teach poetry, Poetry History - even more so, And who is tormenting anyone on the shipments, You will not shuffle ... You will not shuffle. We went out to the square. What came of this - everyone knows. Psyche, zones, links. Broken fates.

On December 5th, as part of the SELECTOR Live parties , the 16 tons club will be performed by Wild Beasts , one of the most inventive British groups of recent times. Eccentrics, inspired by Artyur Rimbao and Fovists. Geniuses of alliteration and double meanings in the texts. Charming eccentrics, who were knocked out of the provincials in the Mercury Prize nominees . Yegor Antoshchenko talked with the guitarist of the group Ben Little about why the new Wild Beast plate would be almost electronic.

This is a fragment of a conversation with Natalia Gorbanevskaya on August 30, 2013. She arrived in Moscow on the 45th anniversary of the demonstration against the commissioning of Soviet troops in Prague in 1968. August 25, as then, at 12 o’clock Gorbanevskaya reached Red Square, holding, as then, the slogan “for your and our freedom”. If 8 people protest against the entry of troops into Czechoslovakia, then not everyone agrees.

"Big Book" opens the season © "Big Book" The Council of Experts of the National Literary Prize "Big Book" began receiving applications. It will continue until February 28, 2014. According to the regulations on the award, the Council of Experts accepts the manuscript and works signed in the press from January 1, 2013 to February 28, 2014, RIA Novosti reports.

Tsiscaridze called Ephman to Vaganovka © TK "Rain" I.O. The rector of the St. Petersburg Academy of the Russian Ballet named after A.Ya. Vaganova Nikolai Tsiskaridze invited to teach the artistic director of the Dance Academy Boris Eifman there. “From the first second, as I was appointed, Boris Yakovlevich [Eifman] called me first and congratulated me on it.

Dozens of journalists suffered in Kyiv © EURONEWS Roman Kupriyanov During the clashes of the protest shares with law enforcement officials in Kyiv, 40 journalists have suffered over the past days. Most of them were beaten by the police. Reuters agency Reuters Gleb Gabanich employees of the Golden Eagle Police division of special appointment divided their heads, the special forces attacked Roman Kupriyanov ’s operator after he refused to stop the shooting of a person they have beaten.