Evgeny Kisin became a citizen of Israel © Slipped Disc Russian pianist Yevgeny Kisin received Israeli citizenship. The identity certificate and the Israeli passport Kisin received at the ceremony, which was attended by the head of the dry, Nathan Scharansky and the Minister of Absorption of Sofa Landver, reports MIGNEWS .

Liquidized by RIA Novosti agency © RIA Novosti Today, December 9, Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which the RIA Novosti International Information Agency is liquidated and a new state and formagnancy is created - Russia Today. The decree “On some measures to improve the efficiency of the state media” was published on the presidential website .

Will Dovlatov Street appear in New York? © Nina Alvert One of the streets of New York is proposed to be named in honor of the writer Sergei Dovlatov. According to the Russian News Service , the corresponding petition is posted on the website of Change.org . The authors of contacting the City Council of New York propose to rename the 63RD Drive Street located in the Queens district, on which Sergei Dovlatov lived in Sergei Dovlatov Way .

The deadlines of the Moscow exhibition of Banksy were announced © Banksy / Lazarides Limited Banksy. Slow Down. 2003 From September 25 to October 19, 2014, the Banksy exhibition will be held in the Central Exhibition Hall of Mange in Moscow. Retrospective. " This was announced today, December 9, the art director of MVO "Manezh" Andrei Vorobyov transfers RIA Novosti . “The Banksi exposition will at least double its last exhibition that took place in the USA. He specified.

Amazingly, the times are such that even a state agency may turn out to be a "link of a fucking chain." This metaphor in the media test with the light hand of Philip Dzyadko has been denoting a series of dismissal and reduction of space for maneuver in the media for the past two years. Two months ago, I wrote that the state is growing on the media market tandem of the two state-subbles -ITAR-TASS and RIA Novosti.

Putin amnesties Pussy Riot and Greenpeace © Stepan Razin / Prose.ru Vladimir Putin introduced to the State Duma a decree on an amnesty on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The amnesty will affect 20-22 thousand people, among them are seven persons involved in the “swamp business”, members of the Pussy Riot group and Greenpeace activists. The articles incriminated by Alexei Navalny did not enter the amnesty, Izvestia reports.

Before I saw this film, I thought like this: I will write a warning. I will start right away with the fact that in this case I am biased and engaged. That Pussy Riot - and Tolokonnikova with Alekhina in particular - seem to me by the heroines of today and heroines in general and that any film, shot about them and in their favor, I approve in advance.

December 5 on COLTA . RU took place the first online show in the framework of the Sinema Belief project -the German film Annecatrine Hendel about the cooperation of Bohemia and Stasi. Before that, the film was shown in the Moscow club Fassborder , and after the show, such a discussion took place - with the participation of sociologist Boris Dubin, political scientist Alexander Morozov, historian Nikita Petrov, as well as COLTA representatives . Ru - Maria Stepanova and Mikhail Ratgauz.

Museum of the cinema collects money on the network for the exhibition of Ganna Ganevskaya © Ganna Ganevskaya / Museum of Cinema Ganna Ganevskaya. Gleb Panfilov "Jeanne d'Arc" (fragment) sketch The cinema museum for its 25th anniversary is planning an exhibition of sketches of the artist on costume Ganna Ganevskaya. In order to redeem the collection of her works and organize an exhibition, a million rubles are required. The fundraising is held on the Internet on the website Planeta.ru.

In Moscow, the book “Textilers. Guest notebooks of Mikhail Grobman " On Sunday, December 15, the presentation of the publication “Textilers. Guest notebooks of Mikhail Grobman. ” The basis of the book is 18 facsimally published school notebooks with autographs of friends of the circle of an outstanding figure of the second Russian avant -garde Mikhail Grobman. This circle was made up by artists, poets, writers, collectors, representatives of informal art of 1964-1971.

A monument to Lenin was demolished in Kyiv © Oleksandr Aronets / Twitter.com On Sunday, December 8, unknown demolished the monument to Lenin on Bessarabskaya Square in the center of Kyiv. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Ukrainian police, the flags of the Freedom nationalist party were visible in the crowd. Nationalists did not take responsibility for the demolition of the monument.

Last Saturday, the legendary La Scala Theater opened its new season - this is a significant event in the European cultural life according to the long tradition, on December 7, on the day of the patron of Milan, St. Ambrose. Dmitry Chernyakov, the director of the new “Traviata”, the most responsible performance of the anniversary Verdievsky year.

- Where is such an interest in Russia from the Swiss Public Fund? - We had many reasons to start working in Russia. The main, perhaps, is that Swiss artists, writers, filmmakers are seriously interested in your country and what is happening here, especially in the field of contemporary art. And, I must say, this is mutual interest. It seemed to us important to tell each other what our countries live, what values ​​unite us, how cultures intersect.

On December 10, the Moscow Hall club will perform the Berlin duo STEREO Total , whose songs will not be confused with anything. It sounds like an infantile multi-language electro-pop, but in fact it is music for adults and formed from a couple of Berlin musicians and artists-Bowkel Gerring and Francoise Landytus. The first joint record of the duet made in 1993 was on a culinary theme-each line in the song had a sexual connotation.

Lukin: The Ministry of Culture “slows down” the perpetuating of the memory of the victims of political repression © Radio Liberty The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin said that the Ministry of Culture “slows down” the program for perpetuating the memory of victims of political repressions of the twentieth century. It is reported by ITAR-TASS .