The program of the Festival "Return" was announced From January 6 to 12, the 17th Hall of the Moscow Conservatory will host the XVII festival of chamber music “Return”. The festival program has four thematic evenings. On January 6, a “concert on the request” will be held. The program has Beethoven, Pulenk, Trapcus, Nielsen, as well as the premiere of the work of the young composer Alexei Kurbatov, written specifically for the festival.

On Thursday, news sites reported that the rap artist Roman Chumakov, known as Roma Zhigan in the circle of his fans, was detained on suspicion of robbery. Threatening with a knife, Roman forced his PR manager to return 100,000 rubles under the pretext of poorly completed work-and besides, he took the tablet from him and received PR throughout the country after that.

"School of modern play" will be restored for 700 million © Fedor Sidorenko / Twitter According to preliminary estimates, the cost of restoration work necessary to restore the burned -up building of the School of Modern Play in Moscow will amount to about 700 million rubles. The fire in the theater "School of the Modern Play" occurred on November 3, the fire area was 500 sq.m. The cause of the fire was the old electrical wiring.

The scandal around the opening of the exhibition Ksenia Peretrukhina “Alternative attempt” , and the theater on Taganka, shoots the duplet of new projects of the “anniversary year group” - while director Semyon Aleksandrovsky, the last strokes in the play “The Presence” about the fate of Lyubimov’s “good man from Szhezan” (the premiere is scheduled for the near future on Saturday), Stadnikov issued the documentary production “The rehearsal of the orchestra”, the first public shows of which again

Permm Museum is evicted from the building of the river station © Natalya Staroverova / Reports.travel.ru The Leninsky District Court of Perm ordered the PermM Museum of Contemporary Art to leave the building of the former river station, as he recognized it emergency.

It is difficult to describe one impression, some one stroke that would characterize what is happening here now. The days merged into one continuous series and no longer differ from one another. Maidan, standing at the Rada, the construction of barricades, the assault on the barricades, the demolition of the monument to Lenin, an attempt to break into the Maidan, the blockade of the police area ... and - lack of sleep, lack of sleep, lack of sleep. When was it? Yesterday? Day before yesterday?

"Poster" launched an online cinema On the Internet, the resource "Poster-series" earned, whose users are offered Russian and foreign series from the collections of "Amediates", Megogo, Tvigle.ru, IVI, Now and Zoomby. According to Gazeta.ru with reference to the press service of the joint company "Afisha -rambler-Sup", most of the content on the site Show.afisha.ru will be free.

The writer Chabua Amirejibi died On the night of Friday, December 13, at the age of 92, the classic of Georgian literature of the 20th century died, the author of the famous novel “Date of Tutashhia” Chabua Amirejibi. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the News-Georgia agency. Chabua Amirejibi was born in 1921 in Tbilisi in the family of a lawyer, originating from an ancient princely kind.

Steffi Wurster, a German theater artist and video artist, for five years annually came to Sochi to remove the residents of the Imereta Bay, which is entirely occupied by Olympic objects and Townhales today. The heroes of her film were several local activists, desperately trying to defend their rights to property and land (literally - Chernozem, which the immigrants “Kamazami” are taken to new, barren areas allocated by the authorities). - What impression did Sochi on you on your first visit?

Beyoncé suddenly released the album © Columbia / YouTube Today, December 13, the American R'N'B performer Beyoncé without warning released a new album called Beyoncé. According to Lenta.ru , it is available for purchase to iTunes users. So far, it can only be bought entirely, including all tracks, videos and bonuses, but later tracks with Beyoncé will begin to sell separately. There are 14 songs on the fifth studio album of Beyoncé, a clip is shot for each of them.

Munich will meet Gergiev Protest On December 18, on the day when Valery Gergiev will be conducted by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the main conductor of which he will become in 2015, a demonstration against discrimination of sex minorities in Russia will be held at the Munich Philharmonic building. According to Deutsche Welle with reference to the DPA agency, an action under the motto "With love to Russia!" The initiative group of voters Rosa Liste is preparing.

On November 22, the 50th anniversary of the death of Clive Steapleza Lewis, the scientist, the writer and apologet, the author of the famous “Chronicle of Narniy” turned 50. The central event of this anniversary, widely celebrated around the world, was the grand opening of a memorial plate with the name of Lewis in the corner of the poets of the Westminster Abbey.

After a recent incident with the liquidation of the RIA Novosti agency and further discussion of this plot in social networks, quoting a title song from the popular television series Valery Todorovsky became an evil tone, but getting off from the line “I thought it was spring, / and this thaw” is not so easy: as it may I have, and Konstantin Meladze managed to accommodate the whole into this tapshit formula. The universal paradigm of Russian life.

In Moscow, the premiere of the opera Dmitry Courland will be held On December 20, in the Moskvich cultural center, the Operapop, Vasily Barkhatov, will present the premiere of the opera Asteroid 62 Dmitry Kurlandsky in the production of Kapitolina Tsvetkova-Snootnikova.

Disputes about whether video games are art are already tired of it. But at the end of 2013, reasons to talk on this subject arise almost weekly. The fifth of the Gangster saga “ Grand Theft Auto” turned out to be an interactive series of dreams and in the first day earned as much as “Avatar” in half a month: a billion. The actors Willem Defoe and Ellen Page starred in the game “ Beyond: Two Souls” , which is actually not a game, but a complex film.