Peter O'Tul died © Columbia Pictures On Saturday, December 14, in London, at the 82nd year of his life, the British theater and film actor Peter O'Tul died. It is reported by The Guardian . Peter O'Tul was born in 1932 in Ireland, studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and worked at the Old Vic Bristolsky Theater. World fame to the actor brought the main role in the film "Lawrence of Arabian" (1962).

The corner of the deputy The first state Duma of Russia for some time resembled a communal apartment from old Soviet films: screams, the struggle for survival and the eternal shortage of square meters.

The MMDM will host the Festival "Nights of Siberia" © MMDM On December 20 and 21, the Moscow International House of Music (MMDM) will host the Siberia Nights Festival, combining the archaic music of the Siberian peoples, rock, electronics and modern composer music.

The Duma is in a hurry to approve the extra -court blocking of sites © Channel One The first reading of the bill on the extra -court blocking of sites in the State Duma is scheduled for Tuesday, December 17, the day will be assigned to the adoption of the amendments. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to the representative of the apparatus of the State Duma Information Committee.

Within the framework of the cycle, an interview with “more human things” Linor Goralik talks with people who create significant non -profit resources on the network. This time, Linor is asking Dmitry Homak, the “publisher” of the Lurkmore resource , about problems with the authorities, freedom of speech, author’s recklessness, searches for parents, the personal position of a person on whom all the cones are poured, as well as about Orthodox wrestlers with extremism and the essence of a dwarf.

At the Non / Fiction Fair this year was a large Swiss program . Among the stream of events within the framework of the program, a meeting was held with Mikhail Shishkin, the most famous Russian writer of our time, who lives outside of Russia. The meeting was led by Nadezhda Sikorskaya, the editor -in -chief of our newspaper published in Switzerland . Nadezhda Sikorskaya: We are visiting Mikhail Shishkin today. Topic: How the Russian -speaking writer feels abroad. In this case, in Switzerland.

Putin established prizes in the field of children's literature and art © Press Service of the President of Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin established three prizes in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth in the amount of 2.5 million rubles each. The Decree “On the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth” was published on the presidential website .

The singer and songwriter Misha Lusin is one of the Russians who, at the command of the soul, went to the Kiev Maidan of Nezalevniy. COLTA . Ru I asked him to bring a musical report from Kyiv. On the night of December 11, the Berkut special forces (this is Ukrainian riot police) and the internal troops tried to take the Maidan of Nebulia by storm, and it was one of the most emotional and dramatic moments of the confrontation between power and protesters.

The Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art has opened an exhibition of Mauritsa Cornelis Escher. It would seem that this artist has long become a bank of illustrations for book covers and magazine articles, dictionaries in psychology and esoteric treatises-is there anything else in it?

The main conductor of the Bolshoi Theater will be named before the New Year © DPA By the end of December, the name of the new chief conductor - the musical director of the Bolshoi Theater will be announced. About this today, December 16, reports Lenta.ru . On Sunday, December 15, at a press briefing before the general rehearsal of the opera Verdi Don Carlos, GABT Director General Vladimir Urin expressed a little less definitely.

At the end of his one -year curators on the Platform project, composer Alexander Manotskov held the Future Music festival, consisting of a record number of special works written for him. Among the authors were Vladimir Martynov, Dmitry Courland, paired with the art group Provmyz, Anton Vasiliev paired with Sergey Nevsky, Vladimir Rannev, Peter Pospelov, Boris Filanovsky, Sergey Pollov, Kirill Shirokov. Each festival day consisted of music and subsequent discussion with the public.

Last week, the thriller of Vladislav Pasikovsky “Koloski” was released in the Russian rental (Read more about the film here ). The story of a person, after many years of emigration of the memory of old horrors who returned to his native village (namely, the Jewish pogrom, made by the village without the direct participation of the Nazis), produced the effect of the atomic explosion in Poland.

A program about contemporary art began in Runet Today, December 16, the premiere of the new Internet project took place-a talk show about contemporary art "late at night with Dyakonov." The announcement on the YouTube page of the program says that it “tells mainly about the events of the nearest and distant past that have lost the news value, but nevertheless have already become a story that the authors are free to show through the filter of their favorite evening show of American television.”