The Council of Council has legalized the pre -trial blocking of sites © Rossosotorudnikiy Today, December 25, the Federation Council approved an extra -court restriction of access to sites calling for illegal actions. Corresponding amendments are made to the law "On Information, Information Technologies and on Information Protection". “The law creates a really working mechanism for protecting society from illegal information,” Senator Sergei Shcheblygin quotes RIA Novosti quoted.

Kekhman remains in the Mikhailovsky Theater for another five years The contract with the General Director of the Mikhailovsky Theater Vladimir Kekhman was extended for five years. This was reported by Rosbalt with reference to the press service of the administration of the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Vasily Kichedzhi. Kekhman came to the Mikhailovsky Theater in 2007 and has since been its general director, recalls Lenta.ru .

Died jazz musician Yusef Latif © Charles andersen / Flickr On Monday, December 23, in the USA, at the age of 93, the winner of the Grammy Award, a jazz composer and performer Yusef Latif, died. It is reported by Variety . Yusef Latif was one of the first musicians trying to unite ethnic music and jazz, he played on tenor-saxophone, flute, goboy, basket, bamboo flute and other instruments.

Grigory Dashevsky Thank you wide winged eagles. Rushing to the deepest heavenly corners, you break the feathers of the wings, You will die for the squadron of the squadron, breaking out of indestructible heavenly honeycombs ice at least grain to a person in a mouth - And he lives another moment. 1 Dec 2013 The last eldest Despite the greater difference in age, I perceived Grisha as the eldest, so I treated him. This happened, of course, not immediately.

The editors are ready to part with each other, readers and the cultural process until the end of the winter holidays. And there are things that I would like to say goodbye and forever. Today we publish a New Year's list: all that we would not want to face in 2014 (and in any other) year.

Russian prostitutes were not allowed to create a trade union © YouTube Irina Maslova The St. Petersburg court confirmed the Ministry of Justice’s refusal to register the Silver Rosa sex workers Association, thus refusing Russian prostitutes to create professional associations or organizations in their protection. On Tuesday, December 24, the Appeal Collegium of the St.

In St. Petersburg, the creative space "Fourth" was captured All day on December 24, in the center of St. Petersburg, the confrontation between residents of the creative space "Quatern" and representatives of the management company who tried to evict them continued.

Medvedev awarded Lermontov Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order to award the prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation in 2013 in the field of culture. Among the laureates, Director of National Lermontov Center in Serednikovo LLC Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. The text of the order is published on the website of the Ministry of Culture .

Having decided to move a little from the detrimental tradition of compiling New Year's lists of the best (especially since we liked little this year), we asked the participants and witnesses of the film process that the bad, in their opinion, happened in the movie in 2013. The result surpassed with nihilism all our expectations. 1. The death of directors Anton Dolin, critic: The most terrible is death, especially shockedly sudden as in the case of Alexei Herman and Alexei Balabanov.

2013 on television turned out to be productive for loud serial premieres, and some series-especially those that were not shot in America-modestly remained in the shade. COLTA. RU chose the best British premieres of the year, which remained almost unnoticed in Russia. We are sure that they will not disappoint you.

Ethical Cinema Charter will be adopted in 2014 © kinometro.ru The Union of Cinematographers of Russia (SK) plans to accept the final project of ethical charter for cinema workers in the first quarter of 2014. About this at the Plenum of the SK, passing today, December 25, in Moscow, said the first deputy chairman of the UK Sergey Lazaru, RIA Novosti reports.

This list does not claim objectivity. It reflects exclusively the sympathy of its compiler. The albums included in it cannot be called the decisive laws of the genre, but (not all) their authors - influential or even very famous. But they were pleased to listen to in 2013, they would not be forgotten in 2014 and can be suitable even for the New Year party. 1. Enterprise of the year Matthew E. White.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Two letters of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova from the Mordovian colony ( the first letter , the second letter ) written and published this fall belong to literature literally. The distance between reality and the word calling it is minimized in these letters - it is such a direct word about today's struggle that modern Russian prose avoids.

Roskomnadzor banned four words The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) has compiled a list of four obscene words, the use of which in the media is absolutely prohibited.