Singapore is a state that, in some parameters, resembling Russia. Here, one party actually rules, if not - a grouping, although others formally exist. The opposition is brutally persecuted. There are censorship and many prohibitive laws. For example, the Law against LGBT , similar to the Russian law on the “propaganda of homosexuality”, is used by the authoritarian regime selectively-where it is necessary to punish someone for the same opposition activity.

Little Odessa-the area in Brighton Beach, populated by immigrants from the USSR-not only a place on the map of New York, but at the same time, the state of mind. The inhabitants of Little Odessa nostalgic in their homeland left in the past, trying to recreate what they had once had. They cling to a Soviet way of life, which almost does not exist in the countries of their origin.

All large obituary are written, the maestro colleagues have already responded with mournful and bright words , and Wikipedia closed the bracket (1933-2014) in an article on Claudio Abbado. Abbado, like Karayan, Gorovitsa, Menukhin and Richter, lingered for a long time at the threshold of eternity, continuing to lead a completely intense dialogue with the listener, but as if not from here. He became transparent.

The Lenin Museum disappeared in St. Petersburg © Vladimir Ivanov Museum V.I. Lenin on Merdobolskaya Street in St. Petersburg turned into a private apartment. According to the Echo of Moscow radio station, local communists drew attention to this. They demand that the authorities return Lenin’s last conspiratorial apartment to the property of the city and restore the exposition. The Communists held a series of single pickets dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Lenin's death.

Dasha Zhukov was suspected in racism © Buro 24/7 The editor-in-chief of Garage magazine Dasha Zhukov was in the center of the Internet scandal caused by her photography, which, according to observers, expresses the “superiority of the White race”. We are talking about an illustration for an interview published on Monday, January 20, the Russian online magazine Buro 24/7 . On it, Zhukova sits in a chair, which is a seat based on a lying half -naked black woman.

Public television will halve states © OT Anatoly Lysenko, Director General of Russian Public Television (OTR), said that due to the difficult financial situation of the channel in the next two months, the staff of the editorial staff would be halved.

Theododoros Terzopoulos presented in Perm the "Nosfrata" © Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. P.I. Tchaikovsky The Greek director Theodoros Terzopoulos held in Perm the presentation of the play “Nosferatu”, which he will put on the stage of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater. “It will be a tool-vocal installation,” the theater blog quotes Teropoulos. The musical basis of the performance was created by modern composer Dmitry Courland.

"Katti Sark" will turn into the theater © The Drum The famous Katti Sarkk sailboat, standing on the shores of Thames in the London district of Greenwich, will become a theater platform - Michael Edwards Studio Theatre will be located there. The new theater with an 85-seater hall is named after the theater producer, which is part of the Council of the trustees of Katti Sark. According to BBC , the performances of artists aboard Katti Sark will begin on January 29.

The touring infrastructure of Russia is such that it would be enough to identify Moscow, St. Petersburg and a couple more cities-millionaires on the country's concert map, and the medieval “lions are found here” on top of the rest of the territory. Tours of foreigners, with the exception of the traditionally loved Nazareth and Scorpions, are usually limited to visits in two capitals-or even one, if we are talking about something more specific, say, a frer jazz or an advanced rock.

Labble "Mariinsky" received the International Prize On Monday, January 20, the Laureates of the International Classical Music Awards were announced. One of them was the disk of the Mariinsky label with the opera Prokofiev "Player". According to the Mariinsky Theater website , 264 audio and video recordings of 94 sound recording labels from around the world competed in the Mariinsky Best Nomination/ DVD.

February 4, Moscow Space Electronics Group Race to Space produces on the Label "Dark Horses" the debut album " IS This Home ? " , and on February 12, it will present it with a concert at the Club of 16 tons . In support of the album, the keyboard player and the permanent director of the clips of the group Peter Fedorov shot a clip in which her vocalist - actress Miriam Sehon first appears. In the role of airless space - the outskirts of South Butov.

The course on conservatism, designated by Putin, is the construction of the island of "traditional values" require information design. Actually, the restriction of information is today the main condition for the creation of new conservatism. The point is not even that some information can be a “harmful” or “undermining basis”. The point is its quantity. The postmodern society uses an excess of information as fuel.