The paved square in front of the Dynamo stadium on Grushevsky Street - a gate to the center of Ukrainian authorities - drives crazy. There is no sense in smoke, because of the broken light-school grenades, it is not heard of each other, in masks it is difficult to breathe and there are no faces, under flying cobblestones-it’s scary. Here for the first time in many years of Ukrainian history, people with citizens died in a clash of citizens.

In the early 1980s, “strange games” shocked the regulars of the Leningrad rock club with exotic for the union SKA-Punker and stage performances around a bucket of liquid nitrogen, which inspired Sergei Kurekhin on pop mechanic. They were Russian brothers Madness , which arose independently in the conditions of musical and information hunger. The group lasted very brightly and very briefly, literally a couple of years after the recognition, breaking into the “Games” and “Avia”.

Pavel Durov will leave VKontakte within a month © DLD Dialogues The powers of the general director of the VKontakte social network Pavel Durov will be terminated according to the results of an extraordinary meeting of the company participants, which will be held no later than February. The meeting of participants in VKontakte LLC, according to the Digit.ru source, will be held on the initiative of one of the shareholders.

The Mikhailovsky Theater continues to rock the opera boat with the help of alien theatrical aesthetics. That is - to experiment with bright dramatic directors that have already formed their style. Last season, Andrei Zholdak, “Eugene Onegin”, set his first opera here. And the performance shot - the other day it is shown in Moscow on the Golden Mask. Now - Andrei's debut of the mighty. The creator of the Formal Theater has already met a little in his life with the opera genre.

Handed "Grammy" © Columbia Records / YouTube On Sunday evening, January 26, in Los Angeles the 56th Grammy presentation ceremony, a music award of the American Academy of Sound Recording, was held. In the most prestigious nominations, the French house daet Daft Punk won.

-Natalia, our conversation takes place on the eve of January 27, that is, the 70th anniversary of the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad, and this day of memory, this holiday has recently been renamed, turning on the day of the full liberation of the Soviet troops of the city of Leningrad from the blockade of its fascist troops.

British critics awarded Mikhailovsky ballet © Mikhailovsky Theater Natalya Osipova in the ballet "Laurencia" The ballet of the Mikhailovsky Theater became the laureate of the British Circle Prize in the nomination “Best Ballet Company”, Natalya Osipova, Prima-Blerina, was awarded in the “Best Dancer” category. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to the press service of the theater. The British circle of critics unites more than 50 journalists writing about ballet and dance in English.

The film of the Portuguese directors of Zhoao Rui Herra and Matyo and Joao Pedru Rodrighesh “The last time I saw the Macau” became the chamber festival hit of the last year-a quiet, lyrical traveler, going beyond the narrow framework of Quir-Kino, to which the work of this duet usually gravitates. This is a portrait of the city (the faces of a protagonist-storyteller, like people of other characters, we do not see), which is a thing of the past along with his colonial history.

The world of video games is in many ways the territory of vain expectations and unfulfilled hopes. An office worker and a venerable family man are waiting for a continuation of his youth’s beloved game, a fan of a detective novel dreams of visiting the image of his hero, a young man hopes for a quest output on a rare series, a bored Esthet is trying to find a pearl in a stream of commercial games, the developers want to release something really original and successful at the same time.

The Message to Man comes to the CDC © Alan Berliner / HBO FROM FROM THE COVERSY OFFICE FILMENT The first Russian International Documentary Film Festival, “Message to Man”, will now be held in Moscow - in the center of documentary cinema.

Vladimir Urin will lead the Bolshoi Theater Ballets © IMG Artists At the Bolshoi Theater, the Artistic Council of the ballet troupe is reorganized. The leadership of the Council is assumed by the general dirker of the theater Vladimir Urin. “On the initiative of the artistic director of the ballet troupe Sergei Filin, the General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin decided to expand the art council of ballet.

Department of History of Moscow State University was headed by an employee of the FSO © Channel One The head of the Department of Russian Century of the History Faculty of Moscow State University, the head of the Service of Public Relations of the Federal Security Service Sergey Devyatov, was appointed. The first meeting of the department, led by an official, will be held in early February, Kommersant reports. According to Devyatov, he will combine teaching with work in the FSO.

Gnesin school will be repaired by the end of the year © Sos-gnesinka.gallery.ru The Department of Construction of the city of Moscow announced the completion of the reconstruction of three buildings of the music school named after Gnesins (MSSMSh). Completely, reconstruction work will end by the end of 2014.

The winners of Sundance are declared © Thr The 30th Festival of Independent Cinema Sundance ended in Park City (Utah). The best films are recognized by “Whiplash” Damien Shazella (USA) and “To Kill A Man” Alejandro Fernandez Almens (Chile). In addition to the main prize , “Whiplash” , which opened the festival on January 16, received a prize of spectator sympathies, reports The Los Angeles Times . A year ago, at Sundance, the young director received a reward for a short version of this film.