Winners of World Press Photo are named © John Stanmeyer / VII Photo Agency / National Geographic Today, February 14, the results of the 57th annual international photojournalism competition World Press Photo are announced. The night picture of African migrants on the seashore made by John Stenmeer (USA) won. This work is recognized as the best photograph of 2013 and was awarded the first award in the category of "Actual Topics".

Onegin Chernyakov remains at the Bolshoi Theater © Damir Yusupov / Bolshoi Theater Scene from the opera Evgeny Onegin The General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin changed his mind to shoot the opera Evgeny Onegin from the repertoire in the production of Dmitry Chernyakov. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to the theater’s press attache, Katerina Novikova. “Vladimir Georgievich went to the performance and saw that both vocally and stage production was at a decent level.

Free book publishing service earned in Runet The online service of automatic layout of Ridero has begun work in test mode. Its users can create their own book and send it to online stores. The emergence of a free automatic layout of books on the Russian market became known in October last year, recalls pro-books.ru . It took five years to develop Ridero .

On violation of the constitutional rights of citizens to freedom of speech and obtaining and disseminating information Recently, in our country, an extremely dangerous tendency to restrict the constitutional rights of citizens, first of all, restrictions on freedom of speech and the right to disseminate and receive information, has been increasingly manifested in our country. Here are just the events of the last few weeks.

Pussy phrase Riot is constantly flashing in the news, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova every day become Newsmakers, their photo is again placed on the cover of the magazine "Poster" - already without a balaclava. “ Pussy Riot will go to check the prisons of the USA” , “ Pussy Riot became guests of the comedy program in the United States” , “Madonna and Pussy Riot performed on the same stage in New York” , “ Pussy Riot participants will be at the Berlinal gala vecher” .

In the mid-90s, I fell into my hands somewhat wrapped with tape video cassettes-a documentary series BBC . It was called "human life." All his series were colorful and very cognitive: there was a computer graphics and a 3D model of the baby, there was about the subtleties of education, and about susceptibility to microbes in a dirty African puddle, then on the marble royal floor, there was about hormones of love and just hormones, about career and birth, birth in old age, old age.

Perm Choir, Chernyakov and Krentzis apply for Opera Awards A list of nominees of the Opera Awards 2014 International Opera Award. Among them are the Musicaeterna choir of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater, director Dmitry Chernyakov and conductor Theodore Krentzis.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky became a commander © Rarusnet The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II awarded the Russian conductor Gennady Christmas, the honorary sign of the commander of the excellent order of the British Empire.

I was never printed in BG, was not his passionate fan, did not collect numbers, did not stole them on the mezzanine. I was a passive reader of “BG” - and in this sense, probably, his reader is typical. “The candidate of sciences shook the coat of the second poet after white” - so, according to legend, told Mandelstam in the transit camp to one of the sidelts who helped him. So I now feel like such a candidate of sciences, shaking a Mandelstamov coat. I have one strange feeling with BG.

Just a few words. First, why? Because our friends from Yandex. Music ”invited us to participate . And because sharing music is an addiction. What is there, at the end of this division, it is never known. But I do not exclude that this is also a way to leave traces of oneself in others (the music is radioactive). Secondly, Valentine, oh well? I agree that playlists to the days of saints make up, as a rule, in Catholic municipalities.

On February 15, the British group of Young Knives will perform in the SELECTOR LIVE parties in SELECTOR LIVE . Recently, the eccentric post-punk-trio abandoned the contract with the record label and recorded in the garage using home-made instruments the album “Sick Octave”-almost the best career in ten years. - At the beginning of the album, the child sings and counts - whose whose is it? - My.

COLTA.RU continues the “Responsibility” heading: Dear people, people answer a question that has been ardently discussed in recent days. On February 4, it has been 10 years since the launch of a media resour, which has gone from a student Harvard between a landscape to a global network with millions of users. What Facebook gave us and what he took away, his active users - journalists, writer, artist and poet.

The village of Shoyna is located on the shores of the White Sea - and almost doomed. It brings it with sand. Dmitry Lelchuk and Dominic de Riva made the photo album “Sandy People of Shoyna”, and Dominic shot the Elegy film. Nikolai Ovchinnikov asked about their impressions of people and dying in front of the village. Dmitry Lelchuk - How did you find out about Shoyne? - In 2005, I still studied at the institute in Hamburg. I studied media equipment.

In St. Petersburg, they began to be fine for abuse on the Internet © Prosecutor's Office of St. Petersburg The prosecutor’s office of St. Petersburg fined the user of the VKontakte social network for an indecent word that he used in correspondence with another user. According to the investigation, we are talking about insulting the opponent “in a rude, cynical, contrary to the rules of behavior,” reports Echo of Moscow .