On Friday evening, I fervored with fervor to my friend that Russian aggression against Ukraine is an unthinkable case. Reinforcing the speech with a completely understandable set of arguments. That Crimea and East of Ukraine are not South Ossetia.

Alexey Venediktov was re -elected by the head of the Echo of Moscow © Irina Vorobyova / Twitter Today, March 3, overwhelming the votes of the general meeting of journalists of the Echo Moskvy radio station, Alexei Venediktov was re -elected by the editor -in -chief. 72 people voted for him, 4 against it, abstained - 3, the site "Echo of Moscow" reports. “For - 81% of the list and 91% of those present - it is better than GDP but worse than Ramzan,” Venediktov himself commented on Twitter.

On March 11, in Moscow, the large -scale festival “Unlimited: body, society, culture” , dedicated to the Paralympics. It is organized by the social project "Forture", which is involved in the problems of perception of disability in society. According to the organizers, the meaning of this festival is to attract as many people as possible to an open, intellectual conversation about body and disability in the modern world.

Awarded "Oscars" © The Wrap On Sunday, March 2, in Los Angeles the 86th ceremony of presenting the Academy Academy “Oscar” took place. The best film of 2013 was recognized as the historical drama of the British director Steve Maccuin “12 years of slavery” (12 Years A Slave). The Oscar was awarded to the best director Alfonso Koaron (Mexico) for the science fiction thriller "Gravity" ( Gravity ).

The heads of Russian television channels responded to Ukrainian colleagues The leaders of the NTV, VGTRK and Channel One responded to the open letter of the leaders of four Ukrainian media groups, in which they called on Russian television channels to objectively cover events in Ukraine.

The films of the Venetian festival will be shown in "Illusion" © CoolConnections Frame from the movie "Street in Palermo" On March 11, the Fifth Festival “From Venice to Moscow” opens at the Illusion cinema, which will present the best Italian films from the official program of the Venice Film Festival.

Russian writers Kharkov: We do not need military protection from another state © Mediaport.ua at an anti -war rally in Kharkov, March 2 Russian -speaking writers from Kharkov distributed a statement in which they refute the infringement of the rights of Russians in Ukraine and protest against Russian military intervention.

The distributor of Pornensultfilms received three years © hdbackground.net By the age of three, a resident of Vologda was conditionally sentenced for the distribution of Japanese pornographic cartoons Hentai. This is the first sentence in Russia. “The first to disseminate Hentai on the Internet was punished by a resident of Vologda (his name and age are not disclosed),” the statement published today, March 3, on the League of a safe Internet (LBI) .

Tomorrow Alexander Etkind will fly to Moscow. And we have long wanted to meet and talk. If the meeting was before, then we would probably talk about his book “Internal Colonization” or “Hlystyshchina in the Russian Revolution”, but these days I wrote to him: we will talk about what can be called the “language of invasion”, about the discourse of war, violence and conflict. Since we are witnesses of a historical case.

The program of the International Memorial for March © International Memorial The international historical-educational, human rights and charitable society "Memorial" announced a program of events for March 2014.

A long, in German taste, the name of the SchNELLERTOLLERMEIER Trio is formed from a joke for the distorted names of the musicians - Basist Andy Schneellman, guitarist Manuel Troller and David Mayer. The surname of the latter does not even need editing: in form it already resembles a comparative degree - only here the adjective does not exist.

Almost 360 works apply for a “big book” The authors of 359 books and manuscripts were applicants for the ninth season of the National Literary Prize "Big Book". “Among nominated authors are a large number of novice writers, but there are also writers well -known to the wide audience, including those who were among the finalists and even laureates of the award,” the big book said in a statement.

"Auktsyon" against the war Today, March 3, the Russian rock band Auktsyon changed a photograph of the cover of its community on the Facebook social network-now it is a crossed out word “War”. The new cover of the Auktsyon community liked 1400 Facebook users. Thus, the Auktsyon group joined the anti-war statements of other Russian rock musicians: Boris Grebenshchikov, Yuri Shevchuk and Andrei Makarevich, previously protested against the armed conflict with Ukraine.

The day before yesterday, when the Federation Council gave the go -ahead to enter the Russian troops into Ukraine, my good friend, Kiev artist Nikita Kadan, said that the exhibition in Moscow, in which he had to participate and two more Ukrainian artists, Lada Lada Topo and Nikolai Ridny is canceled: “The exhibition will not open. More precisely, maybe it will open, but the devil knows when - when everything changes.

Ukrainian media groups called on Russian TV to objectivity © Russia-1 The leaders of the four Ukrainian media groups made an open letter calling for Russian television channels to objectively cover events in Ukraine. According to Lenta.ru , the text of the letter is given on March 3, UNIAN. It is addressed to Channel One Channelian Channel Channel Konstantin Ernst, General Director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev and NTV General Director Vladimir Kulistikova.