The State Duma offers to cancel the ban on photography in museums The State Duma subcommittee on the Internet and the development of electronic democracy proposed to cancel the legislative ban on free photography of museum exhibits and museum buildings. It is also proposed to allow the spread of photographs taken in the Museum without the consent of the museum administration. “We need to expand our citizens' access to information.

Nothing has been written about the prose of Sergei Kruglov, unlike his poems: “Bird Dvor” is his first book in this genre. The main features of the author’s biography are known to everyone: in 1999 he accepted the priest’s rank, did not write poetry for a long time, and then appeared on the literary sky with texts that are significantly different from his former literary practice. This applies not only to poetry, but also to prose.

Scientists opposed Kiselev A group of Russian scientists published a letter to the leadership of the Ministry of Communications, Roskomnadzor and VGTRK with a request to “check for signs of extremism, inciting interethnic and interstate growth” all the programs of Dmitry Kiselev ” The collection of signatures under the letter “On the unacceptable statements of the host of“ Vesti of the week ”D. Kiselev is carried out on the website of the Interregional Society of Scientists (OHP).

On March 1, Yuri Gerchuk died (1926-2014), art critic and art critic, historian and theorist of graphics, author of books on the history of art. COLTA . RU represents to readers a previously not published interview, which Yuri Yakovlevich in 2011, on his 85th anniversary, was taken by his daughter Elena Gerchuk.

COLTA.RU continues the “response” heading: dear people, they answer a question that worried minds in recent days. On March 11 , an open letter of Russian culture figures appeared on the website of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. It was reported that the Nizhche who signed their support for the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and Crimea.

PermM holds the last exhibition in the building of the river station © Museum of Modern Art Permm On March 20, the Permm Museum of Contemporary Art in Perm will open an exhibition of artists of the street art “Transit zone”. It will be the last in the building of the river station, which the museum has been occupied since its founding in 2010. The exhibition will last until the end of May.

YouTube blocked the RT channel Today, March 17, the world's largest video hosting YouTube closed access to the content of the Russian State International TV channel RT. This was written on Twitter by the editor -in -chief of RT Margarita Simonyan: “Our channel on the yutub is blocked. Let me remind you that this is the most popular news channel on the world yutub with more than a billion views. ” “Two years ago, the day of March 18, we were already blocked.

The Russian Drama Theater of Lithuania canceled the tour in Russia The Russian Drama Theater of Lithuania canceled participation in the St. Petersburg Festival “Meetings in Russia” in response that the name of the director of the festival Sergey Shuba appears in the list of cultural figures supporting Russian politics in Ukraine.

At the Swissdocs festival in the documentary cinema center showed Alberto Venzago’s tape “Hergiev: a kind of madness”. - Where did you get the idea to make a film about Gergiev? I know that you have already made a tape about Simon Rattla, why now - such a candidate, and not, say, Maris Jansons? -I am actually from a musical family-my brother is a conductor, and we were all engaged in music as a child.

Alexander Vertinsky On March 21, in the framework of a three-day cabaret festival, a concert will be held at the Gogol Center-dedication to Alexander Vertinsky, in which bright Russian indie groups will take part. On the day of the 125th anniversary of the actor and singer, his songs will be performed by The Retuses , Artemiev , Naada, Sinecdokha Montok, Okudzhav and Tinavie .

The journalist is checked for extremism due to a joke about the entry of troops into the Vologda region © Facebook Roman Romanenko The Governor of the Vologda Oblast Oleg Kuvshinnikov demanded to check for extremism the joke of journalist Roman Romanenko, who asked Vladimir Putin to introduce troops to protect the Russian -language population of the Vologda region.

"Night in the theater" will be held in Moscow on March 26 More than 40 Moscow theaters on March 26 will take part in the citywide campaign "Night in the theater." This was reported by Interfax in the press service of the Moscow Department of Culture, noting that last year 17 Moscow theaters participated in the action, the number of visitors amounted to almost 4,000 people.

"Rain" will live © Twitter Natalia Senteeva The Director General of Rain, Natalya Sindeeva, said that the channel would not be closed and told about the new business strategy: Rain will reduce its own production and make a bet on Internet advertising, crowdfunding and Smart TV. In early March, the Director General of Rain announced that the channel, the broadcast of which, after a scandal with a survey of blockade Leningrad, was stopped by all the largest operators, could be closed in a month.

Architects ask Putin and Medvedev to save the Shukhov tower © Natalia Melikova / The Constructivist Project Architects, restorers, critics and scientists turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with an open letter, in which they are asked to prevent the dismantling and transfer of the Shukhov tower in Moscow. Colta.ru completely publishes the text of the open letter, those who wish can sign it in the comments.

ITAR-TASS will be renamed to TASS At a meeting of the Organizing Committee for the preparation for the celebration of the 110th anniversary of ITAR-TASS, the agency’s initiative was supported to return to the former name-TASS. This was reported by the Russian Newspaper . The historical predecessor of TASS was the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (St. Petersburg), which began to operate in September 1904.