The “Difference” prize has been awarded since 2013 for poetic books, “in which poetry becomes a study.” In 2014, Oleg Yuryev became the laureate with the book “About the Motherland: Poems, Hora and Bench 2010-2013” ​​(M.: Argo-Risk, 2013); The short list also included collections of Shamshad Abdullaev, Mikhail Eremin, Alexei Kolchev and Evgenia Suslova.

Ukrainian distributors refuse Russian films The film company "Central Partnership" (CPU) said that Ukrainian distributors and cinemas are refusing the rental of Russian cinema. “Inter-Film company [about 5% of the market.

The premiere of “drunk” - a performance in which almost all roles are played by the Moscow Artists, ”played on the stage of the Meyerhold Center, Black The Box of which, like a glove, the inclined plane of the artists of Maria and Alexei Tregubovs drawn by black and white squares.

An interesting question for the historian: when did the Kremlin decide to attach Crimea to the Russian Federation? Until the Crimean referendum, most observers believed that the Kremlin expands the Russian presence in the Crimea, not going to destroy the integrity of Ukraine. It was believed that V. Putin simply forms a “strong negotiation position” with the West. Or - avenge for Ukrainian society for Euromaidan, creating difficult problems for temporary authorities in Kyiv.

Beatrice (Sheilin Woodley) turned 16 years old. Time to take a test to decide on party affiliation. Where the heroine of the “saboteur” lives, in the post -apocalyptic Chicago, the society is divided into fractions. Good farmers - a friendliness faction, arrogant scientists - erudition, boorish truth -bearing - sincerity and elongated sore - fearlessness. Who to join, what to do?

To Karelia will come to the Rasmus, Noize MC and DDT festival © Evgenia Smirnova / "VKontakte" The Hedliners of the open-air festival “Air-2014”, which will be held from June 20 to 22 at the Sands airfield in Petrozavodsk, will be The Rasmus, Noize MC and DDT. Also at the festival will be “Knyazz”, “Naiv”, “Earr”, “Surganova and the Orchestra”, Louna, Igor Zastaev and many others. A full list of participants is given on the festival website .

In the play "Drunk" reduced the mat Almost all oscillatory vocabulary was removed from the text of the performance of Viktor Ryzhakov, “Drunk”, which is in the center of them. Meyerhold (zim) in Moscow. The actors replaced most of the obscene words with euphemisms and neologisms (for example, “consult”). “In our country, as always, the steam locomotive flee, ” the author of the play, playwright Ivan Zarypaev told Izvestia .

"Total dictation" is approaching On April 12, in 350 cities of the world there will be an action to check the literacy "Total Dictation". Actors, writers, musicians and other figures of Russian culture and art are dictated by the text of the writer Alexei Ivanov.

The last year is so often heard by the words that another, the last, line, that the image of a cockroach running around the engraving stands in front of his eyes. The dismissal of Grigory Revzin from the post of commissar of the Russian pavilion at the architectural Biennale in Venice is just one of these features that do not change the general picture, but on the contrary, complementing the drawing.

The report on the broadcasting of the Voice of America in Moscow has been terminated Today, April 9, the contract on broadcasting of the Voice of America in Moscow on long waves has been terminated. The corresponding notification was received by the Council of Management Management Board of Governors), Kommersant writes.

Concerts Trio Plastow From April 9 to April 19, a new Russian tour of Plastow will be held. Famous musicians from Geneva play minimalism, dub and post jazz. In the compositions of Plastow, you can find quotes from Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Berlioz, Mad Professor or Squarepusher , however, the classic composition of the trio - piano, bass and drums is free from any stylistic restrictions.

Talk to Martynov - to be at the end of the task book. The table of contents is written, the answers are already known - here they are, go through a comma. The famous composer and essayist, Martynov more often than others speaks of the end - the time of composers, great Russian literature, generally about the exhaustion of everything, and it is better to turn the page and not read this conversation, because living with such a feeling is anxious and unpleasant. Easy to become infected.

ADC "Memorial" was finally recognized as a "foreign agent" On Tuesday, April 8, the City Court of St. Petersburg rejected the appeal of the Anti -Discrimination Center "Memorial" to the decision of the lower court on the recognition of the organization by a foreign agent. “The trial was not objective,” Stefania Kulaev, the head of the ADC, quotes the Voice of America, quoted the head of the ADC “Memorial”.

Photos will forgive Internet pirates © Javier Aldana / Flickr Amendments to the "anti -pirate" legislation will not protect the rights to photography. This was announced at a closed meeting with copyright holders and representatives of the Internet business by the Vice Speaker of the State Duma Sergey Zheleznyak (United Russia), Izvestia writes. The anti -pirate law was adopted in June by the State Duma and entered into force in August 2013.

The winners of the Silver Camera contest were announced © Daria Nabieva Work Daria Nabieva from the series "Generals of concrete walls" On Tuesday, April 8, in the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, a ceremony of awarding the winners of the competition for the best photo report about Moscow “Silver Camera - 2013” ​​took place.