The founder of VKontakte refused to close the group of Navalny Pavel Durov, the founder and general director of the largest Russian social network VKontakte, refused to close the Rospil -Corruption war - Alexey Navalny, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office.

Just the Cannes Festival has announced the program of the main competition. Russian cinema will be represented by Leviathan Andrei Zvyagintsev, the story of a hopeless confrontation between a person with a state machine.

My country! You proved both to me and to everyone that your spirit is alive, when, having sensed the sting in the body, you swept away, groaned, all - frenzy, all - impulse! Valery Bryusov The poem of Khodasevich “Monkey” of 1919 is one of the most underestimated in Russian poetry. Few, when reading, a lump will not approach the throat.

An exhibition of post -war art Germany will be held in Moscow © Bernd Borchardt / Erbengemeinschaft Arno Fischer Arno Fisher. East Berlin.

April 24 at the Central City Public Library named after V.V. Mayakovsky St. Petersburg will open the anniversary exhibition "Switzerland and Russia: 200 years of diplomatic relations." The Socructor of the project Elena Naumova told Olga Mamaeva about what diplomacy with a human face is and for which the Swiss are grateful to Russia. - What will the audience see at your exhibition? - First of all, the documents stored in the Swiss and Russian archives.

Putin promises to help rain Today, April 17, President Vladimir Putin, after a direct line, told reporters that he was ready to save the rain television channel from excessive attention of the regulatory authorities that interfere with his work.

The capital Shakespearean season is approaching its logical climax: on April 21, 22 and 23, the theater of nations, together with the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, will celebrate the 450th anniversary of Bard with a collective introduction-the Shakespeare project. Labyrinth ”gathered the whole color of the new Russian theater, from Dmitry Volkostroelov and Yuri Kvyatkovsky to Liquid Theatre and Dialogue Dance.

Zvyagintsev film - in the competition program of the Cannes Festival © Sky24.ru Andrei Zvyagintsev’s social drama “Leviathan” was included in the main competitive program of the 67th International Cannes Film Festival, announced today, April 17. The plot of Leviathan is based on the real story that occurred in the USA, but the action was transferred to Russia.

The case of Pavlensky is closed The criminal case against the actor-acting artist Pyotr Pavlensky, instituted after the rally on Red Square in Moscow in November 2013, was terminated due to the lack of corpus delicti. “The investigation came to the conclusion that in the actions of my client there are no extremist motive, and in general any corpus delicti. The case has been terminated, ” ITAR-TASS lawyer Ramil Akhmetgaliev told ITAR-TASS.

On April 25, one of the most famous Russian singers in the West will represent the WORLD MUSIC - a new EP of six songs, published on a vinyl record that precedes the appearance of a long -awaited double album planned in the fall.

The open -air film festival will be held in Moscow © CoolConnections From April 30 to September 30, the Summer Times 2014 film festival will be held in Moscow parks. Its platforms will be a summer cinema in the Museon Arts Park and a film site in the Hermitage Garden. All films will be shown in the original language with Russian subtitles.

On the eve of two thousand thirteenth years, Senator Sergey Lisovsky jumped to my studio of the “rain” studio to comment on the fresh anti -Sirot law by the rider of the apocalypse. At the end of the conversation, he penetratedly looked into my eyes and summed up: “You simply do not know what love is.” At this moment, a sluggish thought of a possible departure turned into a panic desire to run from this house intolerance where the eyes look. After the holidays, I already called the realtor.

DDT will present a new album in Moscow in the summer The DDT group announced the presentation of the new album “Transparent” - it will take place on June 18 at the Green Theater in Moscow. This was reported on the official DDT website . “Transparent” will be the first DDT studio album since 2011, when the “Other/PS” disc was released. In March, the leader of DDT Bri Shevchuk told our radio that there will be 14 songs on the album. “He will be completely different. It will be guitar, melodic.

The Sinema Belief project, which for almost six months has been making COLTA.RU, this time was enriched with absolute premiere. And we are very proud and satisfied with this! April 23 at 19:30 in Fassbinder Cinema Bar on Artplay (Nizhnya Syromyatniki St., 10, p. 9), in the premises of the Kobum cafe, the premiere of the documentary “Children 404” directors of Askold Kurov (“Winter, Leave”, “Leninland”) and Pavel Loparev.