Benedict Sarnov died © DemSet.org On Sunday, April 20, in Moscow, at the age of 87, literary critic and literary critic Benedict Sarnov died. About ITAR-TASS, his son, Felix Sarnov, reported. Benedict Sarnov was born in Moscow in 1927, in 1951 he graduated from the Literary Institute. He worked in the journal Pioneer, Literary Newspaper. In the 1970s, together with Stanislav Rassadin, he was the author of popular children's literary radio programs “in the country of literary heroes”.

- Is the third volume the end of completion? - The work goes and is gradually approaching the end, in the fall we will publish the third volume. In quotation marks are “third”, because there will actually be two. - Two third? - It's like a snowball that flies and becomes more and more as they move. We stated that this encyclopedia in three volumes, so we cannot say that we have four volumes. There will be the third volume, the first book and the second book.

This year, on the occasion of her 20th anniversary, the “mask” was very tried that its hot spots become not only moments of opening the envelopes. And she did it. About the luxurious inversion in the theater space invented by the artist Zinovy ​​Margolin, it is no longer worth repeating - the whole Facebook that night turned into an endless string of tiers with the royal lodge in the middle, shot from the scene of the large, where the audience was launched.

The GQ magazine will have a new editor © Condé Nast Mikhail Idov leaves Condé Nast Russia and will become the creative director of the Art Picture group of companies. The position of chief editor of GQ magazine will be occupied by a journalist and screenwriter Kim Belov. This was reported by the GQ website. Writer and journalist Mikhail Idov headed GQ since January 2012.

Our university years-the beginning of the eighties-coincided with the Latin American boom, and among classmates-philologists there was a joke: "Who do you love more, Borges or Cortasara?" - "Markes!" The names of the “Holy Trinity” could change places, but the author of the “hundred years of loneliness” most often found himself not in the question, but in the answer.

The Higher National Theater Award celebrated the twenty-anniversary of this spring, and it is impossible to start talking about the results of the anniversary contest without remembering what the Golden Mask has become for Russia over the years: from the very beginning, it was conceived as something more than the trivial fair of the workshop Tchezlavia, it stubbornly confirmed its deserved status of one of the main (certainly the most authoritative) season) domestic cultural institutions.

Pavel Durov was fired from VKontakte Today, April 21, the powers of the general director of the VKontakte social network Pavel Durov have been terminated. This was told by RBC by the executive director of the social network Dmitry Sergeev. The founder and general director of VKontakte wrote a departure statement on March 21, on April 1, he announced this on his page, but on April 3, he said that it was an Armelian joke.

Singer Tati has just released a debut album, but she is far from a beginner in the domestic hip-hop. Her light breathing is well familiar to those who listen to rap in Russian. Tati has been written from the age of 16, and now she is 24. Tati is a combat unit of the Gazagolder Laubla studio. Not a single album of Vasily Vakulenko - from Basta to the Stereo Brothers - does not do without her sonorous voice.

Goethe Institute will choose the best teachers of the German language On the eve of the year of the German language and literature, Goethe -Institute in Moscow announces the contest "Best Teacher / Teacher of the German Language of Russia - 2014".

HRC criticized the laws on the regulation of the Internet Today, April 21, according to the results of the meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (STC), its members said that the initiatives of the State Duma deputies in the field of Internet regulation do not comply with the current rule of law.

"Big Book" announced Long List The “long list” of the ninth season of the National Literary Prize “Big Book” included 29 works. Long list "Big Book" of the 2013/14 season published on the Prize website: Svetlana Aleksievich - “Time of the second hand”; Yuri Arabov - “Collision with a butterfly”; Vladimir Berezin - "Shklovsky"; Yuri Buida - “poison and honey”; Ksenia Buke - “Freedom” “Freedom” ”; Alexander Grigorenko - "Ilget"; Natalia Gromova - “Key.

The Russian program in Cannes is presented Today, April 21, a press conference of the official Russian delegation at the Cannes festival took place in Moscow. It was attended by the head of Roskino Ekaterina Mcturidze, producer selected in the main contest of Leviathan Andrei Zvyagintseva Alexander Rodnyansky, Public Relations Director Peter Shepotinnik and producers of short films selected by Kann, Maria Ivanova and Nasib Piriev, Variety Russia reports.

The premiere of the film "Children 404" will be held on this environment - within the framework of the Sinma Belief project. Our partner helps us in this show - the Reality project. You can find out how to get to the premiere, you can by this link . - You both shot documentaries about the cult of Lenin, Pavel is engaged in animation, Askold is the co -author of the film “Winter, leave!”. How did you decide to make a film about teenagers-hei? Pavel Loparev: I began to think about this year ago.

Prince has reconciled with Warner Pop star Prince signed a large contract with Warner Bros. Records, from cooperation with whom he refused 20 years ago. In the early 1990s, Prince Radicalco changed his image and music, and also changed his stage pseudonym to an unpronounceable symbol that combines symbols of male and female principles. The subsequent sharp drop in album sales led to the lawsuit and the break with Warner Bros. Records .

Application for march on May 6 © "Rain" The opposition submitted to the Moscow City Hall an application for a demonstration and rally on May 6 in support of Bolotnaya prisoners. According to Radio Liberty , first there will be a demonstration on Bolshaya Yakimanka and Big Polyanka, and then a rally on Bolotnaya Square.