Italy continues protests against the award of Medinsky © La Stampa The Italian university community responded to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky Honorary Honorary Honorary Honorary Honorary Honorary of the University of Medin. The CHANGE.ORG website has published an appeal from Italian students demanding the abolition of awarding Medinsky title of honorary member of the University of Moskari.

Art critic Victor Misiano, who founded the famous publication about actual art-“art magazine”, who made many resonant exhibitions and was in the center of events, told us that for him it was the most important in the activities of Moscow artists in the 90s. -In the artistic life of Russia of the 90s there were many events. How much is possible to select the most significant? - I have to immediately fend your thesis about a large number of artistic events.

Russian premium life was enriched with a new plot. On May 14, the jury of the recently established literary prize named after Alexander Pyatigorsky decided not to award the award to any of the finalists.

When you pick up the recently released guide to the exposition of the Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean shaft dedicated to the XX century, you first do not quite understand what you are dealing with, and you are confused - akin to what you feel at a meeting with the half -published “encyclopedia of the Russian avant -garde” .

Russia, she is hope It is amazing me with what ease, it turns out, you can turn a huge piece of land, which is not somewhere in Asia, but in the most in Europe, into the combat zone with hostages, terrorists, torture and looting. We are accustomed to stereotype: terrorists occupy cities in Islamic countries, where the price of life is completely low, and a dispute between different currents of religion is enough to kindle the bloody bath. And here you have Donbass.

Kinogos Union requires the release of Oleg Sentsov © TSN The Union of Cinematographers and Professional Cinematographic Organizations and the Associations of Russia (Kinoil) appealed to the FSB demanding that Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov immediately release. On May 11, he was detained by the FSB in Simferopol and transported to Moscow. The director is accused of terrorism .

Dugino's manor faces destruction The descendants of I.E. Grabar and Meshcheryns made an appeal to the public, in which they call to save the Dugino estate near Moscow, who belonged to the artist N.V. Meshcheryin. The circulation reports that on May 3 it became known about the intentional arson of the main house of the estate. After the fire, the first two historical floors of the house, as well as the park’s alley and the famous “circle”, from which a picturesque view of the surroundings opens.

Our project "Cinema Believe" continues. This time we will show a test from films that are devoted to one of the most acute problems of the Russian (and not only) modernity - labor migration. As the events of the last week in Pushkin show, the state of this problem, about which Kolta wrote a lot , is far from permission or well -being. So we will talk about it - and watch about this movie!

Political scientist Maxim Shevchenko, in the interval of television programs, asks the question to the opponents: "What kind of religion are you?" I answer that his question is incorrect, because it concerns the sphere of intimate. “What is intimate here? Why can't you answer? It’s very simple, ”he wonders. - So I can say about myself: I am Orthodox. I do not hide it. Why can't you answer? " Lacan wrote: who asks questions, is the owner of the discourse.

Evgenia Volunkova: "The privileges of those who remained in Russia" The editor -in -chief of “such cases” on how to beat sour cream into oil, write about people, regardless of their mistakes, fight for the “deep” reader and work where it is very difficult, but necessary 12 July 2023 9250 Meeting on the sling (first three hours) The five -hour conversation of Elena Kovalskaya, Nadia Plungan, Yuri Saprykin and Alexander Ivanov about why today it is necessary to be in Russia.

In St. Petersburg, an evening of memory of Alexei Parshchikov will be held © Yuri Vitriol On May 24, on the new stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, an evening will be held dedicated to the memory of the poet Alexei Parshchikov (1954–2009), which would have turned 60 on this day.

Kandinsky Award announced a new nomination Since 2014, to the two existing nominations of the Kandinsky Prize, the “Project of the Year” and “Young artist. The project of the year ”, a new one will be added -“ Scientific work. History and theory of contemporary art. " The prize in the new nomination will be the publication of the scientific work of the BREUS publishing program in Russian or English (if the work has already been published in Russian).

Beat Film Festival announced the participants of the TALKS program The festival of new documentary movie about music Beat Film Festival, which will be held in Moscow from May 27 to June 8, announced the composition of the TALKS program participants - a series of talk about the future of documentary cinema. This year it is devoted to how documentary cinema interacts with adjacent areas - from contemporary art and photographs to advertising production.

There is a walking wisdom that there are problems with philosophy in Russia. Here is the prize to them. Alexander Pyatigorsky for the best “philosophical composition” this year was not handed to anyone. Presumably, with philosophy in the Fatherland, really something is wrong. I worked in the Pyatigorsky Expert Council, and this experience convinced me that Russia really has serious problems, but only they have no relation to philosophy.

10:30. Arrival The exit to the city is now immediately from the passenger compartment: the booths in which the border guards used to sit are empty. - Where to find a working ATM? - I ask at the stop. “Nowhere,” the Simferopol residents look at me in surprise, “you came to the Crimea.” I have an iron nickle: the minibus driver is having fun and allows you to get to the railway station. I continue the path from the station on foot. Ten minutes - and I am on the embankment of Salgira.