The new vivid acquisition of the recently ended Diaghilev festival in Perm was the Patricia of Kopachinskaya, the violinist of Moldavian origin, European training, with a brilliant career, emphasized by non -standard thinking and an incredibly wide repertoire in which new music occupies a very noticeable part. In Perm, she played a solo concert with pianist Ollie Mustonen, took part in the night violin Gala, and also performed the third symphony of Malera as part of the festival orchestra.

Venediktov is going to redeem Echo Moskvy from Gazprom © Channel One The minority shareholders of Echo of Moscow, including the editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov, will send Gazprom-Media a proposal for the redemption of 66.6% of the radio station. Minority shareholders aggregally own about 33.3% of the Echo of Moscow. According to ITAR-TASS Venediktov himself, he plans to formulate the proposal before the meeting of the shareholders of Echo of Moscow.

Troitsky denied information about his departure to Estonia © All Over Press Musical critic Artemy Troitsky said he was not going to leave Russia. He reported this to Lente.ru . According to Troitsky, the news of his departure for permanent residence in Estonia was a great surprise for him. Earlier on Friday, the Estonian newspaper Eesti Paevaleht wrote that Artemy Troitsky decided to move with his family to Estonia for political reasons.

The poet Maxim Amelin was detained in Moscow © Rodrigo Fernandez / Wikimedia Commons Today, July 4, in the center of Moscow, the police detained the poet Maxim Amelin. As Amelin himself told Colta.ru, he was detained at the Arbat metro station for smoking in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the subway. Now the detainee is in the Arbat police department, he faces an arrest for up to 15 days.

The Fundamentals of State Cultural Policy will be completed by November © Press Service of the President of Russia The developers of the project “Fundamentals of the State Cultural Policy” will present by the end of October his updated version to the President of the Russian Federation. About this today, July 4, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky told reporters, RIA Novosti reports.

On July 4, the China - Town - Cafe club will perform Alexei Vishnya, who recorded the majority of the Kino Group albums, a cult singer -Autsider, the creator of the satirical project Politics, which used Russian politicians, and a blogger . On the eve of the concert, he told Colta . Ru About whether the 1980s are returning now and why is political technology not so funny. - How did it happen that you have not performed in Moscow for thirty years? - And I never performed in Moscow at all.

The Kinks will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the re-release of the catalog On the fiftieth anniversary of The British group The Kinks will be reprinted her records of 1964-1970. The first on August 18 will be the album “Lola Versus Powerman and the MoneyGoround, Part One” (1970). The double-disc set will include mono- and stereomixes, unrelated material, alternative versions of songs and all kinds of bonus tracks. Most of the records date back to 1970-1971.

The ban on the storage of personal data abroad passed the Duma Today, July 4, the State Duma adopted in the second and third reading a bill obliging foreign companies owning, including postal services, social networks and search engines, from September 1, 2016 to place personal data of Russian users exclusively in the Russian Federation.

Artemy Troitsky left Russia © Tanel Meos / Eesti Paevaleht Russian music critic and journalist Artemy Troitsky emigrated to Estonia. He made such a decision, disagreing with the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin against Ukraine. About this today, July 4, writes the Estonian newspaper Eesti Paevaleht , reports RBC .

The tenth "manifesto" started. Now, if something extraordinary does not happen, for another four months it will be possible to see the works of Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Boyce, Marlene Dumas, Wolfgang Tilmans, Elena Kovylina, other stars and not very in the main headquarters, the Winter Palace and throughout St. Petersburg. But this is so, in general. Ekaterina Dyzhot told in sufficient detail about the context in which the organizers and participants of the European Biennale.

Naum Kleiman will remain the director of the Museum of Cinema Naum Kleiman will retain the position of director of the State Central Museum of Cinema: the Ministry of Culture did not find a decent candidate in his place. “So far, in addition to Naum Ikhilievich, the leadership of the Ministry of Culture does not see anyone in the place of the director,” a source close to the leadership of the Ministry of Culture told Interfax, Gazeta.ru reports.

The artist Oleg Petrenko died © Facebook Oleg Petrenko Today, July 4, after a long illness, the artist Oleg Petrenko (Perez), one of the founders of the famous conceptualist group “Peppers” died. It is reported by Arthid . Oleg Petrenko was born in 1965 in Odessa, debuted on the Moscow Art scene in 1984 at the Moscow -Odessa exhibition in the Aptart gallery. From 1985 to 1999 he worked with the artist Lyudmila Skripkina as part of the Peppers group.

Last spring, Sundance TV , who had not done the series before, shot a mighty duplet: in March there was a mini-series Jane Campion “Top of the Lake” , in April- “RECTIFY” (“Fix errors”), which recently returned on the second season. That shot fell exactly into the funnel of the author’s cinema - both of the series were applauded in the halls of Berlinale and Sandens. It turned out that festival indie drama can exist without losses in a serial format.

Students Marina Razbuzhkina will boycott festivals Students and graduates of the School of Documentary Cinema and Theater Marina Razbuzhkina and Mikhail Ugarov decided to refuse to participate in Russian festivals, where a rental certificate for films created without state support was required. Marina Razbuzhkina reported this on her Facebook.

The portal "Cultural Dialog" has opened He earned the Internet portal “Cultural Dialog” (Cultdialog.org), which is the purpose of which is to become a platform for the conversation of representatives of the Civil Society of Russia and Ukraine. On April 24–25, 2014, the Congress “Russia-Ukraine: Dialogue” was held in Kyiv, the initiators of which were the Russian PEN Center, the Mikhail Khodorkovsky movement and “Open Russia” movement and “Open Russia”.