Petersburgers are invited to participate in the performance © BDT / YouTube Each Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from July 19 to September 14, residents of St. Petersburg will be able to take part in the Permote Petersburg play, prepared by the BDT named after G.A. Tovstonogov, together with the German theater company Rimini Protokoll.

Sergey Egorovich Sorokin - the chairman of the antimilitarian radical association of Russia, a member of the Moscow Helsinki group - recalled the history of the Napoleonic, Hitler, Vietnamese and Chechen wars and explained why modern Russia did not need an army, which took place on June 24 in the Sakharov Center. Published with abbreviations. In the nineties, I participated in some television programs: both on Channel One and the second, and now I have been banned for 13 years.

Geographical names, being primarily a tool for navigation, take a long time in memory. You can still hear from the mouth of representatives of older generations: Gorky Street, Nogin Square, the city of Zhdanov and much more.

Forty years ago, a book was published in Russian, which gave the name the most terrible era in the history of Russia for the entire time of its existence. The weighty “brick” was dressed in an elegant silver-gray bag. On its front side, the author’s name was indicated in large black letters: Robert Conquest. Below - large raspberry - the name: Big terror. Despite the fact that before that Robert Conquest was not published in Russian, his name in the “most reading country in the world” was known.

The final essay will return in 2015 Since 2015, graduates of Russian schools will again write a final essay, canceled in 2009 in connection with the introduction of a compulsory exam in the Russian language. The details of the final test determined the meeting of the newly created council on the issues of the final essay in the final class, headed by the President of the Russian Public Fund Alexander Solzhenitsyn Natalia Solzhenitsyna, reports Echo of Moscow .

Russian assets of Sanoma interested the investor of "rain" © "Vedomosti" Rain Investor Alexander Vinokurov and the shareholder of the QIWI payment system Boris Kim submitted a joint proposal to buy Russian assets of the Finnish media holding Sanoma - newspapers "Vedomosti" and the journal business. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to a source familiar with the course of collecting applications.

The day of mourning has been announced in Moscow Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced on July 16 in the afternoon of mourning for those who died in a disaster in the Moscow metro. Culture institutions are proposed to cancel entertainment events on the day of mourning. On the morning of July 15, a large accident occurred between the stations "Victory Park" and "Slavyansky Boulevard" of the blue branch of the Moscow metro, three wagons came off the rails.

The Duma promises to cancel the obligatory rental certificates © Channel One In the fall, perhaps, the law on the ban on obscene vocabulary in the cinema, theater, literature and concerts will be softened - the State Duma Committee on Culture is going to revise the clause on mandatory rental certificates for all films. “In September, when the deputies leave the vacation, we will definitely raise this issue at a meeting of the culture committee.

DJ Sniff, in the world of Takuro Mizuta Lippit, plays free-jazz plates at his concerts, and its partners often become giants of improvisation like Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide or Erikm. In an interview with COLTA. RU he talked about why computer software is not replacing electronic tools and why DJs should be considered musicians. -Tell us how you began to use free-jazz records-this is still not the most obvious choice for DJ.

Mariinka closes the season with a new production of "War and Peace" The last premiere of the Mariinsky Theater season, July 15, will be the opera Prokofiev “War and Peace” in the production of director Graham Vika and artist Paul Brown, musical leader and conductor - Valery Gergiev.

The composition of multi -colored spots on a blue background is not another example of painting of action, inspired by the masters of abstract expressionism, and its creator is by no means looking for emancipation, spraying paint in a spontaneous act of creativity. Behind the decorative picture-the work from the series “Under the Influence” , which was put up for the joint bidding of Phillips and the Paddle8 online auction at the end of June, the painstaking statistical work lies.

Monument to soldiers of the First World War will be erected in Moscow Manifestation on the day of the declaration of the war of Germany. Petersburg, August 2, 1914 In December, on the Frunze Embankment in the center of Moscow, the Ministry of Defense, together with the Grekov artists studio, will open a sculptural composition in honor of Russian soldiers of the First World War. This was announced today, July 15, by the state secretary-Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Pankov. Passes Interfax .