A year ago, there were no regional galleries specializing in except at exhibitions of honey - in their place the association of the “ Exhibition Halls of Moscow ” appeared. The modernity overtook Moscow district galleries, most of which until recently suffered greatly from cultural anemia, suddenly.

Donatas Banionis died © šarūnas mažeika / delfi Today, September 4, in Vilnius at the age of 90, the Lithuanian actor and theater director Donatas Banionis died. According to Delfi.lt with reference to the actor’s family, he had a stroke a few days ago, he died in the hospital. Donatas Banionis was born in 1924 in Kaunas, studied at a craft school, and at the same time was engaged in drama circle.

Alekhina and Tolokonnikov launched a human rights portal The portal "Mediazone" dedicated to the problems of Russian justice and the system of execution of sentences earned. The project was launched by the human rights organization "Zone of Law", founded by Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. According to Interfax Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, an application for registration of the project as the media has already been submitted to Roskomnadzor.

Culture figures defended the ex-director of the Altai Youth Theater © Site in defense of Tatyana Fedorovna Kozitsyna Valery Zolotukhin and Tatyana Kozitsyna 640 actors, directors, critics, theater studies, dramaturs and other cultural figures signed the appeal in defense of Tatyana Kozitsyna, who worked for the 16th years of the Altai State Youth Theater in Barnaul, which is being persecuted by the Altai Territory.

“We are cool people! Well, even if not cool, then very good! " Danil Fayzov Two vigorous people-people of the past era, with a jumping gait, are rapidly rushing along Sobyaninskaya Moscow from a fashionable shop to the fashionable shop, from the ealni to the unplex, then over the sidewalks, which did not really have time to put tiles on, suddenly stop somewhere, look around the handful of people and pronounce: “Yes. Here we drank and sold books.

VKontakte may go under Mail.Ru control Negotiations are nearing completion, as a result of which the largest Russian social network VKontakte will fully be controlled by Mail.ru Group. According to Vedomosti , Mail.ru Group , controlled by USM Holding, Alisher Usmanov, is negotiating about the terms of redemption of 48% of the share of LLC “In contact” by the UCP Foundation Ilya Shcherbovich. According to an informed source, the transaction may occur within a few weeks.

Crimea will buy a Yalta film studio as a strategic object © Meest-online.com The Council of Ministers of Crimea decided to transfer to state property of the Yalta film studio, applying a new regional law on the forced redemption of strategic objects. As the Minister of Culture of the Republic Arina Novoselskaya said at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, at one time property belonging to the film studio was sold in private hands for 1.3 million hryvnias.

On two screens - two indecent open sunset, and then Petersburg from a bird's eye view. Spectators lurk in the foliage - in tents placed in a circle, which creates the sudden effect of the Grushinsky festival. A tears run into an experimental theater eye-uninvited, all the more so since this is the new performance of Dmitry “I-Lyub-Jona-Kage” by Paul “I-no-no-narrativ” Perezhko.

A monument to Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko was erected in Moscow © Channel One On Wednesday, September 3, in the center of Moscow, the opening ceremony of the monument to the founders of the Moscow Art Theater, Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, took place. The monument is located in Kamermegersky Lane, before the entrance to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, ITAR-TASS reports. It is a two -figure composition with a stele installed on the pedestal.

School diaries with Hitler will be checked for extremism The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region checks information about the distribution of school diaries with the photograph of Adolf Hitler and his brief biographical certificate. On September 2, the Yekaterinburg site E1 announced a diary with Hitler. According to the publication, the circulation of the diary was printed by the Smolensk printing plant by order of the Higher School Publishing House.

. . . British Leo Lake Records celebrates the 35th anniversary of the traveling festival, which will travel to seven cities of Russia from September 5 to 19. Today, in the catalog of a company founded by the Soviet emigrant Leo Feigin, already about a thousand albums. Choose ten from them that you need to listen, not to mention the ten best, is an impossible task, and it is hardly correct.

Forbes.ru was left without chef Alexander Bogomolov left the post of chief editor of the site Forbes.ru. The new chief editor will be appointed in two weeks.