The Ministry of Defense supported the idea of ​​a day of polite people The Russian Ministry of Defense positively took the proposal to make on October 7 in the afternoon devoted to people in military equipment without identification marks, the control of which in the spring of this year was a referendum in the Crimea.

This is not the first time we have been offering our readers the opportunity, frankly, not frequent - over a cup of tea in one of the Moscow cafes to chat about life, politics, art, and about anything with beautiful, famous, smart and influential people of this city. This circle every time is small, at five people, so it’s nice to talk, tested by experience. This time, in support of the colts, a brilliant company agreed to drink tea with our readers. Thank you very much!

The local historian and writer Yuri Pirutko died Today, October 3, in St. Petersburg at the age of 68, the local historian and writer Yuri Pyrythko, head of the memorial sculpture of the State Museum of City Sculpture, died. This was reported to Fontanka.ru in the State Museum of the City Sculpture of St. Petersburg. “His departure is a huge loss for our museum and all cultural Petersburg,” the museum added.

“A genius is a black man who dreams of snow,” Vladimir Nabokov believed. The bass player and singer Richard Boná -or Richard Bohn, as we call him in the American way, is the genius of modern improvisational music. A native of Cameroon, a talented self -taught, he plays an incredibly bright and attractive mixture of jazz, folk and traditional African music.

"New Opera" will present the international production "Figaro's Wedding" © "New Opera" Stage Group of the play "Figaro Wedding" October 7, 8 and 9 at the Moscow Theater "New Opera" them. E.V. Kolobova will be pre-shows of the Russian-German production of the opera of Mozart “The Figaro Wedding”. Moscow director Alexei Weiro and his German colleagues - the scenographer Ulrika Yokhum, costume artist Jan Maier, the artist of the light of Hannes Zesemann and Hans Fruundt worked on the performance .

JagerMeister Indie Awards is the first award of relevant music in Russia, created in the image and likeness of the Australian Jagermeister Indie Awards , which has been held in Melbourne for almost ten years. JagerMeister decided to identify and award the main Russian indie musicians of 2014.

- "Bitter!" was a rather unusual film. We will be frank: all or almost everything was delighted with the picture. Both spectators and criticism. -Well, at first the film caused certain disputes. But mostly yes, people really liked it. I can say about my feelings. When we went to the premiere (thinks) ... When we shot, I understood that something was just so whole and interesting. That this is not just some kind of booth, but exactly ... and good! That's the most attractive!

The season of Stanislavsky is opening © Lift Festival Scene from the play "Vanilla Dream" Today, October 3, the performance of the Japanese playwright and director of Tosiki Okada in Moscow opens the X International Theater Festival “Stanislavsky season”.

A monument to Vakhtangov will appear in Moscow On October 13, a monument to the theater actor, director and teacher Evgeny Vakhtangov (1883-1922), and the founder of the famous Vakhtangov school will be opened in the Schwukin School in the center of Moscow.

The poet Alexander Altshuler died From the archive of Galina Blakh On Thursday, October 2, poet Alexander Altshuler died in Jerusalem at the age of 76. Alexander Borisovich Altshuler was born in 1938 in Leningrad, was engaged in the poetic studio of the Palace of Pioneers, and then in the literary studio of the Pedagogical Institute. He graduated from the Technological Institute. The Lensoveta, where he met with Evgeny Rhine, Dmitry Bobyshev and Anatoly Naiman.

A virtual library opened in the Moscow metro About 30 posters with QR codes leading to a special portal appeared at the Moscow metro stations, where you can read or download dozens of works of Russian literature. According to M24.ru , the first deputy head of the subway Yuri Degtyarev, the library was launched in test mode and will work completely by mid -October.

The term “indie-music”, designating musicians existing regardless of large labels (mains) and their units, arose and became widespread in the late seventies, but independent musicians and record-labels seemed to exist from the very beginning of the history of recording. Yegor Antoshchenko tried to figure out what was happening with independent music in the past half a century.

Alvisa Hermanis will not be allowed to Russia © Ieva Lūka / Leta Director of the Bureau of Protection of the Constitution of Latvia, Janis Mayisitis, deputy of the Sejm Andreis Yudins and Theater Director Alvis Hermanis are included in the “black list”. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the BNS Latvian information agency. The press secretary of the Latvian Foreign Ministry, Karlis Eichenbaums, confirmed the agency that Russia entered the “black list” of several citizens of Latvia.

"Poems about me" in "House 12" The Moscow Club “House 12” with the support of Corpus, COLTA.RU website and the interview magazine begins a series of literary evenings “Poems about me”. The program is dedicated to the writer and journalist Peter Weil, who would have turned 65 this year. “Poems about me” is the name of his book, which included 55 most important poems of the twentieth century for him and thoughts about them.