The Hermitage opens the imperial arena for the public © State Hermitage V.D. Star, according to the project of L. Klence. Show-hill for the Camia Hall. Petersburg, 1850–1852 Today, December 5, the State Hermitage opens in the building of the former imperial arena three exhibitions dedicated to the history of the museum, Old Russian and British art.

In the Publishing House of Kommersant, the general director was replaced © Pubes "Kommersant" The Board of Directors of the Publishing House "Kommersant" appointed the new general director of ID Maria Komarova, who served as the Vice President of Kommersant and the chief editor of the Kommersant FM radio station.

Desert huge rooms, echoing acoustics, crooks the theorba, picks up a baroque guitar, assentes the cellon, a bent zinc withdraws melodies of the 16th century with its pure boyish timbre, a voiced sakbut, the predecessor of a thrombone join it, and together two winds are carried under the dome; Little Viola, the great -grandmother of the violin, is spinning with the performer holding it in their hands, the singers tap with heels and castenets, and dance shock.

Shvydka headed the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Bolshoi Theater © TV channel "Culture" On Thursday, December 4, at a meeting of the Bolshoi Bolshoi Theater, the new chairman of his executive committee was elected. He became the presidential special representative for international cultural cooperation, ex-minister of culture Mikhail Shvydka. He replaced Alexander Budberg in this post, the press center of the Bolshoi Theater reports.

Gennady Polok died © TV channel "Culture" Today, December 5, at the age of 84, film director Gennady Polok died. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. Gennady Ivanovich Polok was born in 1930 in Samara, in 1948-1950 he studied at the acting department of the Higher Theater School named after M.S.

The public dialogue of Galina Timchenko, the editor -in -chief of the Medusa portal, and journalist Pavel Sheremet, who took place in the “open library” at the end of September , went far beyond the given topic (“Russian journalism in exile”). With the resolution of the project ideologist Nikolai Solodnikova COLTA . Ru publishes the most interesting fragments of this conversation. Nikolai Solodnikov: Let's start with what: what is Russian journalism in exile?

Applicants for support for the "Wednesday" Foundation were announced The expert council of the Russian Media Support Fund was determined by the short list of publications applying for financial support from the Fund in 2014. The expert council of the Foundation includes media professionals, shareholders, employees, functionaries, officials, teachers, public activists sharing the mission of the fund and the principles of responsible journalism.

20 years ago, December 11, 1994, the entry of troops began to the Chechen Republic. There was a terrible war that broke thousands of lives, once again dividing the history of Russia into “before” and “after”. To understand this war and leave it in the past, it must be talked about. And first of all, veterans should speak. Edik. There are many of them Before our conversation, Edik takes a cigarette out of the pack and goes to the landing.

Every fifth cinema in Russia has become unprofitable The sixth month is reduced by the ruble revenue of Russian cinemas. The fall of the national currency in combination with the growth of rent in shopping centers made a fifth of cinemas unprofitable. This was reported by RBC with reference to representatives of Russian filming.

"Good scenarios for Russia" are accepted until January 15 © Alexey Zlygostev / “Museums of the World” A desk in the Literary and Memorial Museum F.M. Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg The jury of the literary contest “Good scenarios for Russia” announced the extension of the time for receiving texts until January 15, 2015, as well as the removal of restrictions on the volume of texts and their format. Competition work can be sent to the goodscript.culturalance@gmail.com .

The Nazis were the first to start a state campaign to combat smoking, motivating it with concern for the health of the people - although from the moment when Columbus’s ships brought tobacco to Europe, and before Hitler came to power more than 400 years. Why did no one catch up before? Just smoking really massively started only by 1920, and all due to the fact that tobacco changed the package.

Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky (born March 5, 1951, Odessa) - Russian political scientist and political strategist. In 1968 he entered the History Faculty of Odessa University, which he graduated in 1973. In 1974, for the distribution of the book of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Gulag Archipelago came into the view of the KGB and lost his job, after which he moved to Moscow, where since 1977 he worked as a carrier, a malarm and a forest room.

The Internet in Russia decreases the faster in the world According to the report “Freedom on the network - 2014” by the non -profit organization Freedom House, over the past five years, Russia has demonstrated the fastest - along with Turkey - a decrease in the indicator of Internet freedom among 65 countries of the world. Russia, as a year earlier, is recognized as a “partially free country,” reports Rublackist.net .