Police turned off Pirate Bay © DPA The world's largest pirate website Pirate Bay is disabled. Stockholm police confiscated servers with the Pirate Bay database on the complaint of Rights Alliance, struggling on the Internet. Thus, for the first time in the last seven years, a pirate site, repeatedly exposed to blocking, is completely disconnected from the network, BBC reports. “The police held a raid to premises with servers in Stockholm due to copyright violations.

We remind you that this Sunday at 13:45 in the Horizon cinema in the framework of our project “Cinema Belief” we will watch a film about the very beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, about the events that began a year ago and turned the world over. The film is called "Euromaidan. Black installation. " You can still get to it here .

Yuri Pogrebnichko this year celebrated his 75th anniversary, and his theater “near” turned 25 years old. The burbnychko does not like to give an interview - or rather, he does not like to formulate anything, because the definitions are coarsed, destroying an important state of uncertainty for him, which is the main thing, a living and elusive creature of the matter.

Pavel Pepperstein received the Kandinsky Prize © Pavel Pepperstein / Kandinsky Award Pavel Pepperstein. Work from the “Holy Politics” project “Inspired by Oscar Kokoshka and Soviet political caricature, the artist writes his heroes, who, as if revived metaphors, are intertwined with texts and are a continuation of each other” (from the annotation on the Kandinsky Prize) Today, December 11, Kandinsky Award was awarded in Moscow.

... Here, let's say, when the future architect T. was little, dad led him to walk along one of the central streets. And suddenly the architect T. sees a black man march towards him. It goes a drill step, although dressed - well, how then everyone was dressed then. And after him two more black people follow a drill, a little to the right and a little to the left. And it is felt that they are more than one kilometer. And after them there are three more.

Leviathan is nominated for the Golden Globe © NBC Today, December 11, in Los Angeles, nominees for the 2015 Golden Globe Association of the Foreign Golden Golden Golden Association were announced in Los Angeles. In the category “Best Foreign Language Film”, the film “Levifan” by Andrei Zvyagintsev is nominated for the award.

The Ministry of Culture clarified the statement of Medinsky about the "Rashka-Khiznishka" Today, December 11, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation spread a letter explaining the statement of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky that the state would not give money to the one who makes a movie on the principle of "Rashka-Rydshka". " The minister made this statement at a meeting with readers in the bookstore bookstore on the final day of the St. Petersburg Cultural Forum.

In early December, Telltale Games , an analogue of the HBO channel in the gaming industry, released the Game of Thrones - Episode One: Iron from Ice . The interactive series is made according to the same recipe as “The Walking Dead: The Game” . The game component is still minimized: there is no puzzle, no interaction with objects, nor freedom of movement. Combat mechanics are simplified - it only needs to be pressed from the user that press the necessary buttons in time.

Instagram overtook Twitter by the number of users © colta.ru The social network Instagram has registered more than 300 million active users per month, ahead of the Twitter service in this indicator. This was stated by Instagram CEO Kevin System, Interfax reports. “Over the past four years, what has begun as the dream of two friends has turned into a global community, which publishes more than 70 million photos and videos every day,” the Sistroma said in the official Instagram blog.

RNO will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Russian-Swiss relations © Moscow Conservatory On December 17, a concert of the Russian National Orchestra will be held in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Switzerland. According to Interfax , musicians will take part in the concert, whose work is somehow connected with the cultures of both countries.

He lives in a kubrick, which, in quiet weather, sways slightly from wine and light - over the Patriarchals. His palms are woody, of those trees that grow over the abyss. And the look with which they look into the fire. Soft "g" in the voice of solid spruce rocks. It looks like a teenager sharpened in a sage, as in a tower with a high window.

Forest Laureates of the Debut Prize Today, December 11, the jury of the XV independent literary prize "Debut", which is awarded to young authors writing in Russian, called the 2014 laureates. “The level of work was very professional. More and more people who know how to write well, but at the same time, the percentage of about the same one and the same one from year to year, ”said the prize curator Olga Slavnikova.

To a great disorder of fans, the Moscow group The Retuses recently announced the collapse. Her frontman, the author and performer of songs by Mikhail Rodionov, does not yet disclose what he intends to do next: “I went on a creative vacation. Now I am in Thailand, in a couple of days I will go to Cambodia. I record the sea, cicads, frogs on samples. I do not make any plans. As always, I swim with the flow in the boat without oars.