"My Personal Elk" will open the Sky Fest animation festival © CoolConnections Frame from the cartoon "My Personal Elk" From December 18 to 21, the Moscow Cinema Horizon Formula Cinema will host the Sky Fest animation festival. The guest of the festival will be Leonid Shmelkov, the director of the cartoon "My Personal Elk", the program with the participation of which will be shown on the opening day of the festival.

At the end of November, James Watson, an 86-year-old discoverer of the DNA structure, put his Nobel medal to the Christie ' s auction. This was the first Nobel medal to be launched from a hammer during the life of a laureate. An anonymous buyer, who later turned out to be Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, acquired it for 4 million 750 thousand dollars in order to return it to the owner - which has nullified the whole meaning of the gesture.

Rigoletto returns to the Bolshoi Theater © Bolshoi Theater New Scene of the Bolshoi Theater Verdi's opera Rigoletto after a 25-year break returns to the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater. The production on the new stage was carried out by Canadian director Robert Karsen. A series of premiere shows will be held on December 14, 16–21, TASS reports. The theater’s press service reported that tickets for the entire premiere cycle were completely sold out.

On January 6, 8, 10 and 12, in Moscow, as usual, concerts of the Festival of Chamber Music "Return" will be held. Over the 18 years of its existence from a youth experiment, laid out by two graduates of the Gnesinsky school, it has turned into an obligatory winter part of the program of any self -respecting intelligent music love.

Maxim Aleksandrovich Osipov , a cardiologist and writer, founder of the Medical Publishing House "Practice" and a charitable "Society for the Assistance of the Tarus Hospital", said Colta . Ru About the main vices of Russian medicine and how they can be corrected. At the site of the reformers, I would probably be shy to call the reform what they are now doing with Moscow hospitals and doctors.

The funds are raised for the documentary "Free love!" Directors Arkady Kogan, Beata Bubenets, Natalya Joseph, Lyudmila Bychkova and Marat Kenji launched a campaign for raising funds for the production of the documentary “Free Love!” On the Internet, about the families that the prison shared. “Our heroes are the most ordinary people. - The authors of the film on the campaign page on the site Planeta.ru write. - The tests make them be strong.

"Hipster Stalinism" was discovered in Moscow Lecturer at the Institute of Media, Architecture and Design "Strelka" Cuba Stopchki found a new term for the architectural transformations of Moscow in recent years - "Hipster Stalinism". So he called the VDNH reconstruction in the material of the British newspaper The Guardian , the Internet publication "Yod" reports.

In Russia, the Swiss trio Contreband is touring with might and main. Concert schedule - by link . What is a cover? This word itself, Cover , tells the image of the bedspread: some new matter with a new pattern and a new texture, under which a familiar figure is hiding. Let's say the subject of the situation. Such a familiar, perhaps even tired eye and turning into a blind spot, the chair suddenly manifests itself in the room - you just have to cover it with a new blanket.

In the 1980s that the Australian group AC / DC performs music for morons, teachers, newspapers and energetic young propagandists-corresponding people of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, shod in the fashionable boots-Dutiki reported. They would try to pronounce this outside of school and editorial walls.

- Jonathan, what did you do in Chechnya during the war? - I worked as part of the French Humanitarian organization “Promotion Against Hunger” and was responsible for the delivery of food to different areas covered by the war. And in 2009, I only visited Chechnya as a journalist to write a report “Chechnya. The third year ”about the authorities of Ramzan Kadyrov. - Was Chechnya your first war? - No, before that I worked in Bosnia for two years.

Moscow authorities - for a monument to the victims of repression on Sakharov Avenue © Official portal of the mayor and government of Moscow Sergey Kapkov The Moscow government supported the idea of ​​installing a monument to the victims of political repressions on Academician Sakharov Avenue. The project of the monument will be selected following an open competition. This was told by Interfax by the head of the Department of Culture of Moscow Sergey Kapkov.

Elena Fanailova will perform in House 12 and show a film about Peter Vile © Kostantin Rubakhin On Wednesday, December 17, in the Moscow Club “House 12” as part of the cycle of evenings “Poems about me” will be a poet and journalist Elena Fanailova. Also in the program of the evening of the premiere of the documentary of Olga Loginova and Valentina Baryshnikov “Peter Vail. Cinema about me.