The main keeper of the museum sold paintings, replacing them with copies © uz24.uz The Tashkent Court sentenced the main keeper of the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan Mirfiza Usmonov by nine and three months of prison. He was found guilty that for 15 years he sold paintings from the Museum’s collection, posting fakes instead. According to The Guardian , two Usmonov’s two accomplices received eight years.

On December 18, a concert of the project “Monk's Casino” was scheduled in the Moscow “House”, in which pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach with a quartet recorded all the author’s music of one of the fathers of Bibop Moninka (and this is 69 compositions on three discs) and has been fulfilling it for almost ten years. This concert is interesting not only by the fact that it goes more than three hours and the synopsis is like a record -aping from Guinness Book.

The war in eastern Ukraine needs to be urgently completed. By mid -December, even its main sponsors, distinguishable among the Kremlin towers, agree with this statement. The position in which the Russian leadership turned out to be in connection with the ongoing conflict is difficult to give at least some positive definition.

The first full-fledged opera premiere in the large (concert performance of the "Orleans Virgo" and the Children's and Gerda Children's and Gerda) is called Verdi completely non-original-"Rigoletto" . But upon closer inspection, the textbook opera opera operators did not appear indecently on the stage of museumliture on the stage - it went here until 1971, then only in the CDS.

The Moscow Observer Prize was awarded to Boris Dubin © Radio Liberty On Monday, December 15, in Moscow a ceremony of presenting the literary and critical prize "Moscow Observer" was held. The laureate of a large prize of 50,000 rubles was a culturalist, translator and poet Boris Dubin. He was marked posthumously for an article about the presentation of Oleg Yuryev’s book “Filled Cunning”, the website of the Cultural Initiative project reports.

Theater.doc launched a crowdfunding project The Theater.doc Theater evicted by the Moscow authorities announced the fundraiser on the Internet. “We, the theater.doc team, are forced to leave our house, which we built for 12 years, and start everything from scratch in a new place. We are determined to play our performances and actively work on new ones. We want the anniversary of the creation of the Doc - February 14 - to meet not in sorrow and tears, by what we have lost, but in the theater.doc!

The development of the foundations of state cultural policy has been completed © tula.er.ru Vladimir Tolstoy Today, December 16, the working group on the development of the foundations of state cultural policy approved this document. Next week with small amendments, he will be presented at a meeting of the State Council and the Presidential Council for Culture. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the presidential adviser to Vladimir Tolstoy.

The Honored Artist of Tatarstan Zul Kamalova recorded a marvelous album of the Pentatonic Electropee along with the Dutch producer German Popov, aka Omfo (Our Man Man from Odessa) , songs from the most famous album of which “Trans Balkan Express” sound in the film “Borat” by Sasha Baron Cohen. Kosmostan is based on the legend of Princess Mars Tataeli invented by Kamalova.

- Have you been the last time in Gorky Park for a long time? - The last time I was here at the opening of the exhibition in the Garage, so in Gorky Park - this is relatively speaking, I only passed by. And before that - when we made an exhibition in the Garage last winter, spent a lot of time here at night and days, during the construction, running out of a bite to eat, walk, etc. So it cannot be said that I traced all the park novelties directly.

Pirate Bay torrents sheltered Isohunt © Isohunt The ISOHUNT Torrent Treker team copied and laid out on a special website of the Torrents of the world's largest pirate website The Pirate Bay, whose servers were confiscated by the Stockholm police. The Pirate Bay was disconnected in early December, but now its databases are available with the possibility of searching on the OldPiratEbay.org website, Medusa reports. “Dear Isohunt and The Pirate Bay!

Documentary cinema is different. There are films affects that capture those fragments of reality that we do not have time in life, do not want or cannot see-and returning them to us from the screen in the form that we are not able to emotionally ignore. Such are the majority. There are stories, in their center are heroes and events: stories that we are interested in listening and observing. There are films-screens that generate clear meanings using installation, rigid clashes and comparisons.

The film by Alexei German Jr. The film "Under the Electric Clouds" of the Russian director Alexei German Jr. was selected in the main competitive program of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, which will be held from February 5 to 15, 2015. This is stated in the message on the official website of Berlinal . “Under the electric clouds” - the co -products of Russia, Ukraine and Poland, the shooting began in 2012 in Ukraine, and ended in 2014 in St. Petersburg.