Ask at any parent forum what foreign children to teach. Someone will surely advise Chinese: both carriers for a billion and the economy of the wow-an influential language in all respects. The error in this logic is opened by an article printed this week in the American magazine ProChedings of The National Academy of Sciences .

A year ago, December 17, Grigory Dashevsky (1964-2013), a poet, translator, critic, died. A person whose importance for several generations of Russian writers cannot be overestimated. Today, Colta.ru publishes a poetic offering of Dashevsky’s memory, composed of verses of various authors written mainly over the year past from the date of his departure. We thank Tatyana Neshumova, who made this selection.

D - Pulse - one of the most famous Russian electronic groups in the West, coming from Izhevsk - recently released the new album " ConseQUENCED " on its own Vernal label Records , and now it is presented by NOCH single , recorded jointly with the St. Petersburg Electric Arphistry Olga Maksimova . Colta.ru represents a kaleidoscopic video on this unusual track.

December 15 at the Plane named after A.S. Pushkin opened the exhibition of Paul Klee “not a day without a line” , the first personal retrospective of the famous German-Swiss artist in Russia, who is considered one of the most mysterious and at the same time the most influential masters of historical avant-garde.

Rise in price to tickets for concerts of foreign artists © Rockpage.me The largest concert agency "Mill" in Russia announced an increase in the cost of tickets for concerts of foreign performers by 10-15%. “From December 22, prices for all categories of tickets of all foreign performers will increase by 10-15%. The most convenient way to avoid price raising is to purchase tickets before the specified date, ”the Mill page said on the VKontakte social network page.

Canceled the premiere of the comedy about Kim Jong -un © Columbia Pictures Frame from the movie "Interview" After the threats of hackers, the film company Sony Pictures Entertainment canceled the premiere of the comedic militant Evan Goldberg and Set Rogen "The Interview", in which the CIA organizes the attempt on the DPRK leader Kim Jong Yena. This was announced by Variety by a representative of the New York Cinema, where the premiere was supposed to take place on December 18.

- Please tell us about why you decided to take up the translation of the novel “In Search of the Lost Time” by Marseille Proust. In Russian, this work of seven books is - in versions of Adrian Frankovsky and Nikolai Lyubimov. - The idea came after I compared the first page of the French book with Russian translations. Just the first page. Where did it occur to me to compare? My friends found some dark phrases in one of the translations and asked what this really should mean.

The performances of Serebrennikov and Grishkovtsy will be shown at Wiener Festwochen - 2015 © Gogol Center / Wiener Festwochen Scene from the play "Dead Souls" Today, December 17, the program of one of the world's largest theatrical festivals is announced in Vienna - Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival). His program has two performances of Russian directors: “Dead Souls” by Kirill Serebrennikov and “Farewell to paper” by Evgeny Grishkovts.

The State Film Fund announced a counterfeit third of the collection of the Museum of the Cinema © ActualNews.org According to the results of the examination, the State Film Fund of the Russian Federation recognized it by counterfeit 841 a picture from the catalog of full -length feature films of the State Central Museum of Cinema. This is almost a third of all films stored in the museum funds. “In August, for the first time in 15 years, I began the inventory of the film fund.

Moscow State University is called the best university in the developing countries of Europe and Central Asia The first rating of universities of developing countries in Europe and Central Asia, compiled by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), was headed by M.V. Moscow State University Lomonosov. The QS rating also features a Novosibirsk State University, which shares the second place with the Karlov University (Czech Republic), St.

I released the third - and the last - the course of the school leader . For three years, this project of the Meyerhold Center for the training of personnel for the State Theater was supported by the Moscow Department of Culture. One of the leaders Shtl Elena Kovalskaya sums up and makes plans. First of all, Shtl is almost one and a half hundred young people of different theatrical professions.

The program of the Festival "Return" was announced © Return The XVIII Festival of Chamber Music "Return" will be held in the Rachmaninsky hall of the Moscow Conservatory from January 6 to 12, 2015. His program has three thematic concerts - “Shostakovich”, “Toteceites”, “Werther effect” - and a concert at the request. The Return festival since 1998 has been held at the initiative of the violinist of Roman Mints and Goboist Dmitry Bulgakov.

December 15 at the Plane named after A.S. Pushkin opened the exhibition of Paul Klee “not a day without a line” , the first personal retrospective of the famous German-Swiss artist in Russia, who is considered one of the most mysterious and at the same time the most influential masters of historical avant-garde.

Scorpions will celebrate the 50th anniversary in Russia © Eventim In 2015, the German rock band Scorpions in honor of its 50th anniversary will go on a world tour, in the schedule of which the 12 largest cities in Russia. On May 25, on the birthday of the soloist of the group Klaus Mine, Scorpions will be performed in the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, the organizers of the concert, the PMI corporation.