In mid -December passed IV Moscow Urbanist Forum - the main event in the field of Russian urbanism. An annual event with the participation of the Moscow government, international and Russian experts, of course, is a resonant project - both for the professional community and for the general public. From the good: regions appeared on the map of the Moscow forum.

SCSI -9 Digital album Russian ", published more than 10 years ago on the German label F Orce Tracks , announced to the world that in Russia they are doing dance electronics as in Berlin. Since then, Anton Kubikov and Maxim Milyutenko have been the ambassadors of modern Russian electronics, although during this time a new generation of musicians from Russia has appeared, many of whom made their debut on an organized SCSI -9 Pro - TEZ label .

The restoration of the "Children's World" in Moscow has ended The owner and developer of the Central Children's Store in Lubyanka, the company "Galses Development" reports the completion of work on the restoration and adaptation of the historical building of the shopping complex. In the spring, it will open for visitors. “The cost of construction and installation works on the project amounted to about 8 billion rubles. General designer-"Mosproekt-2" named after M.V. Posokhina, workshop No. 14.

It is unlikely that the disappearance of thin brochures Time Out , a free supplement to Moscow restaurants, will be mourned by anyone outside the media community. The tenth anniversary of Time Out in Russia, which should have been celebrated a month earlier, no one noticed.

To the sounds of fanfare and clicking cameras along the red carpet of the stalls to the stage, a glamorous procession from guests of the prestigious Wartburg Film Festival is paced to the stage. On the stage, a well-trained black-and-white maintenance staff is fussing. Microphones, water bottles - everything is ready to start the struggle for the main prize: a figurine in the form of a blossoming papal staff. Minnesingers of our time - filmmakers - represent their new films.

Joe Cocker died © HIP-O Records On Monday, December 22, at the age of 70, English bluam singer Joe Cocker died in the United States. According to BBC , the cause of death was lung cancer. Joe Cocker was born in 1944 in Sheffield, first went on stage at the age of 12, sparing with a group of an older brother. After school, Coker began to work as an assistant to the gas-gazovik locksmith, but soon returned to the music again.

Barenboim says goodbye from La Scala The last performances of his music director Daniel Barenboym are held in La Scala. In 2015, Ricardo Shaiya will take this post. On Monday, December 22, Barenboy gave a farewell concert on the stage of the Milan Theater, fulfilling Sonata Schubert. Today, December 23, he will conduct the last performance of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio.

SK started a criminal case of festivals "Books in Parks" © unise.ru The Investigative Committee of Russia (SK) air fraud on fraud during the holding of the Festivals of Book in Parks with the participation of Dmitry Bykov, Leo Rubinstein, Viktor Shenderovich, Boris Akunin, Mikhail Shats and Tatyana Lazareva.

-Firstly, I would like to ask about the attitude of Germany and the Germans towards Russia. Is it changed in recent months? -In Germany, they still feel great historical guilt in relation to Russia: the Wehrmacht committed monstrous crimes here and in Ukraine. The German people really want friendship with Russia and is very disappointed with what has been happening in recent months. No one really understands what is happening.

"Practice" will present a performance on Prigov On January 16, the premiere of the musical performance “Revolution” in the texts of Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov “I play the accordion” and “Revolution” will be held at the Moscow Theater “Practice”. The director is the Laureate of the Golden Mask Yuri Muravitsky, the artist is Katya Shcheglova. Students of the workshop of Dmitry Brusnikin school-studio of the Moscow Art Theater are engaged in the play .

"Freedom is an opportunity to say that twice two to four." George Orwell The series “2+2 = 5, or Anti -Utopia” continues the cycle of photographs of Valery Nistratov , reflecting the state of transformation, changes and the spirit of the time of the new Russia. Consciously “zombie” television, the author of this series travels to different regions of the country, trying to capture the state of affairs in modern Russia.

Tretyakov Gallery will show huge projections of paintings © Spn Communications in Novosibirsk Promotion "City Buildings" was held in November This winter, projection of paintings from its collection will be shown at the facade of the Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean Val. This was announced by TASS Deputy Minister of Culture Elena Milovzorova.

On December 5, Sergey Georgievich Stratanovsky, one of the classics of the Leningrad ignorant literature, turned 70 years old. Just in the Pushkin Fund publishing house, his new book “Hammer Nekrasov” has been published. - Your family was connected with science, while you chose poetic creativity. How do the language of science and the language of poetry coexist for you (or, on the contrary, mutually repel)? - I really come from an academic family.