Our solid opera theaters are more and more serious to Christmas products. The best forces are fighting for the attention of little spectators. But no matter what inventive Kai, Gerda, Genzeli and Greteli were born on theatrical scenes, there is still one name that is outside of competition - a “click”. To get tickets for the December “Nutcracker” in Bolshaya (Mariinsky, Mikhailovsky, Perm, etc.) is actually this kind of professional sports for Russian mothers.

Sakharov Center is recognized as a "foreign agent" © Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation The Ministry of Justice included the Public Commission to preserve the heritage of Academician Sakharov in the register of non -profit organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent. This is stated in a message published on Thursday evening, December 25, on the Ministry of Justice’s website .

Kubana will return in 2015 © Kubana / YouTube The organizers of the Kubana International Musical Festival, which was held in the Krasnodar Territory until 2014, announced that it would again be held in 2015 in the previous format. The new venue for the festival has not yet been disclosed. Since 2009, the Kubana festival has been held in the village of Veselovka on the Taman Peninsula, with the exception of 2013, when it was transferred to the Blagoveshchenskaya village on the Black Sea.

Yesterday on YouTube (only for users from the United States) and on all torrent trackers in the world (for the rest), the online prime minister of the long-suffering comedy of Set Rogen and Evan Goldberg Interview was held.

Colta.ru asked experts to bring their personal results in 2014, calling the most important musical events in the world and in Russia.

Sobyanin: Museum visitors have become more than one and a half times more Today, December 26, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that "in recent years, the number of visitors to museums has increased by 45%." The mayor made this statement at the opening ceremony of the new building of the State Literary Museum in Shelaputinsky Lane, TASS reports. Sobyanin noted that the popularization of museums was facilitated by citywide cultural actions, such as “Night in the Museum”.

Some scientists put the probe on a comet. Others constructed for paralyzed exoskeleton, controlled by the power of thought, in which he made the first hit on the ball at the opening of the World Cup in the Brazilian San Paulo. All this is an occasion to rejoice for researchers and humanity. In the shadow of this list of victories remains different. One obstacle or failure is enough so that an excellent idea does not lead to any result.

Anna Narinskaya Observer ID "Kommersant" The editors of Colta.ru asked me to “bring the literary results of the year”, and if you take this task directly, then it is not difficult to complete it - because we finish this year in the scenery of purely literary, clearly entering through the fastest reality.

Oleg Sentsov was left under arrest until April Today, December 26, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow extended until April 11 the term of detention of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, accused of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea. This was reported by RAPSI . The lawyer asked Sentsov to change the measure of restraint, the prosecutor said that it took more time to complete the investigation in the case. In particular, investigators are going to conduct a number of examinations.

He plowed us all deeply. Only this comes to mind if you try to summarize a result of a year of a blue wooden horse. Red horse of war. Iron horse of propaganda, heavy as a tank. Or the prison horse - the activity in our ranks resembles the prison mail, the texts transported by the “horse”, while the boss turned away. Until the year of the horse ended, it is early to summarize the results - but you can remember what happened.

Awarded the Translation Prize "Master" © Guild "Master of Literary Translation" On Thursday, December 25, in Moscow, the annual awarding ceremony of the laureates of the Master Prize, awarded by the guild of “master of literary translation” for the best translation of works of foreign literature into Russian. The ceremony was held in the oval hall of the All -Russian State Library of Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino.

The Ministry of Culture will send a movie Museum at VDNH The Ministry of Culture is considering the possibility of placing the State Central Museum of Cinema in the territory of VDNH. “I want to boast of the New Year: we have an idea to use the unique reorganization, the transformation of VDNH that are now made by Moscow, in order to create a movie museum there,” the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said today, December 26, Interfax reports.

Theater.doc found a room © Mikhail Ugarov / Facebook On Saturday, December 27, the Moscow theater of documentary play “Theater.doc”, forced to leave the house in Trekhprudny Lane, where it has been located since 2002, has been moving to a new place. Now the address “Theater.doc”: Spartakovskaya St., 3, p.

Oleg Aronson philosopher It is difficult to talk about the changes in 2014, because what happened this year was expected by many. Changes, in my opinion, are associated not only with political and economic circumstances, but primarily with the moral sensations of those who live in Russia. This is not to say that these sensations are very different from what was before.

The Duma is preparing a limit for foreign songs © ldpr.ru Alexey Didenko State Duma deputy, member of the Higher Council of the LDPR, Alexei Didenko, developed a bill that introduces a 15 percent restriction on the use of foreign languages ​​in musical compositions in television and radio anester. According to Izvestia , the exception is supposed to be made only for the languages ​​of the former Soviet republics.