In the center of Moscow, houses of the beginning of the 20th century are demolished © Mosgornah / Archnadzor Ernst Richard Nirnzeee. Drawing of the facade of the building 2 houses 9 on Sadovnicheskaya Street Today, January 16, on Sadovnikiya Street in Moscow, under the protection of riot police, the demolition of the cultural heritage object began-a complex of profitable houses of the merchant Privalov, built in 1904-1913 according to the project of architect Ernst Richard Nirnzee.

Roskomnadzor warned the media from the publication of caricatures on religious topics © colta.ru The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) published an explanation in connection with the discussion about the admissibility of the publication of cartoons in Russia Muhammad from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

CIA documents related to the publication of "Dr. Zhivago" were declassified The Central Intelligence Directorate of the United States declassified 99 documents revealing the role of the CIA in the first publication in the Russian language of the novel by Boris Pasternak “Doctor Zhivago” in 1958. The “Zhivago Project” was one of the many secret programs of the CIA for the distribution of books, periodicals, pamphlets and other materials prohibited in the USSR, the CIA website said.

In the Central Executive Committee, the first personal exhibition of Italo-Swiss artist Marco Di Katrano “Portrait of Jenny” was opened in Russia (over the past three years, he has been exhibited twice in Moscow, but as part of collective projects). The exposition, in which the curator Vitaly Patsyukov saw traces of the “genetic code of art”, opens the anniversary program of the center dedicated to its decade. Olga Mamaeva spoke to the artist. - How did the name "Portrait of Jenny" arose?

Russian films are included in the special program of the Rotterdam festival © IFFR Frame from the film "Angels of Revolution" In the new program of the Rotterdam Film Festival “Signals: Propaganda: Evenday Propaganda), the films“ Angels of Revolution ”directed by Alexei Fedorchenko and“ Fools here are not a place ”by the artist Oleg Mavromati. The program will be focused on modern images and methods of propaganda and consists of three parts - films, exhibitions and seminars.

The most spectacular 12 beats for the symphony orchestra were written by Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev - escorting Cinderella running away from the ball. The music of the corresponding ballet, which sounded incredibly thoroughly and luxuriously, the state order gave its listeners on the eve of the mysterious Russian holiday - the old New Year. Behind the remote control on the stage of the Great Hall of the Conservatory stood a senior representative of the conducting family of Yurovsky - Mikhail.

During the New Year holidays, all progressive Internet users managed to download and see the mini-series “Baby Kenken”, shot by Bruno Dumon for the Arte channel, who participated in the Cannes program and called the Cahiers du Cinéma magazine the main film of the year (watching “Kenken baby” is legally and on a normal, screen next week in Moscow 2MorROW festival).

One day of the mid-70s in the famous throughout the country, but not enough for anyone, sacred, as they would say these days, a place, namely in the restaurant of the Central House of Writers, there was a certain scene that included for many years in the folk fund of the then literary life. In the half-empty hall of the restaurant, he sat gloomily, drank and bite some of the Soviet writers.

The musical producer Kim Fowley died © Josh Bernstein / Vimeo On Thursday, January 15, in Los Angeles at the age of 75, an American singer, author of songs, manager, radio host, poet and producer Kim Fowley died. It is reported by The Hollywood Reporter . Kim Fowley was born in 1939 in New Jersey, began to sign up in the late 1950s with Sandy Nelson, was a member of The Paradons and The Innocents , gained fame as the producer of the Chita Pie Pop-Duet Skip & Flip .

In Moscow, a hundred thousandth rally is being prepared against insulting the feelings of believers © Georgy Lanchevsky Prospekt Sakharov The Moscow City Hall submitted an application for a rally of protest against publications on January 25 on Sakharov, insulting religious feelings, with the number of participants of one hundred thousand people. This was announced by the radio station "Speak Moscow" one of the organizers of the action, journalist and human rights activist Ali Charinsky.

The biography of the Patriarch of Russian Electronics Eduard Artemyev is rich in amazing turns of fate.

Leading Russian geographer-American, political scientist and country rate-about the present and future of America, the new stage in geopolitics, myths about American Russophobia, the dollar, the differences in American and Russian attitude to its own mistakes. - Today, the “long hand of the State Department” is customary to explain all the conceivable and inconceivable cataclysms. What is it connected with? In general, what is the reason for the special attitude towards America?

Nora Gal Award opens the fourth season © "Babylon" On Saturday, January 17, the acceptance of applications for the Nora Gal Award for the translation of short prose from English begins. Nora Gal Award was established in 2012 in memory of the outstanding Russian translator Nora Gal (1912–1991). The founders of the award are its heirs: a literary critic and editor Edward Kuzmin, a literary figure and translator Dmitry Kuzmin.

In the Manezh Center, the exhibition “Big Hopes” is coming to an end- a cut of the young generation of video and media artists. Among the participants is a graduate of the Moscow school of photography and multimedia named after A. Rodchenko Albert Soldatov, who received the Kandinsky Prize last year as a young artist for his thesis “Baltus” . Elena Ishchenko talked with him about the video, overcoming frustration and the influence of bonuses on the artist. - Why Baltus ?