The Ministry of Culture will save on festivals © Innov.ru In accordance with the anti -crisis plan, the budget of the Ministry of Culture in 2015 decreased by 10%. First of all, the reduction will affect the financing of festivals. “Whoever touches in the first place is now being decided. The anti-crisis plan was only approved, now we are watching the numbers, ”the press service of the ministry told Interfax .

The writer Colin McCalou died © The Courier-Mail Today, January 29, at the age of 77, the Australian writer Colin McCalou, the author of the novel “Singing in the Torner”, died. It is reported by The Sydney Morning Held . McCalou died in a hospital on the island of Norfolk in the Pacific Ocean, 1400 km east of Australia, where she has lived since the late 1970s.

An educational project Arzamas has opened Today, January 29, the site of the educational project Arzamas with free lecture courses on history, literature, art, anthropology and philosophy has earned. The project was created by the former editor -in -chief of the magazine "Big City" Philip Dzyadko and the founder of "theories and practitioners" Danil Perushev.

On January 25, participants in the Russian Antarctic expedition drilled a well to the relict lake of the East, which was isolated from the outside world for millions of years. Perhaps “alien” organisms live in this lake, unlike anything, known today, but similar to those that can exist in the under -the -sized oceans of the satellites of Jupiter - Europe or Ganyveda.

Most Russians consider it unacceptable caricatures for the Prophet Muhammad © BBC With the statement of “Publishing cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad, they are unacceptable, since they insult the Muslims” agreed in total 69% of the participants in the survey conducted by the Levada Center.

The St. Petersburg Rock Group Bungalow Bums is better known in Europe because their track “ Liar ( PZDBL )” was lit up at the end of last year at the collection of Classic magazine Rock " Riders on The Storm ", and their third plate" Lawless Days in Reservation ”is released by the respected German rock-label Nasoni Records.

Jeff Bridges released an embossed album The voice of American actor Jeff Bridges sounds on the double album “Jeff Bridges Sleeping Tapes”, recorded for those who are difficult to fall asleep. According to Fact Magazine , the sounds of wild nature, piano, synthesizer and all kinds of audio effects are also heard on the record. Kifus Chancha, composer Kifus Chancha, who wrote music for the series “ Nashville ” and “True Detective” ( True Detective ), participated in the work on the album.

Krasnodar art scene is one of the most rapidly developing in today's Russia. First of all, we are talking about recycle groups (Andrey Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov) and ZIP (Eldar Ganeyev, Evgeny Rimkevich, Vasily and Stepan Subbotins). The latter a little less than a year ago, together with a related initiative - the Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art (KISI), was awarded the Innovation Prize for the amount of merits in the nomination "Regional Project".

The Ministry of Culture will be processed by the Law on Mate © Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation The Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said that his ministry will study the practice of applying the law on the ban on obscene vocabulary and offer amendments to it. “It is very difficult to come up with perfect legislation. Now we will study law enforcement practice and offer something that will be fulfilled and so that the law is not violated.

GTSII will show the work of artists of the circle of Mikhail Grobman © HCCI Today, January 29, in the small hall of the State Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow on the occasion of the presentation of the book “Textilers. The guest notebooks of Mikhail Grobman 1964–1971 ”opens a four -day exhibition of artists, which are discussed in the book.