Kremlin against the "anti -pirate" Internet tax © AHFEELABOUT / Flickr The presidential administration has prepared a negative feedback on the concept of introducing the author’s fee on the Internet, proposed by the Russian Union of copyright holders (RSP), the council of which is headed by Nikita Mikhalkov. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to sources familiar with the text of the document.

Aquarium released the single into the subordination of Anatoly Gunitsky Today, February 17, the Aquarium group published on the Internet the new single "Conductor". All funds proceeds from its sale will be spent on the treatment of one of the founders of the Aquarium Anatoly "George" Gunitsky. A song that you can listen to and download on the site kroogi.com is recorded as part of the terrarium project.

"Echo of Moscow" will stop broadcasting in St. Petersburg From March 17, General Director of Echo of Moskvy, from March 17, will respond to a license from the St. Petersburg branch of the radio station-Echo of St. Petersburg. This information was confirmed by RBC by the editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow Alexei Venediktov. “In front of me lies a letter that since March 17, 2015, we,“ Echo of Moscow ”, terminate the contract with the company that broadcasts Echo in St.

The Ministry of Culture will strengthen the punishment for showing adult films for children The Ministry of Culture has developed amendments to the legislation that strengthen the responsibility of cinemas for the admission of children to the 18+ sessions. The amendments are aimed at approval to the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications, TASS reports with reference to the Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Ivliev.

On February 14, the winners of the Berlin Film Festival were awarded. The second most important prize - with Pablo Larrain for the “club”, a gloomy story about a conspiracy boarding house for Catholic priests who committed crimes against the law of secular and church. Its inhabitants are trying to behave well, but it turns out so -so. Lyudmila Pogodina found out from Larrain how documentary this story was, and heard several curious cases from the life of the Catholic Church.

A special project “School of the 90s” , launched by Colta.ru, the educational portal “Your History” and the “Lessons of the nineties”, is dedicated to the era of the 1990s in the context of Russian history. For the most important period in the latest history of Russia, we will look at the main signs of that time and its key events through the eyes of famous teachers of history and literature.

Andrey Rodionov and Alexander Zaitsev will present "Crime and Punishment" © Andrey Rodionov and Alexander Zaitsev 28.02 in the workshop / Facebook On February 28, the poet Andrei Rodionov and musician Alexander Zaitsev (“Christmas toys”) will perform at the Club “Workshop” in Moscow with the musical and poetic project “Crime and Punishment”.

Placido Domingo will not enter the jury of the Tchaikovsky contest Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo will not be able to take part in the jury of the XV International Competition named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. This was announced by the co -chairman of the organizational committee of the competition Valery Gergiev, reports RIA Novosti . Preomingo was previously called the possible members of the jury. “Placido Domingo is a very busy artist. - explained Gergiev.

The second Trans-Siberian art festival will be held in Novosibirsk © Trans-Russian art festival Vadim Repin From March 22 to April 5 in Novosibirsk, the Trans-Siberian art festival, created by a native of the city by violinist Vadim Repin, will be held in Novosibirsk for the second time.

On February 20, the gallery of floating sound working in the media center of the New Scene of the Alexandrinsky Theater will show a film made at the Austrian Institute of Media Aarcheology , the director of the Elizabeth Schiman Institute in co -authorship with a well -known monumental excursion into the history of Soviet electronics "Electro Moscow" Lena Tikhonova in 2012 was shot "Video Porter No. 6: Maryan Amashe." Unlike the previous five, this portrait is posthumous.

COLTA.RU decided to find out from those who professionally engage in cultural ties and “cultural dialogue” between organizations and citizens of Russia and European states, this kind of cooperation has intensified or weakened, and whether any changes have been observed in this area. In addition, we decided to ask the same questions to Russian curators included in the international art process and Ukrainian artists who in the past actively participated in such cultural cooperation.

Muscovites ask not to erect a monument to Prince Vladimir on the Vorobyovy Mountains © Russian Military Historical Society On the Internet there is an appeal of residents of the Gagarinsky district of Moscow to the mayor of the city Sergey Sobyanin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with a request to cancel the construction of a 24-meter monument to Prince Vladimir on the Vorobyovy Mountains.

Hermitage employees were banned to retire in bookstores © State Hermitage Fragment of the Cover of the Catalog of the Exhibition "Collected Miraculous Treasures of Book. Hermitage Library 250 years old " Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, in connection with theft, tightened the control system in the Museum Scientific Library. In particular, Hermitage employees are prohibited from being alone in bookstores.

The lecture of the Polytechnic Museum was performed by the Deputy Director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, historian and writer Alexander Khramchikhin. Colta.ru publishes the decryption of the lecture "Military Technologies: Forecasts of Development". The whole history of mankind the military demanded new technologies for conducting hostilities.