Under Irkutsk, the memorial cemetery of the victims of terror may die © 2008, SIC Archive "Memorial" The memorial cemetery in the Pivovarikh tract near Irkutsk, where in the late 1930s the NKVD officers secretly bury the bodies of the executed, threatens the destruction-they are going to lay a new runway of the Irkutsk airport in its territory. This is stated in a letter from the Board of the International Society "Memorial" to the governor of the Irkutsk region Sergey Eroshchenko.

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.

Evgenia Volunkova: "The privileges of those who remained in Russia" The editor -in -chief of “such cases” on how to beat sour cream into oil, write about people, regardless of their mistakes, fight for the “deep” reader and work where it is very difficult, but necessary 12 July 2023 9250 Meeting on the sling (first three hours) The five -hour conversation of Elena Kovalskaya, Nadia Plungan, Yuri Saprykin and Alexander Ivanov about why today it is necessary to be in Russia.

- You traveled to the cultural institutions of Switzerland last month. How did your route develop? - In general, the route was mainly theatrical - during the week we visited various theatrical sites of the country: in Zurich, Basel, Bern. Together with colleagues - co -founder of the Living City Foundation Diana Safarova, theater critic Dmitry Renansky (The chief editor of the "Theater" section COLTA.RU.- Ed.

In 1964, Vysotsky wrote his “Marsh of Physics”: “Let you not catch the neutrino by the beard / and you won’t put it in the test tube - / it would be great to Pontecorvo / take it stronger by the scruff!” . Although then, at the peak of the Soviet atomic project, it was from whom to choose from, it so coincided that Academician Bruno Pontecorvo, which was mentioned for the sake of intentionally inaccurate rhyme, is the only name in the text.

Today, February 24, as part of the Sinema Belief project, we will watch a documentary program about the war in the east of Ukraine, which consists of two parts. This is the film by British Anthony Batts “DPR. An amazing story about a home-made country ”(special prize Artdokfest-2014) and shooting in the framework of the Reality project on the other side of the front, in Ukrainian battalions.

Berlin Philharmonicsky will choose a new conductor © Medici.tv On May 11, the elections of the new chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra will be held, which will lead him since 2018. This was reported by the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost . Unlike other orchestras, the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic themselves choose the main conductor. To do this, on the appointed day of voting, all orchestras are required to gather (now there are more than 120).

Director Yevgeny Tatarsky died © TV channel "Star" On Monday, February 23, filmmaker and screenwriter Yevgeny Tatarsky died in St. Petersburg at the age of 76. It is reported by TASS .

With the St. Petersburg group of Cheekbones , in which the sisters Anelia and Mila play, we met during the Russia : Music : Change . Together with the Naades and Chikiss Cheekbones, they went to represent Russian indie music in Stockholm. After this trip, the English-speaking group visited Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, their last tour was British-in December 2014, the group performed in Lids and London, where a local rapper ran out in a fit of feelings on the stage and read Frestail.

The director of "Tanneser" started the case © Frol Podlesnaya, Alexey Tsiler / Business Portal "Continent Siberia" Timofei Kulyabin The Prosecutor's Office of Novosibirsk opened a case of an administrative offense against director Timofei Kulyabin in connection with his staging the opera of Wagner Tangeiser, which Metropolitan and Berdsky Tikhon complained about. At the disposal of COLTA.RU was a decision to initiate a case signed by the deputy prosecutor of Novosibirsk Igor Stasyulis.

Anthony Hegarty records a new album © ELISA RUSSO Enton Hegarte from Antony and The Johnsons reports that the New York group has been writing the first studio album since 2010. On his Facebook, Hegarty writes that he will be called “Hopelessness” , and this will be an “electronic record with sharp teeth”. In addition, the design of the album cover is published.

V-ROX festival will be held on the island of Russian The organizers of the V-ROX International Musical Festival announced the time and place of its holding-it will be held in Vladivostok on August 28-30, the main events and the gala concert will be held on the island of Russian in the Gulf of Peter the Great. It is expected that more than 200 groups from different countries will take part in the V-ROX 2015 . Applications are accepting from January 20 on the festival website .

The writer Boris Nosik died In Nice, the writer and journalist Boris Nosik died. On March 10, he would be 84 years old. Boris Mikhailovich Nosik was born in 1931 in Moscow, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages.

“Arzamas” is a new multimedia project, a collection of video courses on history, literature, art history and other humanitarian disciplines. Lectures are given by leading Russian scientists, and a team of people with journalistic and academic experience is engaged in the organization of the process and the preparation of inventive additions to lectures. Colta.ru talked with the founder and editor -in -chief of the project Philip Dzyadko about how it all works. - Who invented Arzamas?