The finalist of the Politicosvet transmitted the cash prize to Colta.ru © from the archive of Ekaterina Shulman Political scientist, associate professor of the Institute of Social Sciences of the RANEPA Ekaterina Shulman, who became the finalist of the Polit -Posvet journalistic prize this year, decided to transfer its money prize - 50 thousand rubles - the COLTA.RU site.

There is a collection of donations to help the victims of the flood in Tbilisi On the Internet, a campaign is held for fundraising that will be sent to help the victims of flood in Tbilisi on June 13. On that day, the water of the river emerged from the banks flooded residential buildings, damaged roads, infrastructure, the zoo was especially badly damaged, from where dozens of animals escaped.

The outstanding Russian choreographer and one of the world's largest specialists in the restoration of ballet classics, Sergei Vikharev, released “futile precaution” in Yekaterinburg.

The Moscow Pompeya group, representing Russia at the SXSW All -American festival, is now more concerned about its career outside our country. Perhaps that is why, according to her new video, shot to the song from the latest album “ Real” , you will never guess that this song of the Russian group. In the frame: American Pasadena, American schoolchildren and American football. The premiere of the clip also took place in America.

In May of this year, Fassbinder would have turned 70. Among other fantasies, this is one of the most impracticable. Of course, about any early death (he died in 1982, in 37), this can be said. But the life of Fassbinder was lived in a centrifuge, which wear out the body and compresss the chronology. His new life, la vita Nuova , began abroad of matter and dates, at rest of immortality, which he would enjoy if he could.

Awarded the "Crystal Turandot" Award © "Lenkom" Scene from the play "Valpurgis Night" On Thursday, June 18, at the Moscow Academic Theater. Vakhtangov held the 24th ceremony of awarding laureates of the Independent Theater Prize "Crystal Turandot". According to TASS , the “Valpurga Night” of the Moscow State Theater “Lenkom”, which his artistic director Mark Zakharov put on the works of Venedikt Erofeev, was recognized as the best performance.

The film school "2morrow+arena" opens The Manezh Museum and Exhibition Association launches a new project-the 2morrow+Manege film school, which grew out of the 2morrow/Tomorrow festival. The creators of the school are film director, producer of the 2morrow Films film company, organizer of the 2morrow/Tomorrow International Festival and Angelina Nikonova and Anna Degtyareva, who has been working in the festival team since 2012, reports the MSO Manezh MVO .

Today in the Pokrovsky Music Musical Theater is the next world premiere: the opera Alexander Zhurbin, “The Small Demon”, written according to the novel of the same name by Fedor Sologub. The director of the performance is George Isaacan, behind the remote control - Vladimir Agronsky. Ekaterina Biryukova met with the author of the opera. - What did this unpleasant man of Predonov, the main character of Roman Sologub, attracted you? - Well, I lived with this plot for a long time.

An exhibition of Zahi Hadid will be held in the Hermitage © Zaha Hadid Architects Interior Museum Maxxi in Rome On June 27, the first retrospective exhibition of the architect Zahi Hadid will open in the State Hermitage in Russia. At the exhibition prepared by the Hermitage and the London studio Zahi Hadid specifically for the Nikolaev hall of the Winter Palace, about 300 models, drawings, photographs, sculptures and design objects will be represented.

Among the dozen films of the retrospective program of the MMKF “Around the Fassbinder”, made with the support of the Goethe-Institute in Moscow (you can read more about the concept and films of the program here ), there are films of his associates in the new German cinema. In particular, the Red Sun (1970) Rudolf Tome, which Fassborder loved very much (personal relations between the two directors were not so clear).

"Memorial" collects funds for a book about Katyn © Iti Cinema Hard from the movie "Katyn" In the year of the 75th anniversary of the Katyn execution, the Memorial Society plans to publish a book of memory “Killed in Katyn”. To finance the project, funds were announced on the Internet.

"Pioneer" will show MMKF films From June 21 to 28 in the Summer Pioneer in Gorky Park and in the Sokolniki park, films of the 37th Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) will be held. The selection included films from the programs “8 1/2 films”, “Films that were not”, “Tropical euphoria” and “Spectrum”. Eight paintings will be shown under the open sky, including Eisenstein in Guanahuato Peter Greenai, Pazolini Abel Ferrara and our smell Larry Clark.

MMKF begins Today, June 19, the 37th Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) opens with the French-Chinese film “Totem Wolf”. In the main competition program , the winner of which will receive the main prize of the festival, “Golden St. George”, 12 paintings participate. “Of the leading cinematic powers, only Spain, France and Japan participate in the competition, and with films not the first row,” the Russian newspaper notes.