“I think that you came with good intentions,” the border guard told me at the Odessa airport, kindly returning the passport. Not everyone who came to the Odessa festival Classics from Moscow was just as lucky, some expected a much more tense conversation on the border, but this on -duty phrase personally became a tuning for the whole trip for me - really, and with what intentions I went to the festival of classical music to the country where the war is going on?

Oliver von Donanya will become the main conductor of the Yekaterinburg Opera © SSZ The main conductor of the Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater was appointed Slovak Maestro Oliver von Donanya. He will begin to fulfill his new duties on July 20. It is reported by Kommersant . According to the director of the theater Andrei Shishkin, who previously held the post of chief conductor Pavel Klinichev will continue to cooperate with the theater as an invited conductor.

Roskomnadzor reached the Internet archive Today, June 25, Roskomnadzor blocked one of the pages of Service of storage of copies of Wayback Machine web pages. For some time, Russian Internet users did not have access to the entire Archive.org resource. According to RBC , the Prosecutor General’s Office decided to block the “single jihad in Russia” page on June 16, finding “calls in riots, extremist activities, participation in mass events conducted in violation of the established order”.

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 9252 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.

Why are football players playing worse than at home? The point is not at all the beneficial influence of the native walls, the journalist David Randall claims in his book “Sleep Science”. Jetlag is to blame, the shift of the sleep and wakefulness cycle. If the national team flies from Moscow to San Francisco (the difference of 10 hour zones), then on the field it will be released late at night or in the early morning Moscow time.

The Communists were allowed a referendum on the monument to Dzerzhinsky © Mdgentry / Flickr Monument to Dzerzhinsky near the CGB of the USSR, July 10, 1991 Today, June 25, the Mosgorisbirk registered the initiative group of the MGK of the Communist Party of the Communist Party for the referendum on the return of the monument to Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow. It is reported by RIA Novosti .

The program of Kyiv Biennale was announced The curators of the Biennale of Contemporary Art “Kiev School” Georg Schelhammer and Hedvig Zakenhuber called its main platforms and topics of six schools - educational projects that will be open to all for two months of Biennale. The main platform of Biennale will be the house of clothing on Lviv Square in Kyiv.

Spring 1941. USSR. City n . Living room with a wooden buffet. Ugly landscapes on the walls, a table set with bourgeois grace. At the table are four. German speech, terribly reminiscent of stage. Soup? Oh yes, please. A little more eggplant? Thank you very much. Suddenly theatrical politeness breaks into a disgusting scandal.

Along the perimeter of the scene of the Theater of Nations, where Robert Wilson put Pushkin's Tales , Variet lights burn. There is an orchestra pit - there the musicians are enthusiastically participating in a synthetic booth, performing Cocorosie music, mixed on a stylistic, polyzhanr eccentrian. After the long -standing avant -garde masterpieces, Wilson entered a different territory. “Pushkin's Tales” is a paradox performance addressed to a simple-minded public and-to the enlightened.

1. With some, very recent, we live in the absence of “general questions” and “general answers”. There are no more physics lessons, which at the same time, at the same hour, take place in schools on the streets of Lenin in Pskov, Murmansk, Kaliningrad and Vladikavkaz. There is no canon, there is no big style.

The final vote of the “rain” after the debate between Chubais and Navalny is the best illustration of how the dispute ended live. Viewers are invited not to choose the winner of these debates, but to answer the quite rhetorical question “Did Navalny and Chubais understand each other?”, That is, the position of the channel is easily read: the friendship won, and the main result of the discussion - that it took place at all. To some extent, this is true.

An unknown picture of Monet was discovered © Philip Toscano The director of the London Gallery Jonathan Green accidentally found the unknown work of Claude Monet on the back of another picture of the French artist. This was one of the two pastels of Monet, bought by a galleryist last year at a auction in Paris, reports The Guardian . Green discovered the third pastel only many days after returning to London. It depicts a pier and a lighthouse in a Havra, where Claude Monet lived in childhood.

Black jeans, dark sunglasses, single -color T -shirts and light sports bags. British rockers The British rockers that are not distinguished against the background of an ordinary crowd Ghosts has been studying Moscow streets in the morning. To their surprise, on the advertising poster of one of the stops, they notice a man in exactly the same T -shirt as one of the group members - Alex Sharman.

Hvorostovsky canceled concerts due to illness © Dmitri Hvorostovsky / Facebook Opera baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky canceled all summer concerts: he found a brain tumor, in the near future the singer will have to undergo treatment. “With deep regret, Dmitry is forced to cancel all performances from today until the end of August. Recently, he has been experiencing serious health problems, he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

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 9252 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.