The dismantling of Soviet sculptures is completed in Vilnius On Monday night, July 20, the latest sculptural compositions of the Soviet era are dismantled in Vilnius. Instead of them, flowers are installed in flowerpots. According to Radio Liberty , we are talking about the figures of soldiers, workers, peasants and students standing on the Green Bridge. According to the city authorities, four figures came into a dilapidated state and were removed for security reasons.

Declared the curator of the Venetian architectural biennale © Dezeen Magazine Chilean architect Alehandro Araveno was appointed artistic director of the 2016 Venice Architectural Biennale. It is reported by Artforum . Alejandro Araveno (b. 1967) received an architect’s diploma at the Catholic University of Chile, the Alejandro Aravena Architects Bureau subsequently built several buildings on the territory of the university.

There is a tradition in the Ukrainian cinema community - to wait for one of the two main festivals of the country (“Youth” and Odessa) in the hope of new revelations in a short competition. Waiting this is certainly accompanied by mandatory skepticism, and its result is already the usual disappointment from time to time. The national contest "Youth" has become one of the weakest in recent years.

Operalia competition summed up © adevărul John though In the Royal Theater of Covent Garden in London, the international competition of young opera performers Operalia, founded by Placido Domingo, ended. The first awards received tenor John at least (Romania) and Soprano Lisa Davidsen (Norway). It is reported by RIA Novosti . The winners of the competition received $ 30 thousand dollars, the Romanian singer was also awarded the personal Domingo Prize of $ 10 thousand dollars.

RIA Novosti made a quiz, offering readers 15 questions about the passenger Boeing, shot down over Donbass. If the reader answered the question correctly, for example, indicated the exact number of victims, the algorithm congratulated on the correct answer. The quiz caused indignation on the network and was removed from the site. RIA apologized and promised to punish the perpetrators up to dismissal . The media earn on tragedies, this is known. Now they also play.

Maria Galina’s novel “Autochton” is read differently by different people. It is possible that of these numerous readings, no one coincides with the fact that Maria Galina herself has already said and will probably say about her novel. © AST For such multilayer stories, this situation is completely natural. This novel is not written at all so that everyone is equally understood. It sounds somewhat clumsy, but the “autochthons” do not need to be equally understood - we must feel equally.

If you try to talk with a foreigner about modern Russian music, then you will most likely come across a blind spot of complete ignorance. If you are very lucky, then your interlocutor will name one or two name-among them it may be the Jack Wood .

The bill on foreign cinema tax will be developed by September © Irina Bazhenova / 66.ru Today, July 20, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky stated that the bill, which involves the abolition of VAT benefits for tickets for foreign films, would not do any harm and will be developed by September. “We are talking about developing a set of measures in terms of additional financial support for our filmmakers. - quotes Medinsky "Interfax" .

Mikhailovsky Theater transferred the Prime Minister "Carmen" © Mikhailovsky Theater Today, July 20, the Mikhailovsky Theater announced the transfer of the opera Carmen, which was appointed premiere in the fall of 2015, due to “financial uncertainty”. The corresponding statement of the director of the Mikhailovsky Theater Mikhail Kekhman is given on the theater website . “We are now in the conditions of uncertainty, we do not know what financing the theater will have in 2016,” Kekhman explained.

In Yekaterinburg, vandals attacked the white tower of Uralmash Last weekend in Yekaterinburg, an attack was made on a white tower - an object of cultural heritage of federal significance, a monument of architecture of constructivism, where it is supposed to create a circular panorama of the construction of the Uralmash plant.

The Bolshoi Theater will take place the premiere of the ballet "Hero of our time" From July 22 to 26, the 239th season of the Bolshoi Theater will complete the premiere performances of the ballet “Hero of our time” by composer Ilya Demutsky. Director - Kirill Serebrennikov, choreographer - Yuri Posokhov, conductor - Anton Grishanin.

Yuri Milner will invest $ 100 million in search of an alien mind © James Duncan Davidson / O'Reilly Conferences The co -owner of Mail.ru Group and DST GLOBAL Yuri Milner will invest $ 100 million in search of a reasonable life in the Universe for 10 years. “This is the largest project in the history of the search for extraterrestrial civilizations,” Milner said in an interview with RBC .