The Cologne electrician Felix Cubin , who has been on stage from the age of 14, is a modern composer, radio host, lecturer and simply tireless inventor, torn between numerous projects. Not so long ago, Cuban came to speak in Moscow at the Outline festival , and after the concert he talked with the COLTA correspondent .

The results of the competitive selection of the festival "Lyubimovka-2015" were summed up Of the 467 plays sent to the festival of young drama “Lyubimovka-2015”, 26 were selected for the Chitka program, another 31 plays were especially noted by the festival selectors. Lists of selected plays are published on the festival website . Festival shows will take place from September 5 to 12 in the form of readers on the stage of theater.doc .

Robert Conquest died © Stanford University On August 3, British historian Robert Conquest, one of the largest foreign researchers of the history of the Soviet Union, died in California at the age of 98. It is reported by The New York Times . Robert Conquest was born in 1917 in the county of Wostershire, graduated from the College of St. Magdalena at Oxford University, where he received the degree of Bachelor and Master in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and Doctor's degree in Soviet history.

In St. Petersburg they will represent the opera of Catherine the Great © GTG Fedor Rokotov. Portrait of Catherine II. 1763 (fragment) The main event of the XVIII festival of ancient music of Earlymusic in St. Petersburg this fall will be the production of the comic opera “Woe-Bogatyr Kosmetovich”, written by Catherine II in the Commonwealth with the composer Martin-i-Soler.

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.

While in the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin continues the retrospective of Alexander Kolder , Colta . RU offers a story about the first case of private-state financing of public art in America.

Closed the news agency "Baltinfo" The Baltic news agency (Baltinfo) stopped working. All employees, with the exception of three people, were dismissed from the beginning of August by agreement of the parties. This was reported by the Internet publication "Paper" , noting that the last material in the "Article" section on the Baltinfo.ru website was published on July 21, and the news feed is not updated from July 24.

Actually, I have nothing to add to what has already been written . Except perhaps one. The outstanding Anglo-American historian Sir Robert Conquest, whose earthly life ended two days ago, lived with dignity. And not just worthy, but as much as possible. I ask this statement to perceive as an axiom, since I will neither give a biography or give a bibliography once again. Anyone can get acquainted with them himself if he has a need for that.

Gusgus will perform in Russia On August 9, in Yekaterinburg and on August 11, concerts of the Icelandic Gusgus Electronic Electronics workers will take place in Yotaspace (Moscow). Gusgus was formed in 1995 in Reykjavik, now there are five participants in it - Stefown Stefenson, Daniel Agust Haraldsson, Birgir Tourarinson, Urdür Hauconardotir and Hurogna Egilsson. Gusgus had nine studio albums, the last of them, Mexico , in 2014.

In the Urals, books published with the support of the Soros Foundation © colta.ru The Ministry of Education of the Sverdlovsk Region ordered to withdraw from school libraries the books of British historians John Kigan and Anthony Bivor, issued with the support of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

An album with the early songs of Yuri Khoy will be released © Warner Music Russia The first official edition of the songs of the leader of the Gaza Sector Yuri Khoy (Klinsky), recorded in the early 1980s, is being prepared. The premiere of the first song, “dear”, will be held on August 21, then the name of the album and a full trackist will be announced, reports Warner Music Russia .