Sats Theater opens the anniversary season On August 27, the 50th season begins in the Moscow State Academic Children's Musical Theater named after Natalia Sats. A series of performances on the best scenes of Moscow will be devoted to the anniversary; almost every month, premiere performances of performances will be held in the theater.

From the author This is a simple and terrible story about the liberated - four girls from Nigeria, who were in Russia in sexual slavery. Russia now takes fifth place in the world ranking of slavery. Their stories, like the stories of hundreds of other Nigeries brought to our country with deceit, are similar as if written under a carbon copy. This is not surprising: criminal groups work according to the debugged schemes.

The summer book festival will be held in Kazan © Dmitry Chirkov / Geometria.ru From August 28 to 30, the Center for Modern Culture “Change” will hold in Kazan the III festival of intellectual literature. According to the organizers , within three days, more than forty events will take place at three lecture sites of the “shift”.

Forty days already with us are not Ekaterina Yuryevna Genieva. They talked and wrote a lot about Ekaterina Yuryevna. But it was so arranged that it was simply impossible to lie or speak badly about her. Among all the completely fair words were the words about her mission, her courage, her talents. The loss is really irreparable. She has no replacement. Yes, and replacement is impossible.

Lev Durov died © uf.ru Today, August 20, in Moscow, at the age of 83, the theater and cinema actor, theater director and teacher Lev Durov died. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the artist’s family. On August 7, he was taken to the hospital in serious condition, doctors diagnosed him with severe pneumonia.

The set of students for advanced training courses of the school "What to do" is completed © School of involved art what to do / Facebook The school of involved art “what to do” launches autumn advanced training courses for young artists, performers and researchers of modern art “artistic research - profanity or method?”. Applications are accepted until August 23.

The rector of the St. Petersburg Conservatory was fired On Wednesday, August 19, by order of the Ministry of Culture, Mikhail Gantwarg was fired from the post of rector of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The director of the Rimsky-Korsakov music school Alexei Vasiliev was appointed the new rector.

Novosibirsk demands to fire Kekhman from the opera theater The initiative group of residents of Novosibirsk began collecting signatures under an open letter with a demand to dismiss Vladimir Kekhman from the post of director of the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (Ngatoib).

The keeper of the monuments was executed in Palmyra © Al Masdar News The militants of the “Islamic state of Iraq and Levant” (ISIS, a terrorist organization prohibited in Russia) executed the keeper of the monuments of ancient Palmyra Khalid Asaad.