The French composer-satire Rafael Sendo came to teach as part of the fifth International Academy of Young Composers in the city of Tchaikovsky and immediately became his own there. This is not surprising - in the atmosphere of the creative freemen, he feels like a fish in water: after all, in his youth, Sendo lived in an anarchist commune and was a real leftist. - Tell us how you were engaged in political activism. - I participated in the anarchist movement in France.

A verdict in the case of a painted star was announced Today, September 10, the Tagan court of Moscow justified four Beisjampers in the case of vandalism at the Moscow high -circuit, a star on which last summer was painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Rufer Vladimir Podrezov was found guilty and sentenced to 2 years and 3 months of a general regime colony.

Goethe-Institute will present German jazz in Moscow © Goethe-Institut Johanna Borhert Five musical groups from Germany will perform at the Cultural Center "House" at the Jazz autumn festival, which Goethe Institute in Moscow holds from September 23 to October 23. “The main task of the festival is to show the versatility of the modern German jazz, its main directions and trends,” says Astrid Vega, head of the goet's cultural programs in Moscow.

Rectors of Moscow universities were fired for refusing to increase salaries Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov fired the rector of Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography Andrei Mayorov and the rector of the Russian Chemical Technology University named after Mendeleev Vladimir Kolesnikov. The reason was the failure to comply with obligations to increase the salary of teachers.

Russian films are included in the long list of the European Film Academy Awards © European Film Awards The European Film Academy published a Long list of nominees for its annual prizes. 52 films from 36 countries were selected in it, including three paintings by Russian directors. These are the “White Nights of the Postman Alexei Tryapitsyn” by Andrei Konchalovsky, “under the electric clouds” of Alexei German Jr. and the “Correction class” Ivan I. Solidovsky .

The Venice Film Festival was supported by Oleg Sentsov © Lapressenews Today, September 10, the press service of the Venice Film Festival has spread a statement on behalf of the world film community in defense of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Russia to 20 years of colony.

I am in a state of complete confusion, shock and physical ailment in connection with the prosecutor’s refusal to institute criminal proceedings after two acts of vandalism in the arena. I, like everyone else, expected a completely different result. As far as I know, under the current legislation, the initiation of a criminal case begins with damage to state property in the amount of one thousand rubles.

Igor Zelensky will head the Bavarian state ballet © Ratm.ru The artistic director of the ballet troupe of the Moscow Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko (MAMT) Igor Zelensky from September 2016 will head the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. At the same time, he will retain the post of Skudruk Mamt, the general director of the theater Ara Karapetyan told TASS , noting that Zelensky already has experience in combining two posts.

At one of the largest theatrical forums of the country, the “real theater” in Yekaterinburg, Timofey Kulyabin played the premiere of “three sisters”. Less than a month later, the new performance of the Novosibirsk Theater “Red Torch” will be shown in Moscow at the Territory festival. About the most anticipated premiere of the start of the season - Alexei Kiselev. Caution: spoilers.

"Session" opens the season of film screenings in St. Petersburg © "Session" In the St. Petersburg cinema "Aurora", the magazine "Session" begins a series of shows "Kinopoz", the main characters of which will be film drama. On September 12, the large screen will show the restored version of “Brother” (1997)-the cult film of Alexei Balabanov, on which he worked as a director and as the author of the script.

On the eve of the festival "Island of the 90s", Colta.ru publishes materials about this interesting time. Come to our festival! The entrance is free. The program is here Writer Vladimir Voinovich was expelled from the USSR in 1980, and a year later, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, it was deprived of Soviet citizenship. Since 1980, he lived in Germany and collaborated with Radio Liberty. In 1990, after Soviet citizenship was returned, he returned to the USSR.