"Russian booker" announced a short list Today, on October 9, at a press conference in Moscow, the chairman of the jury of the Russian Buker literary prize, the writer Andrei Hair called the finalists of 2015.

This time no surprises happened. Something that many had expected for several years happened, but that for some unknown reasons could not happen in any way. On the eight of October, the secretary of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy announced the award of the Nobel Prize in literature for 2015 67-year-old Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich.

The second festival of medieval music Musica Mensurata will be held from October 11 to 25 at the Cathedral of the SVV. Peter and Paul. His topic is “the music of borders”, in the poster - three concerts with mysterious names. The artistic director of the festival Danil Ryabchikov spoke about the guests and program, the life of medieval musicians and the problems of Russian media. - If I am not mistaken, is your festival of medieval music the only one in Russia?

The state will reduce financing RT, Channel One and TASS © Addison Godel / Flickr The draft budget for 2016 provides for reducing the cost of supporting the media by 1.1 billion rubles. In particular, in comparison with 2015, the financing of the RT channel, the first channel and the TASS information agency will be significantly reduced. According to Vedomosti , in general, 80.2 billion rubles are allocated to support the media in 2016.

A common expression states that there was no sex in the Soviet Union. But sex, of course, was at home, with detached curtains and often in the light turned off. It was almost not noticeable in public life, in the behavior of Soviet people and in official mass culture. Even hints of love were foggy. “In each line, only the point after the letter L”-as it was sung in the famous song of the 1960s, possibly for the passage of the conspiracy of the named “eastern” .

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.

Announced the Nobel Prize laureate © Nobelprize.org The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize of 2015 by the quartet of national dialogue in Tunisia for a “decisive contribution to the construction of pluralistic democracy after the“ Zhasmin Revolution ”of 2011. This is stated in the decision of the Nobel Committee, published on the official website of the Nobel Prize .

Matt Taylor, Nelly Bin Hayun and Obri Di Gray will come to the 360 ​​° festival © Polytechnic Museum Matt Taylor To the V International Festival of Cinema about science and technology "360 °", which will be held in Moscow from October 21 to 29, the Polytechnic Museum has prepared a discussion program. Among its participants Astrophysicist Matt Taylor, designer and director Nelly Ben Hayun and wrestler with the aging of Obri Di Gray.

UNESCO may not let Prince Vladimir to go to Borovitskaya Square The opening of the monument to Prince Vladimir on Borovitskaya Square, appointed on November 4, can be postponed, since the resolution of UNESCO is necessary for the installation of the monument. This was announced on a round table in the Moscow City Duma, held on Thursday, October 8, Kommersant reports.

On October 9, the exhibition “Dialogues of Light and Sound” will open in the GTSIA, as part of the “See Sound” festival, in which many artists from around the world will take part. Among them is the OMG duet (Office of Massive Goods), consisting of Swiss architect Florian Schweicera and Alexandra Dobrovolskaya. Colta.ru talked with Schweitzer about the installation of Echo and about light and sound in modern architecture. - What is your ECHO installation?

At the beginning of the week, a new magazine appeared on the Web about the policy and society “Contrapunct” . Its editor -in -chief, political scientist and journalist Maria Lipman, who previously headed the well -known in intellectual circles, Pro et Contra, told COLTA . Ru about his new edition. - A year has passed since Pro et Contra , which you edited 10 years, closed. Now are you somehow participating in the work of the Moscow Center of Carnegie or his site? - No.