A monument to Eldar Ryazanov will be erected in Samara In 2016, in Samara, where Eldar Ryazanov was born, it is planned to erect a monument to the director. This was reported by the Russian News Service with reference to the State Duma deputy from the Samara region, the co -chair of the Cultural Samara Organizing Committee Alexander Khinshtein. “I do not exclude that next year the sculpture of memory of Eldar Ryazanov will appear in Samara.

Artdokfest received a warning from the Ministry of Culture © Radio Liberty Vitaly Mansky The Ministry of Culture sent a letter to the Festival of Documentary Cinema Film Festival, in which the organizers are warned of liability for showing films without a rental certificate. The warning was received on the opening day of the festival, Vitaly Mansky, president of Artdokfest, told Novaya Gazeta .

Momoma holds an exhibition about new and old media in the Internet © MMOMA ROSTAN TAVASIEV. From the project "Everything is complicated." 2013–2014 On December 16, the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA) will open the exhibition “One inside the other. The art of new and old media in the era of high -speed Internet.

Winners of the reader vote are identified "Big Book" © colta.ru Today, December 9, the reader vote of the National Literary Prize "Big Book" ended. The most votes were received by the books “Zuleikha Open eyes” Guzeli Yakhina, “Nine nineties” by Anna Matveeva and “Candle” Valery Lotuhi. Voting took place on three sites - Litres, the Bookmate electronic library and Readrate 's readers' service, the Prize website reports.

Artificial intelligence is, first of all, the hero of the same plot in a different bad movie. The robot or supercomputer conceived the evil, gets out of control, holds the throat with the metal hand of its creator, pronounces dramatic monologues and is going to kill all people. If you are older than 18, it is unlikely that such a scenario pops up in your head first when you think about different possible troubles of the next year.

December 31, the Smolny Cathedral will go to the ROC © Al Greening / Flickr The Smolny Voskresensky Cathedral, which is now part of the State Museum-Monetor "Isaacievsky Cathedral" ("Museum of the Four Cathedrals"), will be legally transferred to the St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church on December 31. This was reported by "Echo of Moscow" with reference to the leadership of the museum.

Our project "Cinema Believe" continues! On December 13 at 15:00 in the Fitil cinema (12 Frunze embankment, 12) we will watch a film from the competitive program of the most bold, which means the most important film festival of the country “Artdokfest” - “self -nominated” Julia Kiseleva. The heroine of the film is a civil activist who, in the wake of protests of 2011-2012, is self -moving in the municipal elections, wins - and undergoes different modifications within the power system.

In the Soviet Union, Grisha Bruskin became famous thanks to the first Moscow auction Sotheby's 1988 - then his famous work “Fundamental Lexicon” was sold to a German collector for a record $ 416 thousand. Twenty-seven years after his first success, Bruskin, who has been living between Moscow and New York for many years, is still one of the most famous Russian artists in the West.

The state is going to control messengers © Akket.com Roskomnadzor developed a bill regulating in Russia the work of messaging services. Under the new law, the developers of such services will be able to work in Russia only under an agreement with communication operators, and Roskomnadzor will have to be notified of their work.

One of our favorite Kiev groups , playing in the self -built -in style "New Twist", with some guide prepared a Christmas gift to readers of COLTA . Ru . This is almost “Montipayton” video for the song “Jesus” (just like that, in the Old Believer manner), in which the Savior shocks the medieval knights with a bicycle and a smartphone. The group did not want to offend the feelings of believers - she could explain everything.

Russian iTunes called the best music of 2015 © Hozier / YouTube frame from the clip "Take Me to Church" The Itunes online store summed up the outgoing year, compiling the rating of the most popular songs and albums in Russia. In the first category, the track “Take ME To Church” of the Irish artist Hozier was the best, in the second - the soundtrack for the film “Fifty Shades of Gray”. TOP-20 best-selling songs in Russian iTunes in 2015: "Take me to church" - Hozier "Daring" ( feat.