Al Jazeera America leaves the television By the end of April 2016, Al Jazeera America will stop broadcasting in the United States. According to The New York Times , the leadership of the channel explained this decision by the fact that his business model turned out to be ineffective in the conditions of an American media market. At the same time, it was announced that Al Jazeera America’s intention to expand its presence in the digital media market due to the “new global content”.

Before the New Year, the deputy chief editor of Echo of Moscow, Marina Koroleva, suddenly reported her departure from the radio station. In an interview with Colta.ru, she first talks about the reasons for the departure and her attitude to Echo. - Marina, how many years have you worked at Echo of Moscow? - Since 1994. This is incredible now - people are changing work every few years, or even months, it's normal just that. But on Echo I am not the only one.

The program of the festival "2morrow/tomorrow" is announced From January 26 to January 31, the Moscow Museum will host the IX International Festival of Modern Cinema "2Morrow/Tomorrow". He will be opened by Alexander Sokurov’s film “Francophony”. The festival program has Russian and Moscow premieres of paintings by Russian and foreign directors united by the topics “Borders” and “Other”.

Last fall, the poet Ashraf Fayyad, the Palestinian, a native of the Gaza sector, living in Saudi Arabia, was (on the second attempt) sentenced by the Saudi court to the death penalty. The previous, soft, the sentence suggested four years of imprisonment and eight hundred and whips with a whip.

Nikolai Uskov headed Russian Forbes The new editor -in -chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine was the head of the Snob project Nikolai Uskov. It is reported by Forbes.ru . The current chief of the publication Elmar Murtazaev, who held this position since January 2014, was dismissed of his own free will and leave the editorial office on February 5, Medusa reports with reference to the source in the Forbes editorial office.

In 2016, the Tretyakovka will show Caravago, Rafael, Aivazovsky and Kandinsky © State Tretyakov Gallery Ivan Aivazovsky. Meeting of fishermen on the shore of the Neapolitan Gulf. 1842 As part of a joint project with Vatican museums in 2016, the work of Caravaggio and Rafael will be presented in the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG). The Moscow Museum also plans large exhibitions of Ivan Aivazovsky and Vasily Kandinsky.

Sima Borisovna Mostinskaya (born September 8, 1928, Zlatoust of the Chelyabinsk Region) - mathematician, programmer. Born in the family of engineer B.B. Mostinsky and housewives E. Yanzen. In 1946, she entered the Mehmat Moscow State University, which she graduated in 1951. In 1951, she married the mathematician Alexander Pavlovich Lavut (1929-2013), later one of the active participants in the human rights movement in the USSR.

The Gelikon-Ooper will take place Polina Weidman's Lecture “Real Tchaikovsky” © TV channel "Russia-Culture" On January 19, in the Pokrovsky Hall of the Moscow Helikon Opera Theater, Doctor of Arts Polina Weidman will give a lecture “Real Tchaikovsky”. Polina Weidman is a leading researcher at the State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve P.I.

The restoration of the old English court in Moscow is over © Regina Lukashina / Tourblogger.ru On January 19, a branch of the Moscow Museum will open after restoration, the old English courtyard on Varvarka-a monument of history and architecture of the XV-XVII centuries, the oldest official representative office of a foreign power in Moscow.

ZAZ goes to Russia © ZAZ In April, the French singer Isabel Zheffrea, known under the stage name ZAZ, will perform in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Its concerts will take place on April 12 at Crocus City Hall (Moscow) and April 13 at the Oktyabrsky BKZ (Petersburg). ZAZ is one of the most popular French performers outside of France. More than three million of its records have been sold all over the world.

It all starts in bed. Over the bed, a window, in the window of the sea. A lonely warm tube house, around - gray curtains of grass and cold, almost Kricanovsky Ultramarine of the sky and waters. In the house (Normandy, the dead season), a tired pair (Alexander Molochnikov) and Alexander (Daria Nayshuller), sleeping in the same bed, are like to save on heating; Here he is, a typical slowly dying marriage of little feeling people.

In Russia, Germany and the USA will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Mandelstam © Mandelstami Society On January 15, on the day of the 125th birthday of Osip Mandelstam, the poet’s anniversary will be celebrated in Moscow, Vladivostok, Heidelberg and Washington. According to Mandelstam society, in Moscow at the Literary Institute named after A.M.

The 9th experimental area of ​​Cheremushka is the most famous microdistrict and the prototype of all future microdistricts. What exactly this experimentality was, how the era of industrial housing construction began in the USSR and what was the importance of typical panel buildings that appeared on the site of wooden houses, says the historian of architecture, a researcher at the Institute of Modernism Nikolai Erofeev.

Formally, the death of Pierre Bouleza puts an end to the history of the musical twentieth century. Having survived for twenty-six years, Luigi Nono, for thirteen-Luciano Berio, ten Liegoti for ten, for nine-the Karlhainz Shtokhausen, the last of the great generation of the composers of the second avant-garde, born in the mid-1920s and determined the musical landscape of post-war Europe.

Alan Ricman died © Radiotimes Today, January 14, British actor and director Alan Ricman died in London at the age of 69. It is reported by ABC News . Alan Rikman was born in 1946 in London, studied at the School of Art and Design in Chelsea and at the Royal College of Arts. Having worked for some time a designer, at the age of 26 he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.