Allen Guttman “From the Ritual to the Record” book, the publishing house of the Gaidar Institute translated into Russian and printed 38 years after it first came out in English; Separate excerpts were published before this by the philosophical magazine "Logos". The salary of baseball players in the United States and the sacrifice of the goat before football matches in South Africa are not the plots that philosophical magazines often write about.

The festival "2morrow/tomorrow" opens On Tuesday, January 26, in the Moscow Museum, the film "Francophonia" Alexander Sokurov, the IX International Festival of the Usnemnoye Film "2morrow/Tomorrow" opens. In the main competition program of the festival of the work of filmmakers from Austria, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Russia, Slovakia, the USA and France: “Those who are falling can fly” (Jeder, Der Fällt, Hat Flügel, Austria, 2015), dir.

Saakashvili and Zhvanetsky established a literary prize © Babel Prize Monument to Isaac Babel in Odessa In Odessa, the International Literary Prize named after Isaac Babel for the best story or short story in Russian. The founders of the award - Odessa Regional State Administration (chairman - Mikhail Saakashvili) and the World Odessa Club (president - Mikhail Zhvanetsky).

The blocking of "Rutrex" began © Rutracker.org Today, January 25, the main telecommunication operators announced the start of blocking the largest Russian torrent tracker Rutracker.org. It was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to representatives of Rostelecom, MTS, Vimpelcom, Megafon and Transtelcom. On November 9, the Moscow City Court decided on a “lifelong” blocking of the “Rutrex” at the suit of the Eksmo Publishing House.

In Moscow, a lecture "Society in man: Forms of presence" will be held © Sveta Shuvaeva / Gallery "Peresvetov Lane" On Tuesday, January 26, in the Moscow Gallery of Peresvetov Lane as part of the exhibition “Only Paper. Sveta Shuvaeva ”, a teacher of the sociological faculty of the Russian State University, Alexander Roslyakov, will give a lecture“ Society in a person: forms of presence ”.

One could write a story or even the novel “Incredible Life and Adventures of the Word“ Liberal ”in Russia”. The closest thing would be to the “lieutenant of Kizhe”. Actually, this word also grew out of a mistake (in Russia, “liberalism” does not mean a set of concepts, but, above all, a way of thinking). The word made a swift career in two or three years-like Kieze, who rose to the “general”. And his career continues.

Director of the Museum of the Arctic © S-PB.in The Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) did not extend the contract with Victor Boyarsky, who had been the post of director of the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic in St. Petersburg for almost 20 years.

The exhibition program "Year of Happiness" will open in Moscow © Masha IV / Exhibition Halls of Moscow Masha Iv. Welcome to the ground. 2015 From February 6 to 29, the gallery “Here on Taganka” in Moscow will be held “legs in the water, head in the clouds”, which opens the program “Year of happiness”.

One of the most intelligent and inventive European jazzmen Eric Truffaz released with his quartet a new record “Doni Doni”, on which he turned to African music. True, there are no unbridled drive and tracks on dancing - but there is the most tender vocals of the Rokia Traore, deep -sea electric piano and a recognizable soft sound of the master’s pipes.

Before his first retrospective, Ivan Sotnikov did not live only a month. The St. Petersburg painter, performer and inventor, one of the founders of the “new artists” and the creators of the legendary “zero object”, Father John passed away on November 16, 2015 . The exhibition in the St. Petersburg New Museum opened in December, a month later.

ROC proposes to expand the school course on the basics of religion © Patriarchia.ru The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill called for expanding the teaching of the school subject "Fundamentals of religious cultures and secular ethics." This is stated in the Patriarch's video showing the participants of the XXIV international Christmas educational readings that opened today, January 25, in Moscow, Interfax reports. “This subject is still taught only in the fourth grade.

The curator of the 2017 Venice Biennale Venice The curator of the main project of the 57th Venetian Biennale of Contemporary Art, which will be held from May 13 to November 26, 2017, was appointed the chief curator of the Pompidu Center in Paris Christine Masel. It is reported by Artforum . Among the exhibitions that Christine Masel has organized in the center of Pompidu since 2000, when she became the main curator, “to dance her life.