Died guitarist Jefferson Airplane Paul Kantner © 1975, Grunt Records On January 28, in San Francisco, at the age of 74, the American rock musician Paul Kantner, the guitarist and one of the founders of the Jefferson Airplane, died. According to Rolling Stone , a few days ago the musician suffered a heart attack.

Awarded the Nos-2015 Prize © Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation / Facebook On Thursday, January 28, in the Stanislavsky Electrotheater in Moscow, the Laureates of the Literary Prize "Nos-2015" ("New Literature") were announced.

Jacques Rightt died © Unifrance Films Today, January 29, at the age of 87, film director Jacques Rightt, one of the founders of the new wave of French cinema, died. It is reported by Le Monde . Jacques Revette was born in 1928 in Ruan, in the late 1940s he moved to Paris, where in the film club of the Latin quarter he met Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Trufffo and Eric Romer. They became the founders of a new wave, which, according to Truffo, was born precisely thanks to Ravetta.

Today, January 29, is World Mobilization Day against the threat of nuclear war. 12 years ago I was in the DPRK, I shot the plot under the Pacific program for the M endeons there. I was struck by the fact that all the streets of Pyongyang were forced by Billbors, where instead of familiar advertising, military posters hung, on which huge fearless North Koreans cut small cowardly Americans into different ways.

Tretyakov Gallery arranges "Night Serov" © Maria Zakharova / "VKontakte" On January 30, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG) will hold the “Serov Night” campaign - the cash desks in the GTG on the Crimean shaft will work on this day to the last visitor.

Verena Steussinger, Joel Laszlo / "Basel Days in Nizhny Novgorod" The Swiss writers Verena Steussinger and Joel Laszlo will take part in the Festival "Days of Basel in Nizhny Novgorod", which will be held from January 29 to February 4. The Russian-Swiss Festival "Basel Days" will be held in Nizhny Novgorod for the second time. The cultural program has literary readings, film examinations, discussions, lectures, excursions for Swiss guests and much more.

RSG will allow photographs of books © Russian state library / Flickr According to the new rules that are introduced in the Russian State Library (RSL) from February 1, visitors will be allowed to photograph books. “Since February 1, new rules are finally allowed to photograph the necessary books. - informed Interfax in the RSL.

Today, January 29, in Nizhny Novgorod, the Swiss-Russian festival “Days of Basel” will open , at which the writer Veren Steussinger will present her book “Trees remain”. The presentation will be attended by her husband Jurgen, who has become the main character of the book - she represents a piercing description of the trip to the places of his military childhood, from which he had only a few photographs.

Blocking sites with free films and music do not like half of Russians More than half - 51% - participants in a survey conducted in mid -January by the Public Opinion with the Foundation, believe that Roskomnadzor should not block sites that provide free access to films, music and books. It is reported by Interfax . 22% of respondents spoke out in favor of blocking sites with free content, another 27% found it difficult to answer.

The Brikston hooligans from the Fat White Family have just released the album “Songs for OUR Mothers”, confirming them with the Renom of the most shocking rock band Britain-the contradictory record ends with a tearful ballad, in which Hitler panting in the bunker fits firmly with Goebbels. Lyudmila Pogodina met with musicians in front of their Berlin concert to discuss how far they can go in their provocations. Pete, the Fat White Family tour manager, went down the stairs.

The news of the death of the “father of artificial intelligence” Marvin Minski found me to write the text about why children are forbidden to show a finger - and why it is actually showing a finger and even necessary. Believe it or not, but I was just thinking about whether to mention the ideas of Marvin Minsk in that text or it would already be too much for the book, which should be clear to ordinary parents, and not to professors of cognitive sciences. Okay, let's start with a simple one.

VKontakte legalizes a quarter of Russian pop music © Securitylab.ru “The First Musical Publishing House” (PMI) agreed with the social network “VKontakte” on the legalization of content. PMMs controls about a quarter of the market of copyright and related rights to Russian pop music. This was reported by "Vedomosti" with reference to the co -founder of PMI Maxim Dmitriev.

Kekhman was ordered to restore the historical appearance of the Novosibirsk opera © Novosibirsk Photoblog / YouTube Repair of the Facade Ngatoib. August 2015 The Department of State Protection of Cultural Heritage Supervision of the Novosibirsk Region issued the director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater (Ngatoib) by Vladimir Kekhman's order to restore the historical appearance of the interiors and facade of the theater by September 1.