In November, in St. Petersburg, the classic of American poetry Michael Palmer came to the award of the Arkady Dragmoshchenko award. Translations of his texts made by Arkady Dragomoshchenko and Alexander Skidan were published in the series “New Poems” of the publishing house “The Word Order” . In addition, by his arrival, Michael Palmer wrote a speech-an open letter to St. Petersburg, his fragments can be read here .

2016 declared the year of Cinema in Russia, but what cultural policy this year will differ from the past, it is not entirely clear: the final list of all initiatives and events invented in the Ministry of Culture can still not assure and announce (although it is already clear that the mage studios will be given even more money, and even less for conditional arthouse and animation).

An anti -war street exhibition is being prepared in Moscow © {NOT WORLD} Street anti -war exhibition / Facebook The initiative group of Moscow and St. Petersburg artists announced an acceptance of applications for participation in the anti -war street exhibition "NOT MIR". The Facebook page reports that the acceptance acceptance will take place until February 28 at Outsideart1215@gmail.com . In December 2015, the NOT MIR exhibition was held in the center of St. Petersburg.

The Sinema Belief project continues with the online scope of one of the most noticeable documentaries last year-Alena Walnes. This is a movie about Ukraine after the Maidan, seen by the eyes of a Muscovite with opposition views. You probably heard about him, but perhaps you didn’t see it, because it was a ban on rental in Russia. Today from 11:00 to 23:00 you have the opportunity to watch this movie on colta.ru. Read how Polunina took it off.

Copyright holders require the block of domain rutracker.org © kaunt.ru The National Musical Industry Federation, uniting Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music and other companies, will seek a block of the domain Rutracker.org. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to the general director of the National Federation of the Musical Industry Leonid Agronov. “The fundamental decision is that we will seek to divide the domain rutracker.org . He said.

Roskomnadzor blocked an anti -fascist film © Berlinale Frame from the movie "Russia-88" The YouTube video hosting page with the anti-fascist film by Pavel Bardin "Russia-88" was included in the register of prohibited sites by Roskomnadzor. The basis for blocking was the decision of the Naryan-Mar City Court, which recognized as an extremist fragment of the film, in which an elderly resident of Moscow calls to expel “all blacks” from the city, CNews reports.

The publication of the Encyclopedia "Chronicle of the World Opera" was completed © "ANTEVERTA" The Yekaterinburg Publishing House of Antevert published the book “Chronicle of the World Opera (1901-2000)”, the last volume of the fundamental three-volume opera encyclopedia Mikhail Muginstein. This was reported by Vedomosti .

A 4500-year-old ship was found in Egypt © V. Dulíková / Archiv českého egyptologického ústavu During excavations near Cairo, a group of Czech archaeologists discovered the remains of an 18-meter ship, the construction time of which is dated to the middle of the third millennium BC.

"The Mating Mind" Jeffrey Miller will be published in Russian © 2001, Anchor For the first time in Russian, the work of the American evolutionary psychologist Jeffrey Miller “The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped Human Nature” will be released. Corpus Publishing House plans to publish a book in 2017.

The Russian cartoon has raised more than a billion views on YouTube © YouTube frame from the series "Masha plus porridge" of the cartoon "Masha and the Bear" More than 1.12 billion views raised on the YouTube video hosting series "Masha Plus Porridge" of the Russian cartoon "Masha and the Bear". According to Vedomosti , in the top of YouTube , where music clips dominate, this is the only cartoon and the only video from Russia.

The Moscow Museum will discuss the photo as a historical document © Igor Mukhin On Saturday, February 6, the discussion “My Moscow” will be held in the Moscow Museum of Museum, whose participants - photographers Igor Mukhin and Yuri Palmin will discuss the role of photography as a historical document, the chronicle of the city. Igor Mukhin teaches photographs and multimedia named after A. Rodchenko in the Moscow school. In 2012, his book “My Moscow.

The death sentence to Ashraf Fayyad is canceled The court of the city of Abkh in Saudi Arabia reduced the punishment for the poet Ashraf Fayyad, found guilty of faith and sacrilege for poems and statements on social networks. The death penalty was replaced by 800 lashes and 8 years in prison. This was reported by the website of PEN America magazine, which is published by the American PEN Center.

This year, Colta.ru decided to go to the experiment and invited to temporary curators over the section “Photo projects” of young and talented representatives of leading Russian photocurium . We divided the calendar year between six curators and asked them to select the most interesting samples of modern Russian photography for publication.