Glaciation, that is, the study of glaciers, polar hats and other ice and snow on Earth, few are associated with especially hot spores (the maximum - with such boring jokes as this). The topic does not have: what will the editorials of newspapers shout about-that the glacier has advanced two meters in ten years?

Presidential adviser Tolstoy believes that Medinsky should resign © Press Service of the President of Russia Today, March 23, Vladimir Tolstoy, adviser to the President of Russia in Culture, said that he would resign on the site of the Minister of Culture of Vladimir Medinsky in connection with the corruption scandal in the Ministry of Culture.

The Moscow Department of Culture was banned to dismiss museum directors © Department of Foreign Economic and International Relations of the city of Moscow Alexander Kibovsky Leonid Pechatnikov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow, temporarily forbade the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Alexander Kibovsky to make personnel decisions without agreement with him. Since the beginning of the month, Kibovsky fired eight directors of Moscow museums.

In the USA, a record level of vinyl sales has been registered since 1988 © The Vinyl Factory Vinyl records in the United States in 2015 were sold at $ 416 million - this is 32% more than in 2014, and the highest rate since 1988. At the same time, sales of the CDs fell by 17%, reports The Financial Times with reference to the report of the American Association of Soundwriters ( RIAA ).

The second number of “Disagreements” was completely devoted to institutional criticism and cultural policy. Having focused on major institutions and museums, the authors of the articles revealed the problems of the macro level: state programs, problems of national representation and the fate of museums in today's ideological climate. However, such a placement of accents seriously deforms the look at the institutions that I would like to defend.

Established a prize Boris Nemtsov © BORIS NEMTSOV Foundation for Freedom / Facebook The Boris Nemtsov Foundation for freedom announced the establishment of the annual prize of Boris Nemtsov for defending democratic values ​​in Russia. “We annually reward one person for exceptional courage in the struggle for democratic values ​​and human rights and for free Russia. The prize can be awarded to public figures, journalists, cultural figures, ”the fund said in a message on the fund's website .

Anton Nosik was questioned in the publication of the blog © Facebook On Tuesday, March 22, blogger Anton Nosik was questioned as a suspect in the case of stimulation of hatred or enmity in connection with the publication on the Internet. The Investigative Committee of Russia started a case under Art.

- Now the rhetoric of marketing and management has become normative in the work of cultural institutions in Russia, and in response an ironic reaction of irritation already arises. But how much is rhetoric on innovation, interdisciplinary, interactivity, efficiency behind such ubiquity? - The changes are serious. But let's start not very serious. When looking at the reports of Russian cultural institutions, one can often find efforts on mimicry.

Each number of “Disagreements” is a polyphonic body of texts designed to cause discussions and disputes. To emphasize the integrity of this case and recall that “Disagreements” are not only a series of materials on the network, but also a conceptual journal, we specially turn out the number and draw it up for downloading and free distribution in PDF , Mobi and Epub formats. Here you can download the second issue of the magazine - “Museums.

The London rock band Kula Shaker is one of the main characters of Brit Pop, who in the 1990s were popular at least the “Holy Trinity” Oasis, Blur and Pulp. Their debut album “K” became one of the bestsellers of 1996, not only in Britain, but also in the States, despite the fact that the version of the new British rock proposed by the group sounded extremely exotic-they played neopsyedelia involved in the rhythms and melodies of Indian music and texts on Sanskrit.

The law on protective zones of cultural monuments has been adopted The State Duma in the second and third readings adopted a bill prohibiting the construction of cultural heritage in protective zones.

Vladimir Aristov became a laureate of the Difference Prize © 2012, Dmitry Kuzmin / New Literary Map of Russia The poetic prize “Difference” in 2016 was awarded to Vladimir Aristov for the book “In our world with a notebook (simple -minded verses)”. This decision was made by the jury of the “Difference” prize as part of the founders of Igor Gulin, Kirill Korchagin, Denis Larionov and Lev Okorin, as well as the invited member of the jury Alexei Konakov.

An announced collection of funds for a documentary about Natalia Gorbanevskaya © Lev Schlosberg A crowdfunding campaign is held on the Internet in support of the production of a documentary about the poet and participant in the dissident movement Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936-2013). “We were friends with Natalia Gorbanevskaya over the past four years of her life.

The film "Country Oz" was awarded for the best script of 2015 On Tuesday, March 22, in the center named after the Armed Forces. Meyerhold in Moscow hosted the ceremony of the scenario prize "Word" named after Valentina Chernykh in 2015. In the nomination "The best scenario of a full -length playing film", the award was awarded to Vasily Sigarev and Andrei Ilyenkov for the film "Country of Oz".

The museum program of the Charitable Fund Vladimir Potanin began with the invention of the format. More precisely, with chewing for the Russian audience thought that the museum can and should be perceived as a place of collective production of culture, and not as a warehouse or archive. To date, we can already say that in the minds of the Russian museum community it has settled largely thanks to the fund.