February 29, 2016 in an interview with the magazine "Ogonek" (Kommersant Publishing House) [1] Director of the State Historical Museum Alexei Levykin spoke about the history of the museum, exhibition projects and development plans. One of the first questions of the correspondent was devoted to the interiors of the historical museum: “ - If outwardly the museum remains the same as a century and a half ago, then its interiors were restored more than once ...

Deputy Minister of Culture is accused of embezzlement at four facilities © kaluga24.tv State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga On Thursday, March 24, Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov was charged with theft of state funds allocated for restoration work at four cultural heritage sites.

All Soviet diaphylms will be posted on the Internet © RGDB Until the end of 2016, the Russian State Children's Library (RGDB) will scan and post on its website about a thousand Soviet diaphies from its collection. In the future, it is planned to digitize all 16 thousand existing diaphyls. This was reported by the Moscow Agency with reference to the deputy director for informatization and funds of the RGDB Ilya Gavrishin. “In 2016, we plan to scan at least a thousand diaphyls from our collection.

The wonderful Moscow quartet of the romantic song Hik , founded by singer Sasha Vinogradova and guitarist Yuri Churchelov, writes a new space album at Dewar's Powerhouse studio. The main news is about stars, universes and galaxies Sasha Vinogradova now sings in Russian: Sasha Vinogradova "Business" is a small journey into space. This is a finished story of two polar tracks. One is very sensual, delicate and light. I wrote words while traveling to India.

Exciting Stalinist repressions in Russia three times more since 2007 According to 26% of the recent survey of Levada Center, steel repressions were caused by political necessity. In 2007, 9% of Russians thought so. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the results of a sociological survey conducted by the Levada Center from March 11 to 14 among 1600 people in 137 settlements of 48 regions of the Russian Federation.

- The source of the current state of historical museums in Russia can be seen in perestroika. In provincial museums, there are almost almost anywhere there are no more expositions of the earlier Soviet time, but you can still find the expositions of the perestroika period. Perestroika became the time of activation of the lower socio-political life in the Soviet Union. How much did this activation affect historical museums?

A large retrospective of Antanas Dusus will be held in Moscow © Antanas Sutkus Antanas Sutus. The first Lithuanian bikers. Klaipeda. 1974 From April 7 to May 29, in the Great Hall of the Center for Photography named after the Lyumier brothers, a personal exhibition of Antanas Dusykus “Bosolia Childhood” will be held, which will present more than a hundred works created by the master of Lithuanian classical photography from 1959 to 1979.

The Eldar Ryazanov Museum will open in Moscow © Kinoknube "Eldar" evening-remembrance "My Ryazanov" in the film club "Eldar". March 15, 2016 In the near future, the Eldar Kino -Labb on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow will create a film director Eldar Ryazanov. This was stated today, March 25, at a meeting of the organizing committee of the Year of Russian Cinema, Deputy Head of the Department of Culture of Moscow Vladimir Filippov, Interfax reports.

The Swiss architect Peter Merkli is known for a very attentive attitude to the material, forms and proportions. Among his most famous projects are the La Congiunta Museum with the works of sculptor Hans Josephson in Ticino Canton, Novartis’s office building in Basel, Synthes headquarters in Zoloron. This year he came to Russia to visit the Nikola-Lenivist art park and consider the possibility of implementing his first project in Russia.

This week in Kyiv begins the Docudays UA documentary film festival. In the retrospective part of his program, one can see the Diloga thunderstorm dilogy about the strikes of the Donbass miners in the early 1990s. The films “Strike” (1989) and “Embrace” (1991) directors of the Ukrkinokhronika studio Anatoly Karasia and Viktor Shkurin - almost the only movie documents about the hundred thousandth pickets of Donetsk miners.

On April 19, the most anticipated premiere of the season with the innocent name Don Paskual will be held on the new scene of the Bolshoi Theater. The opera Gaetano Donitnitti puts the 31-year-old Novosibirsk director Timofei Kulyabin, who can not even be represented-his name after last year’s history with the Tangaiser became so well-known. Ekaterina Biryukova spoke about normal work in abnormal circumstances with Timothy Kulyabina. - What is easier to put - a well -known plot or unfamiliar?

Colta.ru launches a new project on the "planet" The public media colta.ru, which has been existing to a great extent for almost four years due to the help of its readers, has been opening a new stage of the crowdfunding campaign on the Planeta.ru website. The project "COLTA. Spring-year navigation ” is designed for 92 days, the purpose of the project is 300 thousand rubles. To support our site, you can transfer any amount to us and get to the most important page of Colta.ru - “help us” .

An educational program has been announced to the exhibition “Amo-Sil / Uralmash. Personal " The lecture of the candidate of architecture Igor Kazusya, a round table about the reconstruction of the ZIL plant and the show of Daria Khleskina’s film “The Last Limous” were included in the educational program for the exhibition “Amo-Sil / Uralmash. Personal ”in the Moscow Gallery“ On Shabolovka ”.

The Street Festival "Polytech" will be held at VDNH On May 21 and 22, the VDNKh industry Square will be held the Polytech Street Festival, which will combine multimedia art, modern theater, new scientific experiments, public art, discussion, educational and game programs. The theme of the festival is “lost world”.

The festival of activist art was canceled in Krasnodar The festival of state-owned art "Mediadar", which was supposed to be held in Krasnodar from March 25 to 27, was canceled due to the refusal of the site under pressure from law enforcement agencies.