The Enlightener Award announced a short list Today, October 5, at a press conference in Moscow, the names of the finalists of the Enlightener Award in 2016 were announced for the best popular science book in Russian. The short list included 8 books (4-in the nomination “Natural Sciences”, 4-in the nomination “Humanities”). Short list of the Enlightener Prize of the 2016 season: Nomination "Natural Sciences" Vladimir Dinets - “Dragon songs.

"Memorial" asks to support the action "Return of the Names" The International Human Rights Society "Memorial" conducts a campaign of folk financing of the "Return of Names" by Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow. Since 2007, the Memorial has been organizing on the eve of the Victims of Political Repressions the city action “Return of Names” . Every year on October 29, from 10 a.m.

Declared a short list of "Russian Boker" Today, on October 5, the jury of the 25th season of the Russian Busher literary prize was named a short list of works applying for a prize at the end of the year. According to Interfax with reference to the chairman of the jury, poet and prose writer Olesya Nikolaev, they were selected from among 73 nominated works.

International Memorial Program until October 15 © International Memorial The international historical, human rights and charitable society "Memorial" announced the program of events for October 5-15, 2016.

A presented film award "Resonance" The films "Rawning Union" by Mikhail Radutsky and the "country of Oz" Vasily Sigarev became the first laureates of the new Association of Independent Film Journalists at the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation. The award took place on October 4 at the closing ceremony of the first Yalta International Film Festival "Eurasian Bridge", TASS reports.

For the first time in St. Petersburg, the festival of modern photography "Presence" will be held © Photosode From October 7 to 9, the Foundation of the Photode Department will hold the first festival of modern photography “Presence” in St. Petersburg.

At the end of September , Yuri Zlotnikov died . The editor of the magazine "Disagreements" Gleb Zapenko explains why this artist is so important. Yuri Zlotnikov was one of the last modernists. What does it mean? The combination of cybernetics and painting in his early works (“signaling system”, “Geiger counter) was aimed at searching for a universal - universal language, a universal model of being.

Astronomy will be returned to school due to the second foreign language © Press Service of the President of Russia The Minister of Education Olga Vasilieva said that the training hours for teaching astronomy, which will be returned to the school curriculum, should be taken from the second foreign language. “We have 250 hours in the second foreign language. The second language, if this is not a language school, in many ways profanity. God forbid that we have one foreign one well taught.

Svetlana Gannushkina and New Gazeta are nominated for the Nobel Prize of the World The chairman of the Civil Assistance Committee and the head of the Migration and Law network, the Memorial Human Rights Center, Svetlana Gannushkina and the editors of Novaya Gazeta were nominated for the 2016 Nobel Prize of 2016. This was reported by the site "Civil Assistance" . “Experts highly assess the chances of Russian nominees to win. - The message says.

Russian libraries have created crowdfunding service The Planeta.ru crowdfunding platform, the Russian Library Association (RBA) and the Russian School Library Association (RSHBA) launched a project in support of the Russian libraries "Bibliurodin" - a service based on the principles of folk financing. Anyone can become a philanthropist in the project and issue subscriptions to popular science periodicals as a gift to Russian libraries.

Chulpan Khamatova became deputy artistic director of the theater "Contemporary" © Sergey Petrov / Theater "Contemporary" Chulpan Khamatova in the play "Two on a swing" The leading actress of the Moscow Contemporary Theater Chulpan Khamatova will be deputy artistic director of the theater for general issues. This was announced today, on October 5, at the internal meeting of the troupe, the artistic director of “Contemporary” Galina Volchek, MK reports.

The World of the Wild West / "Westworld" October 2, HBO “Our show is the next chapter of human history in which we cease to be the main characters,” says Jonathan Nolan, creator of Westworld . His project was based on the 1973 Michael Cruton film with the same name - it was about the entertainment park of the future “Western World”, a kind of Disneyland for adults, where the Androids were tired of dancing, suffering and dying for the fun of solid gentlemen and took up weapons.