In December, a monument to the Victory Soldier was solemnly opened in the lobby of the National Center for the Defense of the Russian Federation on the Frunze embankment. The facades of the new wings of the General Staff, completed in 2014, mimicize the Stalinist architecture of the old central building (architects Lev Rudnev and Vladimir Muntz). Fresh interiors are high -tech, in the best traditions of Hollywood cinema about the reflection of aliens attacks.

“Disagreements” publish an article by the researcher of the media and visuality of Nicholas Mirzoev “War is a culture”, published for the first time in 2009, during the war in Iraq. And although the Iraqi war is over, the problems that Mirzoev writes about, in many ways retains its relevance in connection with the events in the Middle East.

Goethe Institute in Moscow will present the exhibition "Border" © Shamil Gajidadaev / Taus Makhacheva Taus Makhacheva. Nineteen a day. 2014 Artists from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Russia and Germany will take part in the international exhibition project of the Goethe-Institute "Border", which will be held from January 31 to February 26, 2017 in the art gallery Zurab Tsereteli in Moscow.

Russian military interference in Syria openly serves the support of Assad’s regime - the initially proclaimed task of combating the terror of fundamentalists receded into the background. But neither opposition, nor, moreover, pro -government media does not focus on this fact of attention. A month ago in Moscow, a rally was supposed to take a rally against the war in Syria, organized by the Solidarity movement.

GITIS students decided to boycott classes Students of the Theater Faculty of the Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS) announced the cessation of attending lectures, seminars, tests and exams in protest against a decision on the merger of the theater and producer faculties of the university.

The last release of the “invited curator” this year. We remind you that Colta.ru at the beginning of the year invited to temporary curators over the section “Photo projects” of young and talented representatives of leading Russian photocurium, who selected the most interesting samples of modern Russian photography for publication.

The text continues the joint project of Colta.ru with the official website of Sweden in Russia Sweden.ru - “For example, Sweden” . The landscape of Swedish Lapland does not indulge in variety: a dull plateau covered with moss with rocky bald spots and stooped trees. Tundra and permafrost, occasionally diluted with lakes, with the corresponding subarctic climate, when the air temperature can fall to –40c on a polar night, and snow lies from October to May.

We are completing the publication of the project of Kirill Kobrin about the death of the post -Soviet, as we know him, who first appeared on the pages of the Opendemocracy Russia. The first part of the project refers to how Leninist ideology was destroyed in the USSR - and what replaced it. In the second - about egoism as the basis of the post -Soviet, covering nostalgia for the romanticized USSR. In the third - about how the culture of Russia and its foreign policy react to the Soviet heritage.

Putin: Directors must stake up and make films Today, December 23, at the annual large press conference in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin, at a request to release Ukrainians in Russia in Russia: “Journalists should engage in journalism, and directors to play performances and make films.” The video of this episode of the press conference is available on the Channel One website.

GITIS students arranged a performance © Culttrigger / Facebook Today, December 23, students of the Theater Faculty of the Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS) conducted a public action in connection with the decision of the leadership of the university on the merger of the theater faculty with the production. “The Student Council of the Theater Faculty, together with students of the director's faculty of GITIS, showed a performance dedicated to students.

State Duma deputies offer to fine for attacks on exhibitions and performances © Radio Liberty A group of deputies from the United Russia faction introduced a bill to the State Duma, which implies administrative liability in the form of fines and compulsory work for public desecration of works and the obstruction of their public demonstration.

Museum of Cinema will move to VDNH until the end of the year © Cinema Museum / VKontakte On December 26, the State Central Cinema Museum will enter the Pavilion No. 36 at VDNH. “In December 2016, under the curtain of the year of Russian cinema, the State Central Cinema Museum for the first time in history acquires its building,” the press service of the Gazeta.ru museum quotes.

On December 29, the International House of Music will host the Jazz Zima Manor , at which the largest jazz Openair will remind himself of Anton Belyaev and Therr Maitz with a special acoustic program and the first concert of the African singer Marie Doln for a long time, which founded the vocal group of Zap Mama. The native of Zaira, who went to Belgium because of the civil war in her homeland, Marie Doln with her group became a real sensation in the world of World Music in the nineties.