Members of the Russian Pen-Center called on Putin to have mercy on Oleg Sentsov © National SPILKA KINEMATOGRASTIVASTIV Ukrainian More than 80 members of the Russian Pen-Center, writers and scientists signed an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to pardon the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who was serving a 20-year term in the Russian colony. Colta.ru gives the appeal completely: President of the Russian Federation V.V.

Awarded the Translation Prize "Master" © Alexey Motorov Ksenia Staroselskaya On December 23, in the oval hall of the All -Russian State Library of Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino in Moscow hosted the ceremony of the Prize “Master 2016” by the Guild “Master of Literary Translation” for the best translations of the works of foreign literature into Russian. Ksenia Staroselskaya became the laureate of the Master Prize in the Prose nomination.

Rector GITIS met with students © Evgeny Semenov Grigory Zaslavsky On the evening of December 23, the rector of the Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS) Grigory Zaslavsky met with representatives of the Studio Faculty of Theater Council and promised to convene a scientific council in January 2017, at which the project will be discussed by the draft theater and producer faculties.