George Michael died © Chris Radburn / Pa Wire On December 25, a British pop singer and songwriter George Michael died in his house in Oxfordshire at the age of 53. According to BBC , citing a musician agent, heart failure was the cause of death. George Michael (real name Yorgos Kiriacos Panayotu) was born in 1963 in London in the family of Greek Kipriot and the British, in 1982 he created Andrew Ridge Wham with his school friend! . In the spring of 1984, the singles WHAM!

Scythian gold will be exposed in the historical museum in Kyiv © Allard Pierson Museum The Scythian gold collection, which was part of the exhibition “Crimea: Gold and Black Sea Secrets” in the Netherlands and transferred to Ukraine by decision of the Amsterdam court, will be exhibited in the historical museum in Kyiv.

One hundred and thirty years ago, on the stage of the Korsh Theater, where today the Theater of Nations shows the prime minister of Chekhovsky “Ivanov”, the first performance of this play took place. Over the past time, Ivanov has not been to - Russian Hamlet, scoundrel, just a depressant. But never once he became a modern official or an entrepreneur of the middle hand.

"Roddinda" and "Traviata" won the Casta Diva Award © Damir Yusupov / Bolshoi Theater Scene from the play "Roddinda" Casta Diva winners were announced for 2015 and 2016. The “Event of the Year” nomination won the Handel’s opera “Roddinda” (2015) of the Bolshoi Theater in the production of Christopher Muldes and Richard Jones and the opera Verdi “Traviata” (2016) of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater Cuorentsis and Robert Wilson.

Each, who seized the times of the USSR at least some side, has come to face the widespread image of the war-and we will always learn a certain canon, without even comprehending the stories of the fine art of that time: one “military” cinema to touch this canon is quite enough. And sometimes it seems to me that most artists who wrote military plots spent more in cinemas or at TVs refracting military history, or leafed through newspapers of that time, studied the photo chronicle.

"Pioneer" will show the film "My friend Dr. Lisa" On Wednesday, December 28, in the Moscow Cinema Pioneer there will be a special show of the documentary film by Shahverdiev’s documentary “My Friend Dr. Lisa” (2010) dedicated to the victims of the plane crash over the Black Sea. Start at 19:10, the entrance is free. Tickets can be obtained at the box office of the cinema from 18:30. Documentary film by Shahverdiev “My Friend Dr. Lisa” about Dr.

Felix Krivin died On December 24, a writer and poet Felix Krivin died in Beer-Shehel in Israel at the age of 88. This was announced on his Facebook by the writer Lev Lucker. Felix Davidovich Krivin was born in 1928 in Mariupol, in 1945 after the evacuation he moved to Izmail, worked as a motorist on a self -propelled barge, a night corrector in the newspaper Poddunayskaya Pravda, where his poems were first published, the radio journalist of the Izmail Regional Radio Committee.

Ivan Ilyin is the most cited philosopher of the Putin state. Over the past decade, his statements have been abundantly represented in public speeches by officials, school courses of social studies and educational exhibitions on the restoration of continuity with “historical Russia”. The heritage of Ilyin, which the Rector of the Sadovnichy Moscow State University once called the “living water resurrecting the nation” , was tensely studying the numerous departments of Russian philosophy.

George Michael was born a second time at Christmas 2011. In November, a 48-year-old British artist picked up a severe form of pneumonia and was hospitalized at the Austrian clinic two hours before the concert with a symphony orchestra. After spending three terrible weeks in a hospital bed, George Michael managed to survive a clinical death.

The antimilitarian number “Disagreements” after polls about the past (about the First World War and Civil Wars in Russia) and the present (about the war in Syria) proceeds to a survey about the future - about the Third World War. What is the “third world”: fantasy, real threat, incorrect use of the term?

In Moscow, a concert of memory of those killed in the Tu-154 disaster will be held Today, on December 26, in memory of those who died in a plane crash in the Black Sea in the Rachmanin’s concert hall, the State Academic Symphony Capella of Russia under the direction of Valery Polyansky will fulfill Mozart’s “Requiem”. Thus, Interfax reports, the Moscow Philharmonic has amended its post, abolishing the previously planned execution of the Silva operetta. The start of the concert at 19:00.