The court in Vladivostok decided to destroy the Bible © Dennis Snitskiy / Facebook The judge of the world section No. 4 of the Leninsky Judicial District of Vladivostok issued a decision on confiscation and destruction of 40 copies of the Bible belonging to the Christian organization “Army of Salvation”.

The consideration of the dissertation of the Medinsky dissovetor of Moscow State University was postponed © OWEN KN / Flickr The first meeting of the dissertation council in the case of the doctoral dissertation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky was postponed for an indefinite period without explaining the reasons, planned for today, on December 27.

In 2016, 1300 monuments to Lenin were demolished in Ukraine © 061.ua dismantling the monument to Lenin in Zaporozhye, March 2016 Over the past year, pursuing the Law on Decommunization in Ukraine, 1320 monuments to Lenin were dismantled and 51,493 streets were renamed. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. “In Ukraine, 2389 monuments and commemorative signs were dismantled, of which 1320 are in honor of Lenin.

In memory of those who died in a plane crash, Verdi's "Requiem" © Moscow State Academic Philharmonic December 29 on the stage of the P.I. Tchaikovsky in Moscow the choir and the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater under the direction of Valery Gergiev will take part in the performance of the “Requiem” by Giuseppe Verdi. The concert is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Tu-154 aircraft catastrophe over the Black Sea.

Suddenly, friends and some authors of the Domestic Notes magazine, which had closed almost two years ago, publicly (in the FB) asked me an alarming question: what did this suddenly hung on your site? There really was something-an announcement of the beginning of a new life of a new incarnation of a magazine closed two years ago. More precisely, the questions sounded like this: is it true that the editor -in -chief of the new “Oz” is a patent attorney?

For a week - from December 29 to January 5 - the large hall of the Moscow Conservatory will become, as in the old days, the most popular site of the capital: the New Year in the Conservatory festival will be held there with the participation of Juan Diego Flores, Ramon Vargas, David Fera and Sarah Chang. In the Christmas Christmas Eve, shortly before departure from Pennsylvania to Moscow, Miss Cang answered the questions of Yaroslav Timofeev.

"Christmas, again" ("Christmas, Again") director Charles In the cinema A real masterpiece of the new American Indie-Kino, two years later (the film was shot in 2014) miraculously reached the Russian rental (albeit extremely limited). A sad bearded young man (Kentucker Odli) in a stupid hat and no less stupid down jacket sells Christmas trees, spending the night in a trailer on the Brooklyn Mostova. The guy’s name is ...

- Is it true that for five years you sold Christmas trees to make a film? - Yes, that is! When the idea of ​​the film came to my mind, I realized that I would need to learn a lot about the sale of Christmas trees.

Kurentzis and Musicaeterna will perform Cinderella Prokofiev in Moscow On Wednesday, December 28, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory performed by the Musicaeterna orchestra, under the direction of Theodore Krentzis, the music of the Ballet “Cinderella” by Sergey Prokofiev. “Cinderella” was conceived by Prokofiev shortly after his ballet “Romeo and Juliet” was staged in the Kirov Theater.

To show performances in cinema halls will require rental certificates © Sim Canetty-Clarke According to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, when broadcasting performances in cinema halls, it will now be necessary to receive rental certificates. Decree “On Amending the Rules for Issues, Refusal to issue and withdraw a rental certificate for the film” dated December 21, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

Triennale of contemporary art will take place in Nepal © Mark Dionne / Flickr On March 24, 2017, in the capital of Nepal Kathmandu, the triennale of contemporary art will begin for the first time. According to Artforum in Triennal, organized by the Siddhartha Art Fund, more than 50 artists from 25 countries of the world will take part. Triennale's theme is “My city, my studio / my city, my life.” Project participants will explore the mental relations of art and the city.

The Moscow School was canceled in the Moscow School at the request of the parents The Council of School No. 2065 of the city of Moscow agreed to cancel the teaching in the fifth grade of the course "Istoks", to which the parents of the fifth graders previously complained to the General Prosecutor's Office. According to the portal “Such things” , instead of “Sources” it is proposed to teach the subject “Sairy ethics”.