Cohen brothers will first shoot the series © NME The first television series in the filmography of Joel and Itan Cohen will be Western "Ballad about Basteer Skraggs". According to Variety , it will be a mini-series, i.e. The number of series is determined in advance. The brothers have already written a script based on their original idea. Details of the plot are not disclosed, but it is known that six different stories will be intertwined in it.

For two years in Russia, at the request of the prosecutor's office, 1,200 sites were blocked © Press Service of the President of Russia Yuri Chaika at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Moscow, Kremlin, October 2016 According to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, since 2014 in Russia, at the request of prosecutors, access to 1200 sites has been stopped.

Jah Jai Johanson will perform in Moscow © Frédérique ménard-aubin / fijm On January 26, a concert of the Swedish singer and producer Jay Jaja Johanson will be held at the Moscow club Yotaspace. Already his debut record, “Whiskey” (1996), on which the trip-hop compositions with jazz elements were recorded, aroused great interest among critics and students. Since then , Jai Johanson has recorded nine studio albums.

Ukraine forbade "rain" © Rain TV channel The National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine ordered providers within a month to stop the relay of the Russian Rain TV channel. According to Interfax, citing a statement by a member of the National Council on Television on Television and Radio Broadcasting Sergei Kostinsky, in 2016 the regulator repeatedly recorded violations of Ukrainian legislation by the Rain channel.

In December, the Doglobons Book, the Third Collection of Stories by George (Garik) Osipov, writer, translator, songwriter, artist, better known as Count Hortza-the creator and leading radio projects of the 1990s and early 2000s, “Transylvania Brothers” and “The School of Cadaurus”, was published in the Moscow publishing house. Evgeny Domrachev talked to the author.

The first films of the Berlinale competitive program were announced © International FilmfestSpiele Berlin Official poster of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (Fragment) Films created by filmmakers from Brazil, Germany, Spain, South Korea and Japan were included in the competitive program of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, which will be held from February 9 to 19.

An official document on the transfer of the St. Isaac Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church has been published © Getbg.net The website of the Committee on Property Relations of St. Petersburg posted an order according to which the Isaacievsky Cathedral in the first half of 2019 will be transferred to the gratuitous use of the Russian Orthodox Church for 49 years.

Govorukhin opposed the transfer of the St. Isaac's Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church © Party "United Russia" Today, January 12, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Stanislav Govorukhin spoke out against the decision of the St. Petersburg authorities on the transfer of the St. Isaac's Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church. “I am against such an initiative. If there were no services, this is one thing.

An exhibition of graphics by Eduard Steinberg will be held in MMOMA © MMOMA From February 6 to March 19, the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA) on the Gogolevsky Boulevard will host an exhibition of graphics by Eduard Steinberg (1937-2012), dedicated to the 80th birthday of the artist.