A book fair will be held in the Garage © Museum of Modern Art "Garage" On May 20 and 21, the Museum of Modern Art “Garage” in Moscow will be held by the Second International Fair of Books on the Arts of the Garage Art Book Fair, which will present more than 40 Russian and foreign publishers.

Noginsk takes a jazz festival © Sugar Jazz Music Fest 2017 Jazz Professional Big Band, orchestra of the Noginsk municipal district under the direction of Alexander Dubrovsky On April 29, in the Park of Culture and Rest in Noginsk near Moscow, the Jazz Jazz Music Fest jazz festival will be held for the first time.

The State Duma will discuss the reburial of the body of Lenin © Matthias Krüttgen / Flickr Today, on April 20, two days before the 147th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin, a bill on the burial of his body was submitted to the State Duma, which has been in the Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow for 93 years. This was reported by Interfax with reference to one of the initiators of the draft law of the project Vladimir Sysoev (LDPR).

Putin urged to expand access to historical archives © Press Service of the President of Russia a meeting of the Russian Organizational Committee "Victory". Moscow, Kremlin, April 20, 2017 Today, April 20, at a meeting of the Russian Organizational Committee "Victory" in the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin said that materials from historical archives should be widely available on the Internet.

The art project was opened in support of people with developmental disabilities The Charitable Public Organization “Prospects” launched the artistic and documentary project “Deep inside”, dedicated to people with severe multiple developmental disabilities. Texts, photographs and video materials of the site deep-inside.me talk about the life of children in a neuropsychiatric boarding school No. 3 in Peterhof. “Most of our heroes cannot speak and does not leave the boarding school.

- Tell us a little about yourself. Why did you leave Iran? Did your family emigrated with you? - As you probably already know, I moved to the UK at the age of 19. He left, in general, in order to see the world and somehow expand its horizons-and in London we had relatives, so here I, as it were, did not come to an empty place. And the parents remained in Iran. But they often come to me. - And what do they do - and what did they do before the revolution?

GTSIA holds a competition for sound artists and composers © David Foster / Calvin College Astrophotography Projects Until May 15, the State Center for Contemporary Art as part of the State Museum and Exhibition Center of Rosiso (GCSI) accepts applications from sound artists and composers to participate in his new project “Audiovisual Experks”. The first session of the project - “Red Space” - is devoted to sound representation of red.

The Prize "Poet" was awarded to Maxim Amelin © Anna Pravdyuk / Literary Masters CWS April 19 in the house-museum A.N. Tolstoy in Moscow, the jury of the Russian Literary Prize "Poet" announced the laureate of 2017. He was the poet Maxim Amelin. It is reported by Echo of Moscow . The award ceremony will be held on May 31 in the Central House of Writers. Maxim Albertovich Amelin (b. 1970) in 1991-1994 studied at the Literary Institute named after A.M.

Winners of the school competition "Memorial" will be awarded in Moscow © International Memorial Special topic of the competition of this year - “One hundred years of the Russian Revolution”. In the photo: the Presidium of the First Council of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies.

In March, the current stars of the St. Petersburg underground Shortparis released the second album "Easter" , consisting of nine songs with pulsating melodies and theatrical vocals that do not allow attention to weaken for a minute. Shortparis are known for their love for performances. For example, they played a concert in a grocery store, protesting against the transformation of art into goods. Randomedly interviews with group members took place on Easter on April 16.

David Lynch's cult films will be shown in Russian cinemas © Russian World Vision From May 18 to 20, the company Russian World Vision is arranging in dozens of cities throughout Russia David Lynch’s films “Golov-Lastik”, “Twin Pixation: Through the Fire” and “Highway to nowhere”, which have not yet been released in the cinema rental in our country. “This is the great news for me! And I hope you enjoy watching these films. Meanwhile, I wish you, all the Russians, all the best!

Awarded "Golden Masks" © Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation On April 19 on the stage of the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko hosted the awarding ceremony of the winners of the National Theater Prize "Golden Mask". In the nomination “Drama / performance of a large form”, “Russian Roman” (dir. Mindaugas Karbauskis, the Mayakovsky Theater, Moscow; finalist of the Prize “Nail of the Season”).