The program of the International Memorial for October © International Memorial The international historical, human rights and charitable society "Memorial" announced a program of events for October 2017.

Mikhail Baryshnikov supported Kirill Serebrennikov Today, October 2, the ballet dancer, actor and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov published a letter in which he expressed solidarity with the artistic director of the Gogol Center Theater, director Kirill Serebrennikov, under house arrest. At the request of Baryshnikov, who does not use social networks, writer Boris Akunin posted a letter on his Facebook. Colta.ru gives the text of the letter completely: Dear Cyril!

The Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission voted for the deprivation of the Medinsky degree © Press Service of the RVIO Today, October 2, the Expert Council of the Supreme Certificate Commission (VAK) on history decided to support an application for the deprivation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir of the Medinsky degree of the Doctor of Historical Sciences.

This year, the famous Cuban artist Tanya Bruger presented her theater debut based on the play by Samuel Becket “The End of the Game” - a production with the participation of two main actors, played in a clinically white space before peeping through a slot in a curtain by the audience. The performance was recently demonstrated at Festival d'Automne in Paris.

“I’ll become completely new now,” the vocalist of the Moscow Indie-Pop Group Mana sings ISLAND Alexey Doronin in her new video "Megavatt". And thereby, perhaps, it hints that a new stage has begun in her life - mana ISland recently released a mini-album “will pass” with songs in Russian, recorded a joint track for the new Bi-2 album and think about collaborations with Russian rappers.

Every fourth resident of Russia does not know about Stalinist repressions © Danzig Baldaev VTsIOM: Among the investigation methods for the detainees for political reasons, intimidation and blackmail (21%), physical torture (19%), psychological manipulations with the mention of loved ones (14%) were used to sleep at night (11%), tortured bright light (9%), and every second (54%) believes that there were all the transcounted methods and psychological impact Three quarters of the All-Russian survey

Vivek Holste is a famous Swedish feminist, one of the ROKS leaders - the Swedish association of shelters for women undergoing domestic violence. Kholst entered into the struggle for female rights back in the 70s, and now works on a volunteer basis in one of these shelters in the south of Stockholm. From September 25 to September 30, a group of Russian social workers visited Sweden, to whom Holst told how work with victims of domestic violence was organized in the country.

Kraftwerk will perform in the Kremlin © Kraftwerk - 3D Concert / Facebook On February 13, the Kraftwerk concert will be held in the Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow. This was reported by the site of the Kremlin Palace . The last time the German group performed in the Russian capital 13 years ago, in June 2004 the concert was held at the Luzhniki Sports Palace. In May 2017, Kraftwerk released their second official concert album, 3-D Der Katalog .

Larisa Volpert died On October 1, literary critic Larisa Volpert died in New York at the age of 91. It is reported by Postimees . Larisa Ilyinichna Volpert was born in 1926 in Leningrad, in 1949 she graduated from the Romano-German branch of the University of Leningrad. Candidate (1955), Doctor (1989) of Philological Sciences. The USSR champion in chess (1954, 1958, 1959), grandmaster (1978).

On September 30, the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrova turned 80. Colta.ru celebrates this date with a great conversation with him, held back in September 2014 (it is important to know when reading the final), but published for the first time. Sylvestrov is a leisurely composer, and we also offer it to read it slowly, so we release this material in three episodes (read the first episode here , the third - here ).

The scholarships of the Brodsky Foundation © Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fund The Foundation for Memory of Joseph Brodsky declared the winners of the 2017 scholarships in the nominations “Poetry” and “Visual Art”. They were poets Igor Bulatovsky and Ekaterina Sokolova and artist Alice Joffe.

L.N. Gumilev not only professed Orthodoxy all his life, but at one time (in the 1930s) he even intended to become a priest, realizing that such a “choice of profession” would become the beginning of the path to Christian martyrs. If he found out that one of the people close to him was not baptized, then he tried to convince him or to accept the Orthodox faith.

On September 1, 1939, Astrid Lindgren - first a housewife, and then an intelligence official, whose responsibilities included per lustration of foreign correspondence - began to regularly record the events taking place in the family and the world. The “military diary”, consisting of the seventeen notebooks, breaks off in 1945, after the publication of the book about Peppy of the Long Chugs-an unexpected event that has forever changed the fate of the writer.