Announced the long-list of the Pyatigorsky Prize © Literary Prize named after Alexander Pyatigorsky The Organizing Committee of the Literary Prize named after Alexander Pyatigorsky announced a long list of nominees in the fifth season (2017–2018). The list includes 37 works, including “False Power.

1. Eva Polna "Phoenix" Who else will cring the words “we must say goodbye” with the line “smiles and waves the capital”, except Eve Polnah? “Phoenix” - the second solo album of the singer - is called the name of the mythical bird, always resurrected from the ashes. The metaphor is clear-this is the return of the pop star, which spent on work on new songs for several years, and the central theme of the album, dedicated to mainly separation.

Nina Kravitz will come to St. Petersburg at the Present Perfect festival © Nina Kraviz / Facebook According to MIXMAG, the DJ of the year, Nina Kravitz, will perform at the Present Perfect festival and contemporary art, which will be held in St. Petersburg from July 27 to 29. According to the organizers, Roots United + 2A Production , Nina Kravitz has not performed at mass events in Russia since 2015.

In anticipation of the release of the Russian translation of the study of Quentin Skinner, the “origins of modern political thought”, employees of the Center for Respublica, the European University in St. Petersburg, Maria Ponomarev and Nikita Tumanov, remind what the Cambridge School of Intellectual History and what is important for Russia is.

Today, the 21st Festival "Return" by tradition ends with a non-gram "concert on the request". It contains four large ensemble works of Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss, Schenberg and Brahms, which, performed by the most selected instrumentalists, represent a luxurious holiday of chamber muscles. The previous three evenings - again, by tradition - claimed a more difficult statement.

Yesterday, many noted that Putin in the film “Russia” about Valaam compared the mummy of Lenin with Christian shrines. The comparison of the bloody atheist with the martyrs for faith is natural and reflects the ideological processes at the top, in other words, clearly demonstrates that for hellish porridge is cooked in their heads. I have no insiders in the Kremlin, but in order to understand the mood at the top, I just sometimes go to the page of one friend of my friend.

The new director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater was appointed Today, January 15, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky introduced the collective of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (Novat) of the new general director - conductor Aru Karapetyan. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the theater.

Daniil Dondura posthumously awarded the Government Prize in the field of the media Today, January 15, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev presented the Russian government prize in the field of the media. At his suggestion, one of the premiums is posthumously awarded to the long-term chief editor of the magazine "The Art of Cinema" Daniil Dondurey (1947-2017).

Moscow tours "Kolyada Theater" begin © "Kolyada-Theater" Scene from the play "Twelve Chairs" Today, January 15, on the stage of the Theater Center of the STD of the Russian Federation “On Passionate”, the Yekaterinburg “Kolyada-Theater” will open its tenth festival in Moscow by the premiere of the play “Twelve Chairs” in the production of artistic director of the theater Nikolai Kolyada.

The Memorial will host a seminar about Russian bureaucracy © Harper & Brothers Illustration from Thomas Wallace Knox “The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire” (1886) Sociologist Alexei Levinson and political scientist Ekaterina Shulman will perform on January 19 at the International Memorial in Moscow at the seminar “informal and formal in Russian bureaucracy”. Start at 19:00, registration on the website of the international memorial .

There is a fundraising for the completion of the new film by Alexei Fedorchenko On the Internet, the campaign of folk financing of the new picture of director Alexei Fedorchenko “War of Anna”, selected to participate in the Rotterdam Film Festival, is held. To complete the work on the film, it is necessary to collect 1.45 million rubles. Anna's War tells about the tragedy of the Holocaust through the fate of one Jewish girl.

The investigation was completed in the case of the Seventh Studio The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (SK) completed an investigation into the theft of budget funds allocated to the Seventh Studio for the theater project "Platform" in 2011-2014. The amount of damage is increased from 68 million to 133 million rubles.

The first that burned me in the “Reserve”, released by Sergei Zhenovach in the “Theater Art Studio” on the very eve of the new, 2018, year, was a sharp dissonance with expectations. The holiday on the nose, a beautiful author - the performance could be very funny: about the abominations of the “scoop”, of course, - but with such melodramatic piercing, which would quickly forget about abominations and drown in bright sadness.