Aeroflot allowed to transport musical instruments in the cabin © Asim Bharwani / Flickr On February 13, at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Trans-Siberian Art Festival, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets agreed with Aeroflot changes in its rules that allow the transportation of musical instruments as a hand luggage. This was reported by the press service of the Trans-Siberian art festival.

National Competition Beat Film Festival opened applications © Beat Film Festival Until March 31, a set of films of Russian directors will last to participate in the National Competition of the International Documentary Film Film Festival about the new culture of Beat Film Festival 2018. You can submit an application for the competition and find out about the terms of participation in it on the festival website .

Photobookfest 2018 launched a book layout competition © Photobookfest 2018 The International Festival of Actual Photography Photobookfest 2018 opened an acceptance of applications for participation in the book layout competition. According to PhotoBookFest 2018 , authors and creative groups from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are invited to participate. Acceptance of applications will last until April 15 .

The music program of the Platonov festival was announced © Wojciech Wandzel "Kronos-Quartet" On February 13, the musical program of the VIII Platonic Festival of Arts became known, which consists of the sections “Academic Music” and “Music of the World”.

The very fact that Paul Thomas Anderson made a film about the English fashion designer of the 50s is not too inspired. Such films, especially the rental on the eve of the day of all lovers or, even better, on the eighth of March, have their own target audience. And what, in fact, is the matter of a fan of the great PTA before this story, if he is not a reader of gloss and does not understand all this conducting fetishism-a special dressing, manual sewing, unique shades ...

Andrei Teslya: Over the past year, you have published three books, one way or another associated with the Stalinist era - “Socialism in one country”, “Stalin. From Fichte to Beria. Essays on the history of the language of the Stalinist communism ”and“ totalitarianism. Russian program for Western doctrine. " You have repeatedly said that this is part of the results of the study of Stalinism stretching on the twentieth anniversary of the study.

During the days of the annual Davos Economic Forum in the closest to this famous mountain resort of the Bolshaya Theater - Zurich Shaushpilhaus - the premiere of the new project of the Rimini Protokoll Haulgard Haug and Stefan Kagi took place. The performance is called - "The state of the world of Davos." About the new hit of the European scene specifically for colta.ru - Roman Dolzhansky. “If you heard about Davos a hundred years ago, you would have thought first of all about tuberculosis.

Acceptance of applications for participation in the slow reading festival in Germany is opened Until March 1, the Eshkolot cultural and educational project receives applications for participation in the XV festival of slow reading Jerusalem on the Rhine: Jews and Christians in medieval Germany, which will be held in Frankfurt from July 1 to 5. The conditions for participation in the festival and its program are published on the website of the Eshkolot project.

Today, February 14, on Valentine's Day, on the Illuminator.info website, created in support of the parents of LGBT children, a series of short films appeared, in which several mothers are divided by their experience. The films were made by the directors Olga Podvolnova and Inna Omelchenko, graduates of the School of Documentary Cinema and Theater Marina Razbuzhkina and Mikhail Ugarova. Kolta publishes two of them.

The winners of World Press Photo 2018 are named © World Press Photo Today, February 14, at a press conference in Amsterdam, a list of winners of the 61st International Photo Journalism Competition World Press Photo has been announced. This year, the organizers of the competition changed the system of announcements of its results: today the winners are named in 12 competitive nominations, as well as published a short list of the main nomination, “Photo of the year”.

"Pioneer" was fined for "Stalin's sofa" © Bandes Annonces Cinéma / YouTube On February 13, the World Court in Moscow found the Pioneer cinema guilty to the demonstration without a rental certificate of the “Stalin Sofa” painting and awarded it for a fine of 80 thousand rubles. According to Vedomosti , a lawsuit by a cinema was filed by the Ministry of Culture.

The festival "The Age of Changes" will show the movie of the 90s and about the 90s © "The Age of Changes" Frame from the movie "Moscow" The film program of the Film and Media of the 90s “The Age of Changes” was announced, which will be held from February 23 to 25 at the Moscow Cinema Center “October”. The festival program will be the basis of the films - both cult and not known to the general public.