Until last year, Portugal. The Man led a modest life of a hipster indie group from Portland-recorded albums with names like “The Satanic Satanist”, interfering with arts, down and electronics, and tirelessly toured the cities of the United States.

Moscow will present a collection of new German -speaking drama © Goethe-Institut On July 9, in the foyer “Stanislavsky Electric Theater” in Moscow will be a presentation of the Step-5 collection, which includes the works of German-speaking authors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, first represented in the Russian translation.

The author of this text, Alexander Zamyatin, is a municipal deputy of the Zyuzino district. To make a conversation about politics is the best way to spoil the party. Expressing political preferences at work or in the family feast, you risk arousing mutual rejection among interlocutors. We are embarrassed even from mentioning the names of politicians, fearing to slide into a swearing. Politics taboo has become part of domestic etiquette in Russia.

Sweden established an alternative Nobel Prize in Literature © UNESCO More than a hundred Swedish writers, actors, journalists and other cultural figures founded a new academy in Stockholm, which will present the annual literary prize instead of the Swedish Academy.

Mikhail Shemyakin supported the competition "Golden Trezini" The artist and sculptor Mikhail Shemyakin sent a welcoming letter to the participants and the jury of the St. Petersburg architectural and design contest "Golden Trezini". In his letter, the artist living in France recalled how, in 1995, at the request of the first mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak created a monument to the first-builders of the city, including Domenico Trezini.

Performance Meredith Monk will be shown in Moscow and St. Petersburg © Julieta Cervantes / Mhedthmonk.org On July 11, in the cinemas of Moscow and St. Petersburg, a performance of the performance of the legends of the American avant -garde Meredit Monk “Cellular Songs” (Cellular Songs), which became one of the main events of the Diaghilev festival, which recently ended in Perm, will take place. The shows will be held as part of the Caro. Art program. Start at 20:00.

Oleg Aronson became a laureate of the Pyatigorsky Prize © MSKU Oleg Aronon The jury of the literary prize named after Alexander Pyatigorsky determined the laureate of the fifth season (2017-2018). The prize was awarded to Oleg Aronzon for the book “The Forces of the False. Experiments of non -building democracy ”(Publishing House" Falanster ", 2018). In the fifth season, 37 works were put forward for the award.

The State Duma considers the bill on foreign reports © State Duma Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Levin Today, July 3, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy will approve the amendments to the law on media-agents, according to which the authors of these media can be recognized by foreign agents. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to employees of the State Duma apparatus and several deputies.