The fifth Sviyazhsk Artel Theater Laboratory, which was held in early August on the ancient island near Kazan, will go down in history primarily thanks to the documentary project “Calling”, where the audience got acquainted with the pupils of the Kazan Orthodox Theological Seminary.

The Moscow Cinema Nights program included 330 film screenings © Cinema Night 2018 Today, August 15, the program of the All -Russian campaign “The Night of the Cinema - 2018” is announced. The curator of the Moscow program was the film critic, the editor -in -chief of the magazine "Art of Cinema" Anton Dolin. On August 25, 330 film screenings will take place at 160 venues in Moscow.

Khodorkovsky and Nevzlin created the Justice for Journalists Foundation The founder of the Open Russia movement, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and entrepreneur Leonid Nevzlin, established an international investigation of crimes against journalists Justice for Journalists.

Mail.ru Group asks to amnesty convicts for reposts © Anton Naumluk / "Radio Liberty" Mail.ru Group, which owns the social networks of VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and My World, sent to the State Duma, the Supreme and Constitutional Courts and the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation appeals with the initiative to decriminalize users in social networks and amnesty of those who were convicted of reposts and “likes”.

Bookscriptor Board List © Bookscriptor Today, August 15, Bookscriptor, a short list of literary prize, is published, which is awarded to beginners. According to the organizers of the award, the Digital -publishing house Bookscriptor , a total of 2050 applications were sent to the competition, 35 manuscripts were included in the long list.

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Festival "Lyubimovka" announced the program More than 40 readers of plays, as well as lectures and master classes will be held from September 1 to 8 in Moscow at the Fyumovka-2018 Festival of Young Drama. The schedule of the festival is given on his website . 646 plays were sent to the competitive part of “Lyubimovka-2018”. From these works, selectors formed the main and Fringe festival program , as well as a list of particularly marked work .

The artist Alan Bogan will conduct Artist-Talk in Kazan On August 24, the Center for Modern Culture in Kazan will host Artist-Talk with the Swiss artist Alan Boinnaya. The beginning at 19:30, at the meeting, Alan Bogan will share the details and results of his residence in Kazan, tells about his artistic method and the research of the connection between light, sound and matter. Alan Bogan was born in 1979 in Switzerland.

Eduard Uspensky died © Albert Truuvyaert / Postimees.ee On August 14, at the age of 80, the writer, playwright and screenwriter Eduard Uspensky died. It is reported by TASS . Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky was born in 1937 in Yegoryevsk (Moscow Region), graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (1961), worked at the Second Moscow Instrument -Machine Plant.

In Nekrasovka, they will give a lecture on the history of women's sports August 16 in the Central Library named after N.A. Nekrasov in Moscow will be a lecture “Are all games open to women? A difficult story of women's sports. ” Sports journalist and costume researcher Ekaterina Kulinicheva and coach, co -founder of a football team for Girlpower girls Alla Filin will talk about the complex moments of the history of women's sports and his modernity.