Joseph Kobzon died © KNK Media Today, August 30, in Moscow, at the age of 80, the pop singer Joseph Kobzon died. This was reported by the radio station "Speak Moscow" with reference to the relatives of the artist. Joseph Davydovich Kobzon was born in 1937 in the city of Yar, Donetsk Region, in 1956 he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Mountain College, where his first public performances took place.

For our country, Joseph Kobzon is a singer of historical significance, and his biography and discography are really a “sonorous chronicle of Russia”: that was the name of a five-volume collection of civilian and patriotic songs once recorded by the Patriarch of the Russian stage.

The Festival "Parts of the World" will be held in St. Petersburg for the second time On September 8, the second festival of world music “Parts of the World” will be held in the Yusupovsky garden in St. Petersburg. The selection of musicians who will perform on the stage of “parts of the world” is engaged in the ideological inspirer and art director of the festival Boris Grebenshchikov.

Katerina Gordeeva and Roman Super shot a film about the “Seventh Studio” case © Amur waves / YouTube Journalists Katerina Gordeeva and Roman Super, as well as Alexander Urzhanov, Viktor Vokhmintsev and Mikhail Orkin, shot and posted free access on the Internet the documentary “How Serebrennikov spent 218 million”, dedicated to the case of the Seventh Studio and Kirill Serebrennikov. “We - journalists Katerina Gordeeva and Super Roman - tried to figure out what is the essence of this matter.

Khodorkovsky stopped support from the TSUR © ONDřEJ NYMEC / Václav Havel Library Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced the cessation of support for the Center for Investigation Management (CUR), who was organizing the last business trip director Alexander Rastorguev, journalist Orkhan Dzhemal and operator Kirill Radchenko, who died in the Central African Republic (TsAB). Khodorkovsky’s statement appeared on the evening of August 29 on the MBH Media website.

As part of the lecture cycle of the Nemoskva project on August 19, the curator of the Chicago Logan Center for the Arts and the Rotterdam Witte de with Center for ContemPorary Art Monica Shevchik, which shared the experience of the interaction of artists and the city, primarily in Chicago, was performed in Tyumen. The lecture cycle was organized with the support of the representative office of the European Union in Russia . Video lectures are provided by the editors of the Nemoskva project.

In St. Petersburg, the eviction of "Memorial" was suspended The Committee of Property Relations of St. Petersburg (KOI) suspended the termination of the lease agreement and eviction from the occupied premises of the charity historical and educational human rights public organization Memorial. This was announced by the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko in response to the appeal of the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Boris Vishnevsky, Interfax reports.

We continue the Best of Reportagen project. These are the best materials from the famous Swiss Longrid magazine. The project is supported by the Swiss Culture Culture Culture Culture . We have already published in this series the reporting of Klaas Relocius “The killer as a orderly” . The author was awarded for him CNN Award as a journalist of the year. Read another relocius text. The events that are described in this report took place in 2012.

Noize MC and Nike Borzov will perform at the family festival in Moscow Famous Russian performers, including Noize MC and Nike Borzova, will take part in the fifth family music festival Kids Rock Fest, which will take place on September 2 in the Moscow Presnya Moscow Park. In addition to Noize MC and Nike Borzov at the festival, the groups “Masha and the Bears”, “The Adventures of Electronics”, “Mr. Twizer”, Easy Dizzy , Vanyn and “The attraction of Voronova” will perform.

Russian Forbes moved to the new owner The Russian version of the financial and economic magazine Forbes has changed the owner, he became entrepreneur Magomed Musaev. According to Vedomosti, he bought a 100% publication from Alexander Fedotov, the owner of the ACMG media group, which since 2015 owned a license for Forbes in Russia.