1. The plot of the year Forbidden songs In 2018, prohibited music and black lists of musicians again appeared in Russia, as in the Soviet Union of the 1984 model.

"Death of Stalin" and "Adventures of Paddington - 2" 2018 was the year of the Ministry of Cmulting of all spheres of cinema in Russia: the Medinsky department initiated the adoption of new amendments to the Cinema Law, actually introducing the state festivals, seized control over the Film Fund and actively intervened in the film distribution, clearing the place for Russian blockbusters.

. . . It was a very strange year. Most of all, 2018 was like a picture of one of the old masters with the image of an expressive night scene: an impenetrable gloom in which the shape of the whole is drowning is occasionally cut through bright outbreaks of light-a kind of “martyrdom of St. Lawrence” Titian, stored in the Venetian church of Santa Maria-Assunta, better known as Gezui.

The Internet takes away bread from TV The year of a large fracture - for the first time in Russia, the volume of the advertising market on the Internet exceeded the volume of the advertising market on TV. The network audience increased by 3% this year and reached 90 million - this is 73% of the country's population.

Summing up the exhibition results of the year, the art department COLTA.RU decided to choose a free format. We offered several active Moscow curators, artists and gallerists to comment on the most interesting, in their opinion, exhibition of 2018, supplementing them with their own projects.

Restrictions on the year Since this year, citizens who have a criminal record for extremism and crimes committed using the media or the Internet have the right to become the founders or the editors of the media. The ban on anonymity in messengers entered into force - each Russian user must be identified by phone number .

Valery Shubinsky Dmitry Kuzmin Irina Kravtsova Andrey Vasilevsky Alexander Ivanov Konstantin Milchin Elena Rybakova Dmitry Volchek Sergey Odovnov Valery Shubinsky poet and literary critic To the list What am I expecting from next year? This is trite, but I want the pain at the next death report to be smoothed out, at least, by the respectable age of the deceased. Although in the case of close people, this does not help. I am waiting for a lot from the departed.

It was not that in the previous years of composers (meaning the living) there were fewer, but they were not so noticeable and existed in a dull type of strictly designated for them. For several years, the situation has been radically changing (at least in Moscow and Perm) - largely thanks to the new repertoire policy of Theodore Krentzis and Vladimir Yurovsky.

Omos Ozmo died © Olivier Fitoussi & Moti Milrod Today, December 28, at the age of 79, the Israeli writer Amos Lake died. It is reported by Haaretz . Amos Oz was born in 1939 in Jerusalem, studied philosophy and literature at the Jewish University at Jerusalem and at the University of Oxford, he was a teacher at a school at Kibul Holda, later taught at the University of Oxsford, Jewish University and College of Colorado.

Kusturina will make a film on Dostoevsky © ASAC Serbian director Emir Kusturitsa is going to make a film according to Dostoevsky’s novels. Filming will be held in China with the participation of Chinese actors. It is reported by RIA Novosti . Earlier, the director said that he is working on the script based on the novels “Idiot” and “Crime and Punishment”.

Dear readers and friends, we have a gift for you for the approaching holiday of two years: the outgoing 2018 and the coming of 2019. Namely - no less premiere of the New Year's short meter of director Boris Khlebnikov "Tolstoy". The script for the film was written by Lyubov Klumenko, it was shot as operator Denis Klebleev, Ivan Lebedev mounted it; Actors are Olga Beshul, Evgeny Sawn, Stasya Miloslavskaya and Alexander Sudarev. The film was shot last winter for the Action charity auction!

Russian writers and journalists congratulated Oleg Sentsov on the New Year © Freedomrussia.org Fifty members of Pen-Moscow and the Free Word association signed a letter on New Year's congratulation to the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year term in the Russian colony on charges of terrorism. Colta.ru gives the text of the letter completely: 12/28/2018 Dear Oleg! This year was your year.

We asked people whose opinion is important and interesting for us to share our personal musical discoveries committed in 2018 - and received a list of the most unexpected music from all over the world. We wish you more all sorts of discoveries in the new, 2019, year!