The festival The Great Escape , which took place from May 9 to 11 in the British city of Brighton, is not very similar to the zero-tenders familiar to Europe, giants like Spanish Primavera Sound , German Melt or Finnish Flow . Firstly, the focus is not made on star names (there are a dozen of them among almost five hundred participants), but on promising musicians who are not too famous for the general public.

Two Kommersant journalists are fired for a note about the possible transition of Valentina Matvienko from the post of speaker of the upper house to another job . In protest, the entire department of politics and the deputy chief editor of the newspaper are ready to leave the publication . Journalists publicly declare the pressure of the owner to the editorial office.

The festival of invisible cinema will be held in St. Petersburg Acceptance of applications for participation in the invisible cinema festival, which will be held from June 28 to 30, will be opened in the St. Petersburg bookstore "Words".

The last few years in contemporary art, interest in the independent figures of the late Soviet non -certificate field, which did not rely on the environment of non -conformism and acted as a unit fell out of society. Thinking about how Russian artist today can act in art at his own peril and risk, without like-minded people and outside communities and curators, we decided to talk about this with one of the famous acting single authors, who opened his first exhibition in the early 1980s.

On April 20, the conference "post -syuality: love, violence and democracy" was held in St. Petersburg. At an event with a note of 18+, organized by the programs “Socio-Political Philosophy” and “Gender Research” of the European University in St.