From the author On July 5, 2018, the general regulations on data protection ( GDPR ) entered into force, providing, among other things, that photographs taken in public places can be published only with the consent of the people depicted on them. Otherwise, the faces, tattoos and other distinctive features should be made invisible.

Elena Paducheva died © Branch of theoretical and applied linguistics of Moscow State University On July 16, in Moscow, at the age of 83, linguist Elena Paducheva died, one of the largest experts in Russian and general semantics. This was announced by the linguist Dmitry Sichichyva.

Opera stars will sing in a pharmaceutical garden © Julialezhneva.com Julia Lezhneva From August 24 to September 1, the Barocco Nights International Opera Open Academy of Open, in which Julia Lezhnev, Dilyara Idrisova, Nian Wong and other world opera stars will take part in the Botanical Garden of the Moscow State University. The festival will open the program "Gandel".

A retrospective AES+F will open in St. Petersburg From July 19 to September 22, the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" in St. Petersburg will host a large retrospective exhibition of the AES+F art group, organized by the Manezh Center together with the Triumph gallery.

In early July, it became known that the Department of Culture of the city did not extend the contract with the director of the Moscow Museum. Alina Saprykina, one of the leading Russian art managers, has held this post since 2013 and managed to make a lot to fully update the concept of the museum development.

Holland Festival introduced the largest premiere of the current festival season-a 24-hour Aus Licht (“From Light”), based on the opera heptology “Light” of the Karlhainz Shtokhausen (1928-2007), divided into three days. Shtokhausen wrote “Light” for twenty -seven years and never heard it entirely, and the current production became the first almost complete embodiment of his plan.