“On September 10, 2019, from 8 hours 30 minutes in Izhevsk, Albert Razin stood in a single picket in front of the building of the State Council of the Udmurt Republic, protesting against the disappearance of the Udmurt language. Razin held two posters in Russian in his hands.

The residence program of the Year of Music of Russia and Great Britain began © Veronika Belousova Participant of the program, composer and pianist Igor Yakovenko The British Council and the Department of Culture and Education of the British Embassy in Moscow in collaboration with the PRS Foundation and an independent initiative Rush launched a program of musical residence in the framework of the Year of Music of Russia and Great Britain.

This year, Mikhail Pletnev closed the large festival of the Russian National Orchestra with Symphony Dancing - the last composition of Rachmaninov, written in America at the beginning of the Second World War, in the final of which the formidable medieval sequence of Dies is heard IRAE . They were chosen by the Persimfance session - an orchestra without a conductor, arguing that even such a difficult partite can be handled independently.

The international festival of short meters will be held in Moscow © SHNIT Worldwide Shortfilmfestival Hard frame from the movie "Fuel" From October 17 to 27, Moscow will join the 17th International Festival of Short Films SHNIT, which will simultaneously take place in seven countries of the world. The venues of the festival in Moscow will be the cinemas “Illusion” and “Pioneer”, cinemas of the Moskino network and the Garage Museum of Modern Art.

Harold Bloom died © CBC 14 October in New Hayven (Connecticut) at the age of 89, an American historian and cultural theorist, literary critic, literary critic, biblicalist and religious scholar Harold Bloom died. It is reported by The New York Times . Harold Bloom was born in 1930 in New York, in 1952 he graduated from Cornell University, studied with the researcher of poetics of romanticism Meyer Howard Abrams. In 1955 he defended his thesis at Yale University, where he worked all his life.

Yaroslavl region accepts "museum retrite" Until October 20, on weekends in the Yaroslavl Region, the Museum Retrit travel festival takes place, which represents 50 private and 6 state museums in 14 territories of the region. The venues of the festival: Yaroslavl, Gavrilov-Yam, Myshkin, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov, Rybinsk, Uglich, Tutaev, All, Voronino, Vyatskoye, Uchma, Borisoglebsky, Kiryanovo.

Booker for the first time in the last 27 years was awarded to two authors at once On October 14, in London, the jury of the Buker Prize announced the results of the 2019 season. For the first time since 1992, it was decided to divide the award between two laureates - Margaret Etwood (Canada) and Bernardin Evaristo (Great Britain). According to The Guardian , after five hours of discussion, the jury could not opt ​​for any one candidate from a short list of award.

Jager Music Awards 2019 © Jager Music Awards Today, October 15, the annual Independent Music Prize Jager Music Awards has announced a short list of 2019 nominees, among them Shortparis, Cream Soda, Face and Kedr Livanskiy.