-Karina, congratulations on the victory, but somehow we need to explain to readers than you are better than Krentzis and Gergiev. - It's not easy, honestly. I realized that everyone voted had different approaches. Some voted for people like me - for gray cardinals, who are not visible, but who make the work of musicians available to the public. I had a different criterion: I voted for those who somehow influenced me-that is, for creative people. - Say for whom? - I voted in all nominations.

Aurora will perform on "wild mint" The organizers of the Festival "Wild Mint - 2020" announced one of the headliners. He will be the Norwegian singer Aurora. The wild mint festival will become part of its summer festival tour of 2020. Aurora - the performer that was spoke about immediately - the first single “Runaway” in just 6 weeks overcame the mark of 1 million downloads on Spotify , and the video scored more than 60 million views on YouTube .

On December 5, the National Research Institute of the World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS), with the support of the representative office of the European Union in the Russian Federation, held the third international conference “Breakthrough Technologies: Calls to the Development of Society and Global Management” (Emertech 2019) .

On December 13–15, a festival of invisible cinema was held at the St. Petersburg Bookstore for the second time in the St. Petersburg bookstore. The curators Darina Polikarpova, Ksenia Ilyina and Anastasia Volokhova collect “invisible films” - never shown by anyone, shot in the table or found by accident, look and discuss them along with directors and spectators without a jury, prizes and budgets. What does an invisible movie look like, who shoots and watches it? Says Darina Polikarpova.

The Festival "Return" will present four concert programs © TV channel "Russia-Culture" From January 8 to 14, the XXIII festival of chamber music “Return” will be held in the small hall of the Moscow Conservatory. There are four concert programs in the schedule of the festival: “Country of the Deaf”, “Feiklor”, “Fathers and Children” and “Concert on the request”.

Goethe-Institute announced a reception for scholarships for cultural figures © Artyom Goloshchapov / Goethe-Institute The Goethe-Institute accepted the scholarships within the framework of the program “Culture in Movement”, which promotes cultural exchange and supports professional meetings of modern culture figures, contributing to its further development in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Germany.

The museum of Moscow will open the exhibition "Family values" © Moscow Museum Anatoly Kokorin. On Moscow Street (snowpipe). 1965. Paper, pencil, watercolor. From December 26 to March 15, the Moscow Museum will host an exhibition “Family Values”, covering 150 years of the history of the development of the family and exploring social forms, which today build love relationships and marital life. The exhibition will show how the family has changed since the 19th century.