S. Laskin. The loneliness of the contact person. Diaries of 1953-1998. - M.: New Literary Review, 2019. 520 p. Series "Criticism and essays." ISBN 978-5-448-1152-8 * * * The cardiologist and writer Semen Laskin (1930–2005) was part of the Leningrad literary environment of the 1960s and the 1990s : he knew Aksenov and Granin well, talked with Ehrenburg and Kaverin, he saw Akhmatova-and for fifty years kept a diary from which recently emerged a separate book.

The Edinburgh Festival was canceled © Edinburgh First Today, April 1, it became known about the abolition of the Edinburgh International Theater Festival, planned for August 2020. According to The Guardian , the decision to cancel the festival of its organizers, Fringe Society , was made by Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. According to the head of Fringe Society , Shona McCarthy, this decision was not easy.

The Novosibirsk duo "Buerak" appeared in 2014 with absurd-ironic songs in Russian, ridicuating new cliches of domestic indie rock-due to their ideas about the beautiful copy Joy Division and call this post-man. Oddly enough, the Bueric’s affairs were much better than dozens of groups that they have ironized: their records fall into the hit parades of streaming services, and thousandth halls gather at concerts in million-plus cities.

In the heading “We go to you” Natalia Surnina daily publishes a schedule of world musical life available on the screen of your computer, tablet or phone. Time is indicated everywhere in Moscow.

COLTA.RU continues to publish the project “Hour of the place” - the joint work of the co -founders of the St. Petersburg “ Pos Theater” Ivan Nikolaev and Alena Starostina and the Belarusian playwright Pavel Pryazhko. Every two weeks for one year, Ivan Nikolaev shot watch videos, impartially fixing the “Life of the place” - Russia and Finland, Cities and Nature, Interior and Extermers, various times and seasons.

Tretyakov Gallery posted 47 exhibitions for free access © State Tretyakov Gallery / Yandex. Collapse at the exhibition "George Kostaki. Departure from the USSR allow: icons and avant -garde from the collection of one of the main collectors of the USSR " Today, April 1, the first-time photo archive of 47 exhibitions of the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG), which closed for visiting due to pandemia of the Coronavirus Covid-19, was completely published.

The company "Melody" launched "Musical Antivirus" © Firm "Melody" In the situation of strengthening measures to prevent the distribution of coronavirus Covid-19, the editors of the company Melody compiled two special online playlists under the general name “Musical Antivirus”. According to the press service of the company "Melody", playlists can be heard in the Apple Music application. The first of them is called "Musical Antivirus - 1" .

Pandemia works like a separation machine. Among those whom she, according to experts , is even more rapidly separated than before are Zumers and boomers. Here you can read, for example, about Boomer Remover, known on Twitter, as some young people call coronavirus. The editors decided to find out more about these matters and ordered the text about the pandemia through the eyes of the young one of the authors of the "Dictionary of Zumers" , published on the Colt in December, - Nastya Usacheva.

The team "Vedomosti" supported the change Today, April 1, the Vedomosti business newspaper was voting, following which the publication team chose it with the new chief editor Anfisu Voronin instead of the recently appointed acting Glavred Andrey Shmarov.

Awarded Astrid Lindgren Prize © Alma The jury of the International Memory Astrid Lindgren, awarded for contribution to children's literature, announced the 2020 laureate. He became the author and illustrator of books from South Korea PEK Hu on. According to the Russia-Culture television channel, this year the laureate’s announcement ceremony in the memorial apartment of Astrid Lindgren in Stockholm due to the pandemic of the Coronavirus Covid-19 was held in the absence of the public.

The marathon began on the online platform "Academy of Pushkinsky" © State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin Today, April 1, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Pushrooms) announced the beginning of the second marathon on the educational online platform "Pushkinsky Academy" and opened access to the course "History of World Art. Favorites.