Sergey Kovalev died © International Memorial / Facebook Today, August 9, in Moscow, at the age of 91, human rights activist and dissident Sergey Kovalev died. It is reported by Radio Liberty *.

Young directors are invited to take part in the laboratory "Theater without borders" Until August 30, applications were opened from young director for participation in the new competition-laboratory “Theater without Borders”, which is organized by the Biennale of Theater Arts, the festival “Lessons of directing” and the Federation of creative industries. The competition will be held in Moscow from September 15 to November 26. Applications are accepted on the website of theater border. RF .

“Pink Flamingo” by Alena Sviridova-a sign song for the domestic pop music of the nineties. Well, as a sign-then she was a real hit that was played in the television prime time , and now she will probably enter the conditional twenty or even the ten main clips of the 1990s . If statistics are interesting, the original now has a little more than 2 million views on YouTube : far from the best, but not the worst result, comparable, for example, with the clips of Natalia Vetlitskaya.

Alexander Roitburd died © lotsia.com.ua On August 8, artist Alexander Roitburd died in Odessa at the age of 59. This was reported by the Odessa Art Museum. Alexander Anatolyevich Roitburd was born in 1961 in Odessa, in 1983 he graduated from the art and graphic faculty of the Odessa Pedagogical Institute, In 1993, he became one of the founders of the Odessa Association "New Art", since 1993 he was its art director, in 1999-2001-the president.

On August 11, the next festival of experimental cinema Mieff begins in Moscow. The shows will be held in the CDC, “Garage”, “Illusion”, “Artistic” and the Dawn DC.

The winner of the Berlinale-2021 will be released in Russia under a different name © Silviu Ghetie / Micro Film 2021 Today, August 9, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation issued a rental certificate of the painting “unsuccessful fuck, or crazy porn” of the Romanian director Radu Zhude, who won this year at the Berlin Film Festival. In Russia, a censored version called "Crazy Cinema for Adults" will be demonstrated.

Anna Narinskaya will present a research project in Peredelkino © House of Creativity Peredelkino On August 15, the first chapter of the project “Conditions of material independence” will be presented in the House of Creativity Peredelkino.