The dates of the Moscow International Kinfestival were announced © Moscow International Film Festival Today, December 8, the organizers of the 44th Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) announced the dates of its holding. The festival will be held from April 21 to 28, 2022. According to the press service of the MMKF, the acceptance of applications for participation in competitive programs begins on December 13 .

The new issue of the magazine "Un -Most Service" (5/139) is devoted to the topic that many are on the lips today: the fate of today's democracy, which - as it is obvious in the series of elections from American to recent German - is experiencing difficult times. As experts and observers almost unanimously claim, democracy in its already ordinary representative form ceased to work without fail. What should replace her? One of the popular options is deliberate, that is, advisory, democracy.

Vladimir Orlov died © Boris Kutenkov / Facebook On the night of December 6, in Moscow, at the age of 57, the publisher and researcher of modern Russian poetry Vladimir Orlov died. It is reported by Gorky . Vladimir Igorevich Orlov was born in 1964, received an economic education, began to engage in collecting and publishing poetry after moving from Togliatti to Mosvka in 1993.

The International Modern Dance Festival begins in Yekaterinburg © Sverdlovsk State Academic Theater of Musical Comedy Scene from the play “I am a seagull” (“Eccentric-Ballet Sergey Smirnov”) Today, December 8, in Yekaterinburg, the X International Festival of Modern Dance “On the Brief” opens. 13 dance companies from Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Kaluga, as well as from European countries, will take part in it.

The “Factory” exhibition is opening about television programs for children © Katarina Pirak Sikku From December 9 to February 27, the center of creative industries “Factory” in Moscow will take place of the collective exhibition of Swedish artists and writers “Tele-trash: from children's television to modern art and literature” dedicated to children's television projects of the 1960s and 1980s.

Jager Music Awards 2021 will be awarded in Moscow On December 11, the Blackout Moscow Club will host a ceremony of presenting the Jager Music Awards for the results of 2021 independent music. Start at 20:00, the entrance is free by preliminary registration . Starting from this season, Jager Music Awards, awards are awarded not only to musicians .

The Museum of Music revives the Festival "Alternative" © provided by the press service of the Russian National Museum of Music From 17 to December 20, for the first time in 20 years, the Russian National Museum of Music in Moscow will be held the Alternative Modern Music Festival. This was reported by the press service of the Russian National Museum of Music.

- Last year, for the first time in 22 years, the organizers of the Return festival, one of which - you, decided not to conduct it and, accordingly, not to start a crowdfunding campaign. This year is not so scary that everything will break due to pandemia? - I even forgot what the situation with Pandemia was last year at that time. I remember that there was a moment when the concerts seemed to begin, but everything was very incomprehensible.

In the recreation center, the dawn will be presented "The phrasebook of the new reality" © Individuum On December 13, in the Moscow Space of the Palace of Dawn, the publishing house Individuum will host a collection, edited by Polina Aronson “Complex feelings. The phrasebook of a new reality: from Abuez to toxicity. " Start at 19:30, the entrance is free of registration . The presentation will take part: Polina Aronson, sociologist, journalist, author of the book “Love: Make yourself.

The Bombbor publishing house published an autobiographical documentary book of the curator and writer Sergei Odovnov “I do not see the text”, telling how he almost completely lost his vision at 17, and then found it.

Theater "Contemporary" launches its own film club © provided by the press service of the Theater "Contemporary" On December 16 and 18, the first shows of the COLOSSEUM film club of the Moscow Theater "Contemporary" will be held. According to the theater’s press service, the name of the project refers to the past “Contemporary”: before the theater received a building with ancient columns on Chistoprudny Boulevard, the Cinema “Coliseum” was located here.