Dina Goder Director Yuri Urnov Russian Youth Theater Moscow (Photo: Victor Bazhenov ) The new performance of the Youth Theater is aimed primarily at teenagers - high school students, 14-16 years old. They fill the hall. At one time, Jean Anouilh composed a modern version of the myth about Orpheus in the play “Eurydice” and usually interpreted this plot for himself as a story about the love of a pure, straightforward and uncompromising boy and a weak, vicious, but beautiful girl.

Joshua Hammer. They, true Aryans, had to populate Europe and manage it Solemn ceremony: SS officer gives the name of the Lebensborne baby. (Photo: Bundesarchiv) From early childhood, Helga Karau did not leave that something was wrong with her. Helga was born in Nazi Germany at the very beginning of the Second World War, and about the first years of her life, she remained vague memories - an exquisite atmosphere, important persons in stitched uniforms, life in contentment and comfort.

Lev Rubinstein Each of the mentioned books of different genres - from detective stories to poetry collections - is worth reading. Or flip through. Or at least find out that it exists The bookstore of the OGI Project club is the only one in Moscow where you can shop almost around the clock. (Photo: Alexander Sorin ) Today, only the laziest of all those who write about Boris Akunin does not begin his writings with the fact that only the laziest today does not write about Boris Akunin.

E.P. The principles of peaceful coexistence with the Pashtun mountaineers were laid down by the same Lord Curzon, who later sorted out relations with the Soviet authorities The tribal zone is the brainchild of three Anglo-Afghan wars, in which the British fought for access to Central Asia and the Caspian Sea.

Yaroslav Sedov Concert Hall named after Tchaikovsky. Moscow (Photo: Natalya Loginova ) The idea of ​​the festival "New Age of Russian Pianism", organized by Igor Belyaev's production agency "Firebird" and the Philip Morris company, was to present to the public the younger generation of Russian pianists who can prove that our piano school is still strong.

Irina Rosenberg Investments flowed into the domestic production of vegetable oil (Photo: Max Novikov ) Last year, a record harvest of sunflower seeds was harvested in Russia - 4.2 million tons. This is 1.2 million tons more than in 1998, and almost a million than in 1990. One of the reasons for such a rapid growth in the production of seeds, apparently, is due to the fact that in the second half of the 90s, the seeds became a profitable product of export.

Igor Pomerantsev Due to my duty, I had to cut AM Pyatigorsky with a razor more than a hundred times. It would be an exaggeration to say that he bravely endured these painful - for me - procedures. No, he simply had no idea about them. I, putting a merciless hand on my heart, experienced not only torment, but also pleasure.

Evgeniy Popov It so happened that many years ago I found myself in the modest company of ordinary teachers of the famous Peoples' Friendship University. black African freedom fighter Patrice Lumumba, to whose death the Soviet people responded with the following emotional, sincere song expressing indignation: Ubili, Gadi, Patrice Lumumbu, And Chomba is dancing a rumba in a tavern...

Olga Gerdt Vilnius (Photo: Vladimir Lupovskoy ) At first, four years ago, the organizers of the festival in Vilnius only wanted to introduce the public to modern dance from the Baltics. Today the festival covers almost the entire Northern European region. Over the course of a week, more than forty projects from Scandinavian countries, Iceland, Poland, Denmark, France, Germany and Russia were shown in Vilnius.

Stanislav F. Rostotsky Director Wes Craven Film and Video Rights - West Video (Photo: West ) The first Scream was released four years ago and not only became the highest-grossing horror film of all time, but was immediately hailed as a groundbreaking work. Moreover, the revolutionary in this case was not the patriarch of the genre, director Wes Craven (The Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Vampire in Brooklyn), but the young and then unknown screenwriter Kevin Williamson.

Irina Andreeva (Photo: Yuri Feklistov ) The Liskinsky creamery is considered the largest in the Voronezh region. There are two large workshops for processing sunflower and soybeans. True, the latter, designed to process 500 tons of soybeans per day, is often idle - Russia has little of its own soybeans, except that sometimes American is thrown in as part of various technical assistance programs.

Alexander Panov Gallery "On Solyanka" Moscow The day before the opening of the large retrospective exhibition, Yuri Savelyevich Zlotnikov turned 70 years old. But the hero of the day accepted congratulations without any enthusiasm - it seems, not because of human fear associated with advanced age, but because of artistic fear. Zlotnikov does not want to be a veteran of the arts, even the avant-garde art of nonconformists.

Yaroslav Sedov The good old operetta has returned to Moscow The cancan in the second act of “Maritsa” is staged as a funny chase of cowboys after zebras (they are portrayed by dancers in striped black and white tights) and looks much more impressive than the “Lido” tour numbers recently shown in Moscow (Photo: Larisa Pedenchuk ) Since the team of participants from the musical “Metro” moved into the Moscow Operetta Theater, the owners of the house have lost peace and sleep.

Fedor Romer Central House of Artists. Moscow (Photo: The British Council ) "Landscape", a traveling "exhibition of the younger generation of British artists" brought by the British Council, is part of the non-profit program of the International Contemporary Art Fair "Art Moscow", opening on May 16. The British simply did not wait for the general opening day, and rightly so - the atmosphere of a noisy marketplace contradicts the measured art of Foggy Albion being shown.