At the premiere of the ballet "Nureyev" at the Bolshoi Theater, the authors of the performance bowed in T-shirts with the inscription "Freedom to the director" and a portrait of Kirill Serebrennikov, who staged the performance. As the author of the project “1917. Free history ”Mikhail Zygar, composer Ilya Demutsky, choreographer Yuri Posokhov and others who took the stage called for the release of the director. The Guardian correspondent Sean Walker Nureyev at the Bolshoi Theatre.

In Moscow, supporters of pro-Russian separatists came to the screening of the film “Flight of a Bullet” about the war in Ukraine at Artdocfest and said that the organizers would have “serious problems” at the next screening. A video recording of their conversation with festival president Vitaly Mansky was published by the film's director Beata Bubenets.

"Bad jokes" - an excellent genre of funny videos on Utube A new strange genre appeared in the Russian -speaking Yetube - “bad jokes”. The rules of the game are simple: two participants prepare a list of bad jokes in advance (in the vast majority of cases they are based on uncomplicated pun) and joke their opponent. If he laughed, the author of a joke earns a point. The rapper Lʼone and Alexander Gudkov first walked flush, because both laughed at every joke - and over their own too.

Thousands of parcels that were sent to Russia without indicating the recipient’s tax identification number, as required by new Russian customs rules, are stuck at customs and air carrier warehouses. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the courier service Shiptor. “Both foreign online stores and courier services suffered heavy losses due to the sudden surprise of the Federal Customs Service. <…> No one was ready for innovation,” said Shiptor development director Andrey Lyamin.

Icelandic singer Bjork released a clip for the song “Utopia” from the album of the same name, which was released in November. Björk björk: utopia The action takes place in a very beautiful and strange world located on a flying island. Bjork, apparently, is dressed in an orchid costume, and, as in the video for the song “The Gate” , wears a mask and plays on a flute. The album "Utopia" was released on November 24, 2017. The singer recorded him along with the Venezuelan musician and producer arch.

Lucas Oleniuk / Toronto Star / Getty images Stephen March The Canadian journalist and writer Stephen March wrote a science fiction story using the editor program, which led the entire process using the base of 50 favorite works of the author.

General Nikolai Tkachev, who was named by Bellingcat and The Insider as a defendant in the investigation into the crash of the Malaysian Boeing, said he was considering going to court in connection with these publications. “I’ll consult with the guys here and figure out what to do. Let them get excited now. I'll probably sue them. Let them prove at least something of what they came up with! Tkachev told Novaya Gazeta.

Moscow Vice Mayor Pyotr Biryukov said that the causes of the unpleasant smell, which residents of the city have been complaining about since Friday, can be established within two days. “A huge number of outdoor air samples were taken. <...> Laboratories are analyzing, and in the next two days it will be fully investigated what kind of air it is and what kind of smells it is, ”he said on the air of Moscow 24.

Memory of Leonid Bronery Leonid armored vehicles. 1987. Victor Velikzhanin / TASS On the morning of December 9, after a serious illness, theatrical and film actor Leonid Broneva died . He was 88 years old. Andrei Shemyakin, the head of the Guild of Kinovedes and Film Critics of Russia, told Medusa why Broneva, despite the widespread fame, actually deserved even more. The contribution of Leonid Armor to the Soviet and Russian cinema I would compare with a long echo.

In Moscow, several dozen police officers came to the All-Russian conference "Open Russia", which is attended by 28 members of the movement from different regions. “An anonymous call was received that there is an organization whose activities on the territory of the Russian Federation were recognized as undesirable by the prosecutor’s office,” Interfax quoted one of the policemen as saying.

On December 8, Muscovites in several areas of the city at once - including in the center - began to complain about a sharp unpleasant smell. People described differently what it smells of, but a comparison with the smell of rotten cabbage prevailed. There is no official and final answer to the question of the source of the smell yet, but in Roshydromet they connected the appearance of a stench with treatment out at the Has Overnight Solid Serving Polygon.

Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova took first place in the Grand Prix final in women's singles. The tournament takes place in the Japanese city of Nagoya. Here is Zagitova's performance in the free program: figure skating 2014 B.ESP (HD). Alina ZAGITOVA Alina Zagitova FS — 2017 Grand Prix Final Russian Maria Sotskova took second place, third was Kaitlyn Osmond from Canada.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the end of the war against the Islamic State terrorist organization. “Our forces are in full control of the Syrian-Iraqi border, which is why I am announcing the end of the war against ISIS,” he said. The Iraqi army said that "the entire territory of Iraq has been liberated from gangs of ISIS terrorists," reports the Associated Press.

“Exceptional” teenagers, the story of the most famous picture in the USA and Chinese science fiction writer Li Tsysin The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich tells about one excellent and two good translated novels of December: “Picture of the World” by Christina Baker Klein, “exceptional” American Meg Wulitser and the “task of the three bodies” of the Chinese science fiction writer Li Tsysin. Meg Wuliser. Exceptional. M.: Livebook, 2018. Translation by O. Belyakova, V. Boyko, A.

Roles in the "Seventeen Moments of Spring", "Pokrovsky Gate", "Cherry Garden" and other films and performances. Photos and videos Everett Collection / Vida Press Frame from the movie Simple Things, 2007 On the morning of December 9, after a serious illness, actor Leonid Broneva died, he was 88 years old. He was and remains one of the most famous Soviet and Russian actors.