The 2020 Cannes Film Festival will not take place, a spokesman for the organizing committee told Variety. The state of emergency due to the coronavirus epidemic in France has been extended until at least July 10. Therefore, according to the interlocutor of the publication, it will be extremely difficult to hold the festival even in the fall. The organizers immediately abandoned the idea of ​​making Cannes virtual.

Lawyer of the Corruption Foundation (FBK) Lyubov Sobol and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak on May 10 on the air of Echo Moscow conducted debates about whether during the epidemic to directly pay people money. At the end of April, the founder of the FBK Alexei Navalny, the founder of the FBC, announced the need to give out to each Russian at the end of April. Sobchak considered it a populism. Sable insists that Sobchak opens against the support of people in a crisis.

The united cinema chain, which includes Cinema Park, Formula Kino, Kino Okko, has not paid a share of the box office receipts of films since January 2020. This was reported to RBC in the press service of the Central Partnership film company. The company did not specify the amount of debt. In January-March, Central Partnership, as a distributor, provided cinemas with nine films, including Kholop, which became the highest-grossing Russian film.

On May 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting on extending non-working days, press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov told Interfax. “The president has a meeting tomorrow,” he said. For the first time, Putin declared non-working days from March 30 to April 5 to reduce the spread of coronavirus infection. Then he extended them until April 30 and May 11. It is assumed that a gradual exit from quarantine will begin on May 12.

The government has allocated 81.1 billion rubles from the reserve fund to support small and medium-sized businesses that have suffered from the coronavirus epidemic . The order was published on the government website. The aid will be provided to those companies that retained at least 90% of their employees. Payments will be made at the rate of 12.1 thousand rubles (the minimum wage) per employee. This money can be used to pay salaries and solve priority tasks.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Prankers break the lessons, teachers are fighting new technologies, laptops are not enough. Why did the transition of Russian schools to online learning turn into failure In late March, Russian schools were transferred to distance learning due to an epidemic of coronavirus.

American mixed-style fighter (MMA) Justin Gaethje defeated compatriot Tony Ferguson in a fight for the interim title of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). This was reported on the website of the championship. Gaethje won by technical knockout. It was assumed that Ferguson's opponent in the UFC 249 tournament would be Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov. The fight was supposed to take place in April in New York, but due to the coronavirus epidemic, it was postponed.

How the digital theater is born on quarantine - and which is better than the broadcasts of conventional productions Rayner Peña / EPA / Scanpix / Leta actress Marsela Lunar during the streaming of the online performance “Frutos Extra ± OS” of the Venezuela National Theater. Karakas, April 24, 2020. During quarantine, theaters have no way to rehearse and play performances.

Tesla has filed a lawsuit against Alameda County, California, which has prevented the automaker's factory from returning to work. TechCrunch writes about it. Tesla founder Elon Musk has also threatened to move the company's headquarters from California to Nevada or Texas. The company planned to return to work about 30% of the employees of the plant in Alameda. It was closed in March due to the coronavirus epidemic, the plant produces batteries for electric cars.

Cinemas in China have been allowed to reopen, subject to sanitary measures. Variety writes about it. Cinemas in China have been closed since late January due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Venues that decide to open should seat spectators at a safe distance, ventilate the premises as often as possible, and regularly clean and disinfect. Spectators are required to wear protective masks.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips, and then talk about the best or at least the most noticeable of them in an ultra -short format. In this issue: several good female records, funny clips from Little Big and Anacondaz, as well as The Weeknd in the series “American Dad”. Subscribe to our updated playlists in Apple Music and Yandex.Music .

The number of cases of COVID-19 in Russia by the morning of May 10 was 209,688, according to the operational headquarters. During the day, another 11,012 cases were detected, of which 5,551 people were in Moscow. In Moscow, 109,740 cases of the disease have been registered in this way. 88 people have died in Russia over the past 24 hours, 2390 have recovered.

The sociologist of religion Nikolai Mitrokhin - about church groups, spheres of influence and what is now happening inside the Russian Orthodox Church Andrey Petrov / Press Service of the St. Petersburg Metropolis / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Barshofius (left in the back of the prayer flight of St.

Film critic Yegor Moskvitin talks about five spring television and graders, which are worth paying attention to. Hulu was an adaptation of the bestseller Sally Runi “Normal People”, Amazon offers an witty story about getting into paradise “Loading”, the heroes of the new Netflix series “At night” are trying to avoid sunrise on an airplane, in “Home Home” on Apple TV+ the youngest journalist appears, and in “terrible tales: the city Dormer from the Game of Thrones plays universal evil.