On December 10, the 2016 Nobel Prizes were held in Stockholm on December 10. The Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature Bob Dylan could not attend the ceremony due to "other obligations." The speech that the famous singer wrote was read out by the US Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raja. “I am sorry that I can’t be with you personally, but please know that I, of course, with you with a spirit and proud to get such a prestigious reward,” says Dylan’s speech.

80 years ago, December 5, 1936, the Stalin Constitution of the USSR was adopted In the spring of 1936, Nikolai Bukharin visited Europe. The editor -in -chief of Izvestia did not foresee its inglorious end and diligently played the role of a faithful Stalin. Soon the humiliated Bukharin was waiting for self -opying, shame and bullet in the back of the head at the Kommunarka shot training ground.

The jury of the "Artdocfest" - playwright Alexander Gelman, director-animator Mikhail Aldashin and writer Boris Minaev watched 22 competition films from 10 countries. The Grand Prix of the festival was awarded to Alexander Kuznetsov and his “Liberation. Instructions for use ”(France-Russia, 2016), a film-observation of life in psycho-neurological institutions of the Siberian province.